It’s humpday and time to look ahead to Sunday’s Seahawks’ game against the Titans. Is this a classic trap or let-down game for the Hawks, facing the 1-9 Titans? The Titans have played quite a few teams very close and Mike MacDonald’s Seahawks’ can not afford to lose this. :30- Josh Naylor’s extension with the Mariners was announced yesterdays and if you didn’t love Naylor before, you should definitely love him now! :45- The College football rankings are out and everyone is talking about Alabama and Notre Dame. How did things shake up in week 3?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning everyone, morning, it's some time. Good morning class
leads and gentlemen.
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Speaker 7 (00:56):
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Speaker 1 (01:11):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Good morning, Welcome man. It is the humday edition of
Chucking Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM. Great to have you with us. Ashley Ryan
is here, former Mariner Bucky Jacobson. My name is Chuck Powell.
As we get things started four hours, we hope to
captivate you, keep you here for every single second until
ten o'clock this morning, and then you've got decisions to make.
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But until that time, you are ours, Chuck buck Ashley
with you, and we have a lot to cover today,
a lot of fun different topics to cover today, a
lot of great guests, including Jerry Depoto, who's going to
be joining us live today at nine o'clock to talk
about Josh Naylor, the off season game plan, and so
much more. So been a while since we've chatted with Jerry,
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so we look forward to that today live at nine
o'clock on the radio program. And so with all that
stuff on the plate, I mean, man, I don't know.
I mean, we're gonna we're a fine time to talk
about the Seahawks. But this might be our best opportunity
here right off the top of the show to really
dive in.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It is hump day, after all, and this is.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Where we start diving into the very next opponent of
the Seahawks. I don't even know. Did we even play
this past week? Do we even have a game?
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Game?
Speaker 9 (02:27):
Yeah? Yeah, division game?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, I'm not sure about that. I think we're zero
and zero on the ear.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That's how I.
Speaker 9 (02:34):
Lock it in. Yeah, well you are good at that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So I mean I think I think I've heard that
we've had a pretty good season.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
But to me, it's just zero zero, Yeah, just full
steam ahead, superabat.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Why dwell on?
Speaker 9 (02:50):
Uh huh look at it?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, win or lose. Uh. I put it behind me
because I really need.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
To focus on the next opponent, even an opponent as
you know, presumably soft, as what the Tennessee Titans are.
I mean, that's what we have up next. I mean,
they come up with these terms, and I think that
they are legitimate. I think they carry weight. The trap game,
I think that's a real thing. This is not really
a trap game. A trap game is one of those
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that exists where you're coming off a big.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Game and then you're getting ready for a big.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Game the following week, and you got some soft opponent
in the middle, and because you're coming off the last
you know, fevered game and you're getting ready for that
matchup the next week, maybe you overlook that team.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It's not really that.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
But there's also something called a letdown game, and it
can happen after a win the Rams might have to
face that, and I think that they would face that
if not for the fact that they're playing Sunday night
football against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I think they're going
to be fired up at home and ready for that
game on Sunday night. But you can also suffer that
after a big loss, a tough loss as well, where
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you think, man, we should have had that game, and
the next thing, you know, and we can't wait to
face them again, And the next thing, you know, you
haven't gotten ready for the team with the worst record
in the National Football League, the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And so that's kind of what you're up against.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
And there are other aspects to it, but I'll just
say the Tennessee Titans. You know, I played the Houston
Texans tight here recently, and they're a team that's got
playoff aspirations. They played the Chargers within a score here recently,
So I mean, I guess this is the Lou Holtz
in me. You know, your dad would look Gabe, I mean,
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and that's that's where that's what this week is. And
I don't think Mike McDonald will let them do that.
But this is really the first game We've had like
this all season long. And I'm not sitting here telling
you on a Wednesday morning, on a hump Day that
I'm worried about the Tennessee Titans. But I will say
you better not be putting your feet up on the
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desk against them, because you can lose any given week
in the National Football League.
Speaker 9 (04:58):
You can. I you're right. I don't think Mike McDonald.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I don't think the culture that he's building kind of
allows the that to creep in. Now you're human, and
it's not like the Seahawks players aren't going to know
on their trip to Nashville that. But these guys aren't
really all that good. I mean, they're they're one point away.
They squeak, yeah, they yeah. They probably looked at something
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on the World Wide Web and recognized that these guys.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Are I love the idea that Leonard Williams went into
the library and rented some micro yah, yeah, just to
find out.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
It's like all.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
He takes the big wooden stick with the newspaper dangling
off of it. Do you mind if I borrow this? Yeah,
I'm gonna check this out.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
D Williams.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
These guys are one to nine. Did you know that
we should probably win this one.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I mean they really the one win they pulled out
a one point victory again and the Cardinals. Otherwise they're
zero to ten. I mean, this is they're not good.
The first game they played this year, cam Ward's first
game was against the Broncos. I watched that and there
was moments that he made a couple throws that looked
like a first overall pick, and then there was moments
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that a lot more moments that he looked like a
rookie that was playing on a game that hadn't slowed
down at this point, and unfortunately for him, it kind
of hasn't really looked like the game has slowed down
a whole heck of a lot. When I have one,
I've gotten better. No, when I've watched some of it.
They don't run the ball very well at all. They
don't have big plays, which I think is going to
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be a detriment to them. There's just not a whole lot.
They've kind of traded away a couple decent players that
they had on defense. I mean, yeah, there's you can't
just throw your jock on the field. These are all
NFL players that are fighting for their livelihood and fighting
for their life in the league, and so they're going
to come out and play. But I do think that
you take care of business and you can find yourself,
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you know, halfway through the game, or you know, maybe
three quarters through the game, and all of a sudden,
they will roll over a little bit, just simply because
they're not very good and they know it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
By the way, everybody in movies that uses microfiche, it's
always a female detective. She always has her hair held
up by a pencil. Yeah, and then she always has
a marker in her mouth.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
And then she'll like take the pencil out to write
something even on the markers in her.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Mouth, right and.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Click, and she's got the glasses down.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So that's how I'm picturing Leonard Williams. He's got the
hair to put up, he's got a pencil through it.
Maybe his playbook, I don't know. Women have an amazing
way of holding their hair up with anything. It's like
uncooked spaghetti noodle. They'll just hold it up there. But anyway, Bucky,
I mean, I know you're right. I mean, cam Ward,
particularly when you have the number one overall picking the draft,
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no matter what talent you have to surround him. You
don't expect to have the number one overall pick in
the draft again next year, and you expect that guy
to at least improve. You know that you're putting a
talented player on a bad team, but you at least
want to see improvement out of, if not the team,
the player that you took with a number one overall selection.
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I mean, he's sitting here right now ranked thirty third
and QBR this year. There are only thirty two teams.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
In the next that's not great.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, so that's of the starters.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I mean he's got the I mean he's behind Russell
Wilson in QBR. Now, QBR is just one of many
stats out there and doesn't tell the entire story, but
I don't I don't think anybody wants to be rated
below Russell Wilson right now as a starting quarterback in
the National Football League. And yet there's cam Ward with
six touchdowns and six interceptions. That's all he has on
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the season. So we certainly haven't seen the improvement out
of him. I guess you could make the excuse of
how bad the talent is around him, but I will
say this in defense of Tennessee. I mean, nobody's played
a more murderous schedule this year. They they haven't played Denver,
the Rams, the Colts twice, the Texans twice, the Chargers
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and the Patriots.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
And they kept it close with the Texans last week.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You have to close with a lot of teams.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, that's eight of your ten games, and then your
next two are against the Seahawks.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
And the Jaguars they get no release.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So that's ten out.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Of twelve games. I mean, when the season started, maybe
those didn't look like the best teams in the National
Football League, But now if you look at the standings,
Denver and the Patriots and the Colts are the three
best teams in the AFC. Chargers aren't too far behind,
and the Texans have one of the top two defenses
in the.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
National Football League.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
The only relief they've had in their schedule was Arizona
and Vegas, who they both had to play on the road,
and they beat one of those two teams by one point.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So I mean, I mean, to me, it is a game.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That you do on your pocket schedule put a w behind,
but it is also the National Football League, and it's
also a team that has been playing hard under their
new head coach. They also have an interim head coach
that they're operating under, so everything says the Seahawks should
have no problem with this game. I certainly expect them
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to win. But you better have the right mentality going
into this game because you get tripped up by a
team like Tennessee and all of a sudden, man your season,
which looked like it was humming two weeks eight days ago,
suddenly you're like, oh, we've got back to back losses
and we just lost to the worst team in the
National Football League. It can happen, so it shouldn't happen.
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Right mentality, it won't happen, But you better have the
right mentality going in without a doubt.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I mean, I'm not one that would ever think, you know,
it's okay to overlook a team, and yet this might
be the most confident I would be the most that
I would feel that. I mean, at Dick Fane, I
think took it in fact or fiction. Yesterday the thirteen
point favorite took the Seahawks lay in thirteen points.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I would not do that.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I would do that. I would do that. I think
I don't I don't think this team is. I mean,
they just lost by seven to the Chargers. Chargers are
kind of rudderless right now. The Chargers are not playing
very good. I don't know for sure if Houston is
really as good as they have seemed like they were
going to be a couple of years ago, and still
last year won the playoffs. Now, you're right, they've played
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some tough They've played some tough teams. They've gotten whooped
by a lot of those teams too. I mean the Rams.
You just you just saw you how you measure up
against the Rams, and the Rams took care of business.
I think they beat them by fourteen points. And I
just think this is one where I would imagine they
beat them.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
They beat them by at least two touchdowns. I just
don't think.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And you are the world's leader, and if the one
team's better, I expect them to dominate them that you
are the world's leader in that am I?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, well, yeah, you make most of your picks. You
proudly are.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
The big spread.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
Yeah. Well, I mean I don't.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I just I just sometimes feel like there's two different
classes of teams. This is one of those situations.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
You're right.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Mentality plays a role in it. I'm not one that
would ever think it's okay to just go out and
think bad, we should beat these guys and we'll just
think that. You just think that and all of a sudden,
sixty minutes later, you're on the winning side of things.
I just think that if you have the right culture,
which I think Mike McDonald does, win or lose, this
team has the mindset of it's all about the process,
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get back into the process, and the process is get better,
get better at anything that we didn't do properly, which
them coming off of a loss last week, I think
they're probably motivated to rebound on that. I think it's
the exact opposite of While I see the similarities of
how it can be a trap game, you can overlook it.
It also is an opportunity, like, no, we got to
put our stamp on what the season is and let
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it be known that when we play the worst team
in the league record wise at this point, that we
let it be known that we are we still are
Super Bowl contender.
Speaker 9 (12:51):
There we was talking about just a week ago.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, I mean, matched up one team to the other,
we win this game, maybe not by thirteen, but we
win this game.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
No problem, right, No stress, no stress.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
But and I do believe that Mike McDonald has the
right mentality, and I do believe that he's the type
of guy that will sit there and remind his players
that you don't overlook anyone in the National Football League,
but a lesser team, a lesser mentality than that exposes you.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
And this would normally.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
For a lesser team, a team with a lesser mentality,
this would be a game I would circle and say, hey,
be careful because you're gonna you're gonna be sleeping on
a one and nine football team that's lost five straight games.
And yet they've been competitive against some of those teams
here as of late. And you just don't want to
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lose to the Tennessee Titans, not where you're at in
the season. You just don't want to fall to that
one and nine team, which, by the way, late in
the third quarter was tied with those Chargers. I mean
it was seventeen seventeen with two minutes to go in
the third quarter and they ended up losing by seven.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yeah, they've played well.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
I will say the one thing that I that doesn't
that I'm not overly concerned about them, thinking it's a
trap game or anything like that. Is that they have
the attitudes and the conversations we saw happening after the
loss to the Rams like they were motivated.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
They were, you know, play them again. Yeah, that's true.
That's true. I was just about to.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
Say it, team say and then they were like, oh,
I can't wait to see them again. I was like, wait, No.
They weren't like no, but yeah, to go. If if
they were to lose that game, which I don't think
they're going to. I do think we, as you guys
have both said they have the right coach, doing the
right things, They've got the right mentality.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
But man, that would be like the most.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh it would be yeah, yeah, And I think that's
the I think that's the issue I'm pointing out more
than anything. If you don't have the right mentality, don't
let the Tennessee Titans rock your boat this year. Who
cares if you lost a two on the road by
the Los Angeles Rams and you could actually reasonably carry
the narrative. I think we were better than that team
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on Sunday, and that's as good a team as there
is in the National Football League. I can I can
think there's a reasonable that reasonable takeaway from that game
if you are the Seattle Seahawks. But if you're still
thinking about that game, you can get tripped up by
a team like the Tennessee Titans, and so things like
I mean, this was brought up on yesterday show. If
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Gray's Able's healthy, I'm playing them. I'm not sitting any
players because I'm just gonna walk through this thing. Number one,
because I don't want to take anything for granted.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And then number two, I certainly don't want.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Sam Donald getting you know, I don't want to weaken
the wall in front of Sam Donald. I have a
left guard that hasn't given up a sack this entire season.
If he's healthy, he's ready to go. As an example,
I'm playing him against the Tennessee Titans. I want to
take the Tennessee Titans at least that seriously and not
just think this is a win. And if you start sitting,
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you know, questionable in guys that you would play other wise,
that's the trap that I think that you fall into.
So if Mike McDonald has the right mentality, if he
breathed that into his clubhouse on the airplane ride there,
in every single facet of the game.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, we shouldn't have anything to worry about.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
But man, you start sitting guys that are healthy enough
to go because you're being careful for them for the
following week, That to me is the mentality that gets
you in trouble in games like this.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Without a doubt. Yeah, I don't think that they typically
do that. It's if it's a if it's one of
those where it's questionable, I maybe can I mean literally,
if it's if you can go, if they they're gonna
they're gonna play him. If it's one of those, well
I think I could tough it out, even it you know,
I might only be seventy percent, then maybe you do
kind of say, hey, we hopefully can figure out a way.
I don't want I wouldn't want them to do that,
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because you the last thing you want to have happen
is you go into it and is regardless of how
good their mentality, regardless how good Mike McDonald is of
getting them rallied for the task at hand, if you
find yourself, you know, midway through the fourth quarter in
a three point ball game, there's no pressure on them.
They're just like, oh, we can snipe or we can
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you know, really kind of dash this team's hopes, at
least for this week. You don't want to find yourself there.
I just don't think that they will. And yet we
shall see if they how they make any of these decisions.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I do think that you're right, and I certainly hope
that you're right. It's just, you know, have your mind right, right,
if you're a Seahawk, have your mind right. And I
do trust that Mike McDonald will get them there. But
you just don't want to lose this game.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
No, you really don't.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
And I think as far as Gray's abel goes to,
you know, assuming that he's if it's any sort of
question going into the game, like, oh yeah, he could
probably play suit him up, keep him on the sideline.
Maybe he never has to go in, but at least
you've got him there so that you're not acting like
you're overconfident about things.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
All right, Well, let's find out what we got on
tap for you today here on Chuck and Buck.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
What's on?
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Tell? What's on?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Te Seahawks at Titan Sunday at ten o'clock. The brand
new week of the National Football League gets started tomorrow.
It will be Buffalo at Houston. There was a thought
that CJ. Stroud might play in this game back from
the concussion that he suffered a couple of weeks ago.
That is not the case. They have not conclet They
have not cleared CJ. Stroud from concussion protocol.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And so it'll be Davis Mills getting the start for
the Texans tomorrow against Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills.
Some other NFL notes that you might find interesting as
we really come down to the nitty gritty in our
fantasy leagues. If nothing else, Jamar Chase is going to
be out for this game. He did appeal the suspension
for spitting on Jalen Ramsey. The NFL said, nope, nope,
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We're not gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
That's ridiculous, thinks Jamar. Yep, no spitting in the league.
I'll tell you that right now, Chase.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And so the Bengals will be without Joe Burrow and
Jamar Chase against the New England Patriots this Sunday. Aaron
Rodgers might play, by the way, Yes, he did do
something injurious yeah to his wrist, but it's not going
to require surgery, and there is a chance that he
might rally and play for Pittsburgh against the Bears, and
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Josh Jacobs Ashley's.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Concerned with this.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
He left the game with the Green Bay Packers this
past week. It looked bad, and yet they did the
X rays and found out it was just a bruise.
So he might even go this week for the Packers
against the Minnesota Vikings. All things to keep track of
college football playoff rankings came out on a Tuesday. Notre
Dame ended up a little bit ahead of Alabama that
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fell after their loss to Oklahoma, and Miami is creeping
ever closer. Those are the three big topics of conversation, Alabama,
Notre Dame, in Miami, and we'll have that conversation later
this hour. Dogs are getting ready for the fighting Jerry
new ISILs of UCLA. That'll be this Saturday. Cam Cleveland
will join us at eight o'clock today to discuss it.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Coogs have a national.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Interest game this weekend. They're taking on James Madison, who
has a legit shot of making the playoff this year,
and keep getting overlooked by the committee. They keep jumping
two loss teams ahead of James Madison in the process,
but eventually you might run out of two loss teams
and have no choice. The Coogs could soil James Madison's
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plans of possibly being the ultimate underdog in the playoff
where they win. This Saturday, college basketball UDUB was taken
to double overtime by Southern, which was a bit of alarming,
but they did end up winning ninety nine to ninety three.
There are four to one on the young season, and
they won't play again until November twenty seventh. Major League Baseball,
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there was a trade of significance last night. The Baltimore
Orioles acquired Tyler Ward from the Angels in exchange for
Grayson Rodriguez, once considered as good a pitching prospect as
there was in Major League Baseball, but injuries have sort
of steinied his young major league baseball career. The Angels
are gonna roll the dice on possibly getting an ace
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if they can keep them healthy. Meanwhile, the Orioles wanted
an offensive veteran right now, and so that was the
trade that went down. But the bigger MLB news yesterday
certainly happened right here in Seattle. Josh Naylor introduced with
his brand new five year contract with the Seattle Mariners
we'll hear from Josh next and talk about it on
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Chuckin'buck Sports Radio ninety three point three KJARFM. All are
sitting there thinking baseball season is over and sitting around
and you're duff. You're missing out on some content right
now at sports Radio ninety three point three KJR dot
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com you can find a brand new article about the
Mariners off season, or crystal Ball forecast or my personal
crystal Ball forecast for the Mariners off season. You can
check that out in written form if you need audio form.
Andrews Hurst and I have recorded this week's latest episode
of Stove, where we not only go over the crystal
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Ball forecast, but of course it starts with Josh Naylor,
who yesterday made it official, he with his smiley face
press conference with the Mariners. He actually made it official
on Monday, signing a brand new deal five years ninety
two point five million dollars to remain the Mariners first
basement for the next half decade. And yesterday, the very thoughtful,
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the very eloquent Josh Naylor conducted a press conference alongside
Jerry to Poto, Justin Hollander and others. And so we
talk more about nails here today on Chuck and Buck
in the Mornings, Ashley Bucket, Chuck with you.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Good to see him all smiley and happy up there.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
I think I would.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I two would be very happy if I knew ninety
two and a half million dollars for coming to me
to play the game that I love. But nevertheless, it
was nice to see just how excited he was to
be a Mariner yesterday.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Yeah, I mean, I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I think if somebody just says, hey, hell, one hundred
mill or so sound give or take, you know, over
the next few years. Okay, yeah, I think I'd be
pretty smiley too, But I do genuinely. I mean, you
hear what he says. And he loved it here. He
was accepted here. The thoughts and I was never traded
at the big league level, but I know guys that were,
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and even guys that are trading at the minor league level.
There's a thing in your head that goes on of well,
do they just.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
Not want me?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Or they do they really want me? Obviously, in this situation,
he knew that the Mariners were. He was sought after
by other teams. He was a trade deadline kind of
a hot pickup that a lot of teams were gonna want,
and so you go move to another team. But then
you got to all of a sudden like, Okay, how
is this going to go? How am I going to
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be accepted? As you know, what's this team going to
be like? And for a guy like him that I
think prides himself on being a good teammate and wanting
to pour everything he has into his team and in
return get something back from them as far as energy
and the will to want to win, I think that
it was it was ass I think that they just
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matched one hundred percent on it, and it turned out
on the field that he was a huge acquisition as well.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Well.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I mean, he just.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Has such a unique personality. I don't think there's anybody
like him, no in Major League Baseball or in any
professional sport that I've come across. He's so very thoughtful,
and when he speaks you find out just the lengths
that he goes to to think about baseball. But then
he never offers you anything about his personal life. Yeah,
(24:50):
I mean even to the point where he ordered Mariner's
pr not to even mention that he had a baby. Yeah,
even though everything went well and really, we just wanted
to make sure everything went well with it. I mean, sure,
we wanted you back on the field because it was crucial,
but we really just wanted to find out that everything
went well. And he didn't even want them to reveal
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that didn't even want them to reveal the gender of
his child during the course of that week until on
his terms he could announce it, which ended up being
in the form of a fancy blue belt to tell
us that it was a little baby boy. So he
just he keeps things close to the best. So when
you have somebody that thoughtful, that interesting, and that careful
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about what he does provide, you really don't know what
he's thinking.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Is he going to stay? Did he like it here?
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Are we going to.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Find out that the whole time he just couldn't wait
to get back to Canada, even if it had to
be DH or we're going to find out that his
lifelong dream was to be a Pittsburgh Pirate.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I mean, do you have any We didn't have any
until he signed.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I didn't know what to expect from Josh Naylor, but
apparently in his head it was never really a doubt.
He was asked in the press conference yesterday. Why so quick?
And the process to sign a deal? Why didn't you
play it out?
Speaker 7 (26:13):
I mean, I really enjoyed every single moment I was here,
from the players to the head office of the coaching staff,
to the rest of the you know, the staff, the
kitchen crew, the clubbus managers, and it was just everything
was so awesome. I had such a blast being a
part of everything, getting to know players on and off
the field, and just competing with them. Obviously we fell
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a little bit short, but you know, I can't wait
to run it back with them because they deserve this,
the city deserves it, each of each player's family deserves it.
I can't express how much fun I had on this team.
It was unbelievable, like tears of joy kind of unbelievable.
And yeah, I just I love competing and competing with
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this organization was probably one of my favorites I've ever
had in my career. So I'm very, very blessed. I
played with some really, really great teams. I was fortunate
enough to play with my brother. That was probably the
best thing ever, you know, being able to play with
your brother and then coming here. It was kind of
a whirlwind of years out in Arizona and then ended
up getting traded, and getting traded is not easy at times,
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and you've got to move stuff around. You gotta worry
about family and stuff. But they just accepted me right away.
They helped me in every single way they could. Teammates
embraced me right away, fans embraced me right away. And
you know, at the end of the day, they deserved
that that world series that we're shooting for here. And
I can't thank the fans enough for supporting me as
much as they do. I love them and I hope
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they love me, and I just go out there and
compete for them every single night, and you know, God
willing bring a world series of this to the city.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
That's what you felt watching them, for sure. You were
like you wanted to you thought that's what you were watching.
You wanted to believe that's what you were watching. But
until I mean throwing out the those weird Instagram things
like hey, cal, sure was fun, best of luck, Bud.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yeah, you know it's been real. Yeah, stuff like that
through y'all throws you off a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
And so until he signs that dotted line and announces
in a press conference what he just announced.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
You don't know for sure, but it was it was
great to hear. Yeah, I mean, the.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Dude just seems like he's real. Like he's real and
the part of him being an ultimate competitor that all
he really wants to do is win. Now, everybody that
plays any sports they want to win. They want to
win a lot, but all they want to do is win. Like,
if it doesn't if it means i need to go
steal third, even though I'm the slowest guy in the league,
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I'm gonna go do that. Like, there's just some people
that just don't have all of what it takes between
the years and how and then understanding what it is
they bring to the table as an athlete to be
able to actually put everything everything into helping your team win.
And I think he's one of those guys that, you know,
baseball is different because you don't have to look like
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a certain thing to be a good baseball player. You
can have different body types and yet you just have
to understand that have a good baseball like you.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
And I think that his is off the charts.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
He talked about the fan embrace, and so he actually
expanded on that later on in the press conference. They are.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
They're so cool and super supportive of every in every
single way. They they're, like I said, they ride or
die fans. They want to see you win. And I
feel like when we win, we went together as like
the x amount of thousand that are in the crowd,
and then also the twenty six on the field, the
coaching staff that had office, like we all went together,
which is so cool and I feel like it's very
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rare to have that around the league. But this fan
base is absolutely incredible. I have nothing but great things
to say about them, nothing but.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
Love for them.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
I cherish my shoes and I think a lot of
people know that, But towards the end of the year,
I started to give like my shoes away to like
these little kids, just to like see them smile and
make them happy. And you know, I hope they appreciated it,
and I think they did, and I just I want
to continue to make them smile, whether it's with my gameplay,
whether it's the little gestures of signing autographs, giving away
some apparel. But they are they're a heartbeat, really and
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I love playing for them, and you know, playing with
them on the field, they're they're really with us on
the field. The energy they bring it helps us, you know,
create runs, create kind of cast in the base path
when you strike a guy out. This whole place is
rock and it is just unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I mean, he did show up at a time where
everything was already switched on, so he didn't really experience
anything that wasn't a playoff race or a playoff game.
But that said, I'll say this, I've been around a lot,
and I've seen a lot of different fan bases, and
some of those that have been considered the best been
around Saint Louis Cardinal fans, who are known for not
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just cheering for their own guys, but they'll give standing
ovations to other guys who've made a great catch or
come or who are excellent at what they do. On
CUB fans a lot and they're just gonna have a
good time no matter what win or lose. That's kind
of the cub fan mentality here in Seattle. If you
want to be here, man, the Felix Hernandezes of the world,
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when you choose to be here, when you're when you
react the way Josh Naylor just reacted in that press conference,
He's going to be a fan favorite for the rest
of his career, there's no question about because Seattle fans
love the guy that like he That was him saying.
Part of it was, I'm choosing Mariner fan base boy.
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He's just been he's a fan favorite for the next
five years.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Well, he tried to.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I mean, Cal's Cal's always going to be cal. And
but Josh Naylor just I mean, if you wanted to
pour honey into the ears of your fan base, say
that here in Seattle and you've won them over.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
Yeah, Well he knows what he's doing, and yet I do.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I think the dude's genuine I think he genuinely means
what he what he says, and he says what he feels.
And you're right, he got to kind of come here
right when it was already switched on. But I think
this signing and the group of guys that we're going
to be able to watch for the next few years,
I think they believe this is just the beginning of
a long haul of being in.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
That mode for a while.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
By the way, Jess Dolander did say yesterday that both
Polanco and Gino Swarez they were trying to re sign
that's the first time I think that we've heard it
said that plainly. So maybe all three of them come back,
which is something that I have not been forecasting. We
shall see, all.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Right, we'll talk more about it later on in the program.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Coming up next though, brand new college football playoff rankings
are out and there's some interesting things right around eight
through ten to discuss on KJR.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Well, I was surprised that the selection committee did not
reward Alabama's strength of schedule more and have them above
Notre Dame because when you.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Look, all right, Chuck Buck actually with you headlines coming
up at the top of the hour, plus Greg Bell
at seven five here to talk to Seahawks football before
the Titans match on Sunday. It is a hump day,
and of course last night, Tuesday night now belong in
large part to the college football rankings update.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
And there's Heather Dennich, who's usually dead on with all
of this.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
So when she says that she surprised Notre Dame slipped
ahead of Alabama, surprised that obviously the committee right now
is valuing the good losses, if there is such a thing,
over the good wins that have been posted by Alabama.
But Alabama does have a loss to Florida State and
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rather lopsided one this year, where Notre Dame has two
narrow losses to two of the better teams in college football,
one of the best teams in college football, so she
was expecting Alabama to be ahead of Notre Dame. Here's
the little thing about this is and this is where
I do disagree with Heather. She said that she feels,
based off of last night's rankings that Notre Dame's locked
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in with two pretty easy games to close out their
regular season and no threat of playing a conference championship
game because they're not in a conference. That she believes
that this suggests that Notre Dame is in I don't
know if I see that, because other teams can strengthen
their resume between now and then. Alabama can still win
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the SEC. As a matter of fact, their road is
easier than just about anyone's in the SEC. So if
they win the SEC, they jump over Notre Dame for sure,
and so that would clear that hurdle.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
That means Notre Dame drops down a spot and.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Then Miami just keeps creeping up. And if Miami somehow
gets to the end of this and don't play for
the ACC title game and have the same record as
Notre Dame at the end of this with an extra
winover Pit before the season comes to a close, There's
going to be an argument that Miami, because they want
head to head over Notre Dame and finished with a
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ten to two record and might have very similar strength
of schedule, they could still climb Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
So I don't think.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Notre Dame is I don't think the hay is in
the barn for Notre Dame at all, even though Heather
seems to think that it is.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
I wouldn't think it's a done deal. But then again,
this whole thing is intriguing and confusing because, like what
you just said, how much credit they're putting to like
a good loss, like oh you lost to a good
team versus a bad or like all the bad wins
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or wins against teams that you should beat, and how
they're weigh in that whole thing.
Speaker 9 (35:42):
I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
I think that Alabama could still jump up a little bit.
I mean, there's gonna be some there's gonna be a
little bit of carnage. I would think up there above them,
But maybe not a ton and so yeah, you are
still kind of fighting for that top ten spot and
the fact that they right now have them above Alabama.
But that is interesting because you know, it's one of
those Okay, if Alabama doesn't take care of business and
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then they eject themselves, yes, and yet but if.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
They do take care of business, I guarantee you they're
jumping there.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
If they remain at just two losses and run the
table the rest of the way, then yeah, they're definitely
going to jump ahead. But then that puts Notre Dame.
You would think at that point, if they only drop
down one, then they still pretty much are safe because
those eleventh and twelfth they're going to be those that
are at large and the ACC champions.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Well except for maybe Miami.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Miami is probably better off not finishing in the top
two in the ACC because if they win the ACC,
they automatically get in and Notre Dame still gets in.
But if they don't make it to the title game
and don't risk a third loss, then you know, then
there will be a discussion, and it might be the
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discussion for the final spot in the playoff as to
how much do we weigh two ten and two teams
that played similar strength of schedules this year, and one
of them beat the other, even though the other one
has been rated higher than them throughout this entire process.
That might be the discussion at the final, the final
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stage of this playoff committee debate. And so I don't
think Notre Dames Hay is in the barn at this point,
I'll just put it that way. Sad, yeah, even though
it does look like they're going to get there all right.
Greg Bell's Next plus your Headlines on Sports Radio ninety
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leads and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Jumped any conclusions?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Not a god, You've got to lower lower your expectations.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Hard to believe we could once send a fastball to Pluto.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
I'm getting some Bucky jacobs and vibes and former I'll
just openly admit I'm a fat, out of shape ex athlete.
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As we get things started four hours, we hope to
captivate you, keep you here for every single second until
ten o'clock this morning, and then you've got decisions to make.
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But until that time, you are ours, Chuck buck Ashley
with you, and we have a lot to cover today,
a lot of fun different topics to cover today, a
lot of great guests, including Jerry Depoto, who's going to
be joining us live today at nine o'clock to talk
about Josh Naylor, the off season game plan, and so
much more. So been a while since we've chatted with Jerry,
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so we look forward to that today live at nine
o'clock on the radio program. And so with all that
stuff on the plate, I mean, man, I don't know.
I mean, we're gonna we're a fine time to talk
about the Seahawks. But this might be our best opportunity
here right off the top of the show to really
dive in.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It is hump day, after all, and this is.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Where we start diving into the very next opponent of
the Seahawks. I don't even know. Did we even play
this past week? Do we even have a game?
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Game?
Speaker 9 (02:27):
Yeah? Yeah, division game?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, I'm not sure about that. I think we're zero
and zero on the ear.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That's how I.
Speaker 9 (02:34):
Lock it in. Yeah, well you are good at that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So I mean I think I think I've heard that
we've had a pretty good season.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
But to me, it's just zero zero, Yeah, just full
steam ahead, superabat.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Why dwell on?
Speaker 9 (02:50):
Uh huh look at it?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, win or lose. Uh. I put it behind me
because I really need.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
To focus on the next opponent, even an opponent as
you know, presumably soft, as what the Tennessee Titans are.
I mean, that's what we have up next. I mean,
they come up with these terms, and I think that
they are legitimate. I think they carry weight. The trap game,
I think that's a real thing. This is not really
a trap game. A trap game is one of those
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that exists where you're coming off a big.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Game and then you're getting ready for a big.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Game the following week, and you got some soft opponent
in the middle, and because you're coming off the last
you know, fevered game and you're getting ready for that
matchup the next week, maybe you overlook that team.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It's not really that.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
But there's also something called a letdown game, and it
can happen after a win the Rams might have to
face that, and I think that they would face that
if not for the fact that they're playing Sunday night
football against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I think they're going
to be fired up at home and ready for that
game on Sunday night. But you can also suffer that
after a big loss, a tough loss as well, where
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you think, man, we should have had that game, and
the next thing, you know, and we can't wait to
face them again, And the next thing, you know, you
haven't gotten ready for the team with the worst record
in the National Football League, the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And so that's kind of what you're up against.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
And there are other aspects to it, but I'll just
say the Tennessee Titans. You know, I played the Houston
Texans tight here recently, and they're a team that's got
playoff aspirations. They played the Chargers within a score here recently,
So I mean, I guess this is the Lou Holtz
in me. You know, your dad would look Gabe, I mean,
(04:33):
and that's that's where that's what this week is. And
I don't think Mike McDonald will let them do that.
But this is really the first game We've had like
this all season long. And I'm not sitting here telling
you on a Wednesday morning, on a hump Day that
I'm worried about the Tennessee Titans. But I will say
you better not be putting your feet up on the
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desk against them, because you can lose any given week
in the National Football League.
Speaker 9 (04:58):
You can. I you're right. I don't think Mike McDonald.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I don't think the culture that he's building kind of
allows the that to creep in. Now you're human, and
it's not like the Seahawks players aren't going to know
on their trip to Nashville that. But these guys aren't
really all that good. I mean, they're they're one point away.
They squeak, yeah, they yeah. They probably looked at something
(05:22):
on the World Wide Web and recognized that these guys.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Are I love the idea that Leonard Williams went into
the library and rented some micro yah, yeah, just to
find out.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
It's like all.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
He takes the big wooden stick with the newspaper dangling
off of it. Do you mind if I borrow this? Yeah,
I'm gonna check this out.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
D Williams.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
These guys are one to nine. Did you know that
we should probably win this one.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I mean they really the one win they pulled out
a one point victory again and the Cardinals. Otherwise they're
zero to ten. I mean, this is they're not good.
The first game they played this year, cam Ward's first
game was against the Broncos. I watched that and there
was moments that he made a couple throws that looked
like a first overall pick, and then there was moments
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that a lot more moments that he looked like a
rookie that was playing on a game that hadn't slowed
down at this point, and unfortunately for him, it kind
of hasn't really looked like the game has slowed down
a whole heck of a lot. When I have one,
I've gotten better. No, when I've watched some of it.
They don't run the ball very well at all. They
don't have big plays, which I think is going to
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be a detriment to them. There's just not a whole lot.
They've kind of traded away a couple decent players that
they had on defense. I mean, yeah, there's you can't
just throw your jock on the field. These are all
NFL players that are fighting for their livelihood and fighting
for their life in the league, and so they're going
to come out and play. But I do think that
you take care of business and you can find yourself,
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you know, halfway through the game, or you know, maybe
three quarters through the game, and all of a sudden,
they will roll over a little bit, just simply because
they're not very good and they know it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
By the way, everybody in movies that uses microfiche, it's
always a female detective. She always has her hair held
up by a pencil. Yeah, and then she always has
a marker in her mouth.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
And then she'll like take the pencil out to write
something even on the markers in her.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Mouth, right and.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Click, and she's got the glasses down.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So that's how I'm picturing Leonard Williams. He's got the
hair to put up, he's got a pencil through it.
Maybe his playbook, I don't know. Women have an amazing
way of holding their hair up with anything. It's like
uncooked spaghetti noodle. They'll just hold it up there. But anyway, Bucky,
I mean, I know you're right. I mean, cam Ward,
particularly when you have the number one overall picking the draft,
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no matter what talent you have to surround him. You
don't expect to have the number one overall pick in
the draft again next year, and you expect that guy
to at least improve. You know that you're putting a
talented player on a bad team, but you at least
want to see improvement out of, if not the team,
the player that you took with a number one overall selection.
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I mean, he's sitting here right now ranked thirty third
and QBR this year. There are only thirty two teams.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
In the next that's not great.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, so that's of the starters.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I mean he's got the I mean he's behind Russell
Wilson in QBR. Now, QBR is just one of many
stats out there and doesn't tell the entire story, but
I don't I don't think anybody wants to be rated
below Russell Wilson right now as a starting quarterback in
the National Football League. And yet there's cam Ward with
six touchdowns and six interceptions. That's all he has on
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the season. So we certainly haven't seen the improvement out
of him. I guess you could make the excuse of
how bad the talent is around him, but I will
say this in defense of Tennessee. I mean, nobody's played
a more murderous schedule this year. They they haven't played Denver,
the Rams, the Colts twice, the Texans twice, the Chargers
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and the Patriots.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
And they kept it close with the Texans last week.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You have to close with a lot of teams.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, that's eight of your ten games, and then your
next two are against the Seahawks.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
And the Jaguars they get no release.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So that's ten out.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Of twelve games. I mean, when the season started, maybe
those didn't look like the best teams in the National
Football League, But now if you look at the standings,
Denver and the Patriots and the Colts are the three
best teams in the AFC. Chargers aren't too far behind,
and the Texans have one of the top two defenses
in the.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
National Football League.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
The only relief they've had in their schedule was Arizona
and Vegas, who they both had to play on the road,
and they beat one of those two teams by one point.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So I mean, I mean, to me, it is a game.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That you do on your pocket schedule put a w behind,
but it is also the National Football League, and it's
also a team that has been playing hard under their
new head coach. They also have an interim head coach
that they're operating under, so everything says the Seahawks should
have no problem with this game. I certainly expect them
(10:12):
to win. But you better have the right mentality going
into this game because you get tripped up by a
team like Tennessee and all of a sudden, man your season,
which looked like it was humming two weeks eight days ago,
suddenly you're like, oh, we've got back to back losses
and we just lost to the worst team in the
National Football League. It can happen, so it shouldn't happen.
(10:35):
Right mentality, it won't happen, But you better have the
right mentality going in without a doubt.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I mean, I'm not one that would ever think, you know,
it's okay to overlook a team, and yet this might
be the most confident I would be the most that
I would feel that. I mean, at Dick Fane, I
think took it in fact or fiction. Yesterday the thirteen
point favorite took the Seahawks lay in thirteen points.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I would not do that.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I would do that. I would do that. I think
I don't I don't think this team is. I mean,
they just lost by seven to the Chargers. Chargers are
kind of rudderless right now. The Chargers are not playing
very good. I don't know for sure if Houston is
really as good as they have seemed like they were
going to be a couple of years ago, and still
last year won the playoffs. Now, you're right, they've played
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some tough They've played some tough teams. They've gotten whooped
by a lot of those teams too. I mean the Rams.
You just you just saw you how you measure up
against the Rams, and the Rams took care of business.
I think they beat them by fourteen points. And I
just think this is one where I would imagine they
beat them.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
They beat them by at least two touchdowns. I just
don't think.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And you are the world's leader, and if the one
team's better, I expect them to dominate them that you
are the world's leader in that am I?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, well, yeah, you make most of your picks. You
proudly are.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
The big spread.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
Yeah. Well, I mean I don't.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I just I just sometimes feel like there's two different
classes of teams. This is one of those situations.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
You're right.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Mentality plays a role in it. I'm not one that
would ever think it's okay to just go out and
think bad, we should beat these guys and we'll just
think that. You just think that and all of a sudden,
sixty minutes later, you're on the winning side of things.
I just think that if you have the right culture,
which I think Mike McDonald does, win or lose, this
team has the mindset of it's all about the process,
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get back into the process, and the process is get better,
get better at anything that we didn't do properly, which
them coming off of a loss last week, I think
they're probably motivated to rebound on that. I think it's
the exact opposite of While I see the similarities of
how it can be a trap game, you can overlook it.
It also is an opportunity, like, no, we got to
put our stamp on what the season is and let
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it be known that when we play the worst team
in the league record wise at this point, that we
let it be known that we are we still are
Super Bowl contender.
Speaker 9 (12:51):
There we was talking about just a week ago.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, I mean, matched up one team to the other,
we win this game, maybe not by thirteen, but we
win this game.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
No problem, right, No stress, no stress.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
But and I do believe that Mike McDonald has the
right mentality, and I do believe that he's the type
of guy that will sit there and remind his players
that you don't overlook anyone in the National Football League,
but a lesser team, a lesser mentality than that exposes you.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
And this would normally.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
For a lesser team, a team with a lesser mentality,
this would be a game I would circle and say, hey,
be careful because you're gonna you're gonna be sleeping on
a one and nine football team that's lost five straight games.
And yet they've been competitive against some of those teams
here as of late. And you just don't want to
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lose to the Tennessee Titans, not where you're at in
the season. You just don't want to fall to that
one and nine team, which, by the way, late in
the third quarter was tied with those Chargers. I mean
it was seventeen seventeen with two minutes to go in
the third quarter and they ended up losing by seven.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yeah, they've played well.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
I will say the one thing that I that doesn't
that I'm not overly concerned about them, thinking it's a
trap game or anything like that. Is that they have
the attitudes and the conversations we saw happening after the
loss to the Rams like they were motivated.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
They were, you know, play them again. Yeah, that's true.
That's true. I was just about to.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
Say it, team say and then they were like, oh,
I can't wait to see them again. I was like, wait, No.
They weren't like no, but yeah, to go. If if
they were to lose that game, which I don't think
they're going to. I do think we, as you guys
have both said they have the right coach, doing the
right things, They've got the right mentality.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
But man, that would be like the most.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh it would be yeah, yeah, And I think that's
the I think that's the issue I'm pointing out more
than anything. If you don't have the right mentality, don't
let the Tennessee Titans rock your boat this year. Who
cares if you lost a two on the road by
the Los Angeles Rams and you could actually reasonably carry
the narrative. I think we were better than that team
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on Sunday, and that's as good a team as there
is in the National Football League. I can I can
think there's a reasonable that reasonable takeaway from that game
if you are the Seattle Seahawks. But if you're still
thinking about that game, you can get tripped up by
a team like the Tennessee Titans, and so things like
I mean, this was brought up on yesterday show. If
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Gray's Able's healthy, I'm playing them. I'm not sitting any
players because I'm just gonna walk through this thing. Number one,
because I don't want to take anything for granted.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And then number two, I certainly don't want.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Sam Donald getting you know, I don't want to weaken
the wall in front of Sam Donald. I have a
left guard that hasn't given up a sack this entire season.
If he's healthy, he's ready to go. As an example,
I'm playing him against the Tennessee Titans. I want to
take the Tennessee Titans at least that seriously and not
just think this is a win. And if you start sitting,
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you know, questionable in guys that you would play other wise,
that's the trap that I think that you fall into.
So if Mike McDonald has the right mentality, if he
breathed that into his clubhouse on the airplane ride there,
in every single facet of the game.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, we shouldn't have anything to worry about.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
But man, you start sitting guys that are healthy enough
to go because you're being careful for them for the
following week, That to me is the mentality that gets
you in trouble in games like this.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Without a doubt. Yeah, I don't think that they typically
do that. It's if it's a if it's one of
those where it's questionable, I maybe can I mean literally,
if it's if you can go, if they they're gonna
they're gonna play him. If it's one of those, well
I think I could tough it out, even it you know,
I might only be seventy percent, then maybe you do
kind of say, hey, we hopefully can figure out a way.
I don't want I wouldn't want them to do that,
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because you the last thing you want to have happen
is you go into it and is regardless of how
good their mentality, regardless how good Mike McDonald is of
getting them rallied for the task at hand, if you
find yourself, you know, midway through the fourth quarter in
a three point ball game, there's no pressure on them.
They're just like, oh, we can snipe or we can
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you know, really kind of dash this team's hopes, at
least for this week. You don't want to find yourself there.
I just don't think that they will. And yet we
shall see if they how they make any of these decisions.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I do think that you're right, and I certainly hope
that you're right. It's just, you know, have your mind right, right,
if you're a Seahawk, have your mind right. And I
do trust that Mike McDonald will get them there. But
you just don't want to lose this game.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
No, you really don't.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
And I think as far as Gray's abel goes to,
you know, assuming that he's if it's any sort of
question going into the game, like, oh yeah, he could
probably play suit him up, keep him on the sideline.
Maybe he never has to go in, but at least
you've got him there so that you're not acting like
you're overconfident about things.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
All right, Well, let's find out what we got on
tap for you today here on Chuck and Buck.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
What's on?
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Tell? What's on?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Te Seahawks at Titan Sunday at ten o'clock. The brand
new week of the National Football League gets started tomorrow.
It will be Buffalo at Houston. There was a thought
that CJ. Stroud might play in this game back from
the concussion that he suffered a couple of weeks ago.
That is not the case. They have not conclet They
have not cleared CJ. Stroud from concussion protocol.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And so it'll be Davis Mills getting the start for
the Texans tomorrow against Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills.
Some other NFL notes that you might find interesting as
we really come down to the nitty gritty in our
fantasy leagues. If nothing else, Jamar Chase is going to
be out for this game. He did appeal the suspension
for spitting on Jalen Ramsey. The NFL said, nope, nope,
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We're not gonna do that.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
That's ridiculous, thinks Jamar. Yep, no spitting in the league.
I'll tell you that right now, Chase.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
And so the Bengals will be without Joe Burrow and
Jamar Chase against the New England Patriots this Sunday. Aaron
Rodgers might play, by the way, Yes, he did do
something injurious yeah to his wrist, but it's not going
to require surgery, and there is a chance that he
might rally and play for Pittsburgh against the Bears, and
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Josh Jacobs Ashley's.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Concerned with this.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
He left the game with the Green Bay Packers this
past week. It looked bad, and yet they did the
X rays and found out it was just a bruise.
So he might even go this week for the Packers
against the Minnesota Vikings. All things to keep track of
college football playoff rankings came out on a Tuesday. Notre
Dame ended up a little bit ahead of Alabama that
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fell after their loss to Oklahoma, and Miami is creeping
ever closer. Those are the three big topics of conversation, Alabama,
Notre Dame, in Miami, and we'll have that conversation later
this hour. Dogs are getting ready for the fighting Jerry
new ISILs of UCLA. That'll be this Saturday. Cam Cleveland
will join us at eight o'clock today to discuss it.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Coogs have a national.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Interest game this weekend. They're taking on James Madison, who
has a legit shot of making the playoff this year,
and keep getting overlooked by the committee. They keep jumping
two loss teams ahead of James Madison in the process,
but eventually you might run out of two loss teams
and have no choice. The Coogs could soil James Madison's
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plans of possibly being the ultimate underdog in the playoff
where they win. This Saturday, college basketball UDUB was taken
to double overtime by Southern, which was a bit of alarming,
but they did end up winning ninety nine to ninety three.
There are four to one on the young season, and
they won't play again until November twenty seventh. Major League Baseball,
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there was a trade of significance last night. The Baltimore
Orioles acquired Tyler Ward from the Angels in exchange for
Grayson Rodriguez, once considered as good a pitching prospect as
there was in Major League Baseball, but injuries have sort
of steinied his young major league baseball career. The Angels
are gonna roll the dice on possibly getting an ace
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if they can keep them healthy. Meanwhile, the Orioles wanted
an offensive veteran right now, and so that was the
trade that went down. But the bigger MLB news yesterday
certainly happened right here in Seattle. Josh Naylor introduced with
his brand new five year contract with the Seattle Mariners
we'll hear from Josh next and talk about it on
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Chuckin'buck Sports Radio ninety three point three KJARFM. All are
sitting there thinking baseball season is over and sitting around
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now at sports Radio ninety three point three KJR dot
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com you can find a brand new article about the
Mariners off season, or crystal Ball forecast or my personal
crystal Ball forecast for the Mariners off season. You can
check that out in written form if you need audio form.
Andrews Hurst and I have recorded this week's latest episode
of Stove, where we not only go over the crystal
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Ball forecast, but of course it starts with Josh Naylor,
who yesterday made it official, he with his smiley face
press conference with the Mariners. He actually made it official
on Monday, signing a brand new deal five years ninety
two point five million dollars to remain the Mariners first
basement for the next half decade. And yesterday, the very thoughtful,
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the very eloquent Josh Naylor conducted a press conference alongside
Jerry to Poto, Justin Hollander and others. And so we
talk more about nails here today on Chuck and Buck
in the Mornings, Ashley Bucket, Chuck with you.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Good to see him all smiley and happy up there.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
I think I would.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I two would be very happy if I knew ninety
two and a half million dollars for coming to me
to play the game that I love. But nevertheless, it
was nice to see just how excited he was to
be a Mariner yesterday.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Yeah, I mean, I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I think if somebody just says, hey, hell, one hundred
mill or so sound give or take, you know, over
the next few years. Okay, yeah, I think I'd be
pretty smiley too, But I do genuinely. I mean, you
hear what he says. And he loved it here. He
was accepted here. The thoughts and I was never traded
at the big league level, but I know guys that were,
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and even guys that are trading at the minor league level.
There's a thing in your head that goes on of well,
do they just.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
Not want me?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Or they do they really want me? Obviously, in this situation,
he knew that the Mariners were. He was sought after
by other teams. He was a trade deadline kind of
a hot pickup that a lot of teams were gonna want,
and so you go move to another team. But then
you got to all of a sudden like, Okay, how
is this going to go? How am I going to
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be accepted? As you know, what's this team going to
be like? And for a guy like him that I
think prides himself on being a good teammate and wanting
to pour everything he has into his team and in
return get something back from them as far as energy
and the will to want to win, I think that
it was it was ass I think that they just
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matched one hundred percent on it, and it turned out
on the field that he was a huge acquisition as well.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Well.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I mean, he just.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Has such a unique personality. I don't think there's anybody
like him, no in Major League Baseball or in any
professional sport that I've come across. He's so very thoughtful,
and when he speaks you find out just the lengths
that he goes to to think about baseball. But then
he never offers you anything about his personal life. Yeah,
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I mean even to the point where he ordered Mariner's
pr not to even mention that he had a baby. Yeah,
even though everything went well and really, we just wanted
to make sure everything went well with it. I mean, sure,
we wanted you back on the field because it was crucial,
but we really just wanted to find out that everything
went well. And he didn't even want them to reveal
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that didn't even want them to reveal the gender of
his child during the course of that week until on
his terms he could announce it, which ended up being
in the form of a fancy blue belt to tell
us that it was a little baby boy. So he
just he keeps things close to the best. So when
you have somebody that thoughtful, that interesting, and that careful
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about what he does provide, you really don't know what
he's thinking.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Is he going to stay? Did he like it here?
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Are we going to.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Find out that the whole time he just couldn't wait
to get back to Canada, even if it had to
be DH or we're going to find out that his
lifelong dream was to be a Pittsburgh Pirate.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I mean, do you have any We didn't have any
until he signed.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I didn't know what to expect from Josh Naylor, but
apparently in his head it was never really a doubt.
He was asked in the press conference yesterday. Why so quick?
And the process to sign a deal? Why didn't you
play it out?
Speaker 7 (26:13):
I mean, I really enjoyed every single moment I was here,
from the players to the head office of the coaching staff,
to the rest of the you know, the staff, the
kitchen crew, the clubbus managers, and it was just everything
was so awesome. I had such a blast being a
part of everything, getting to know players on and off
the field, and just competing with them. Obviously we fell
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a little bit short, but you know, I can't wait
to run it back with them because they deserve this,
the city deserves it, each of each player's family deserves it.
I can't express how much fun I had on this team.
It was unbelievable, like tears of joy kind of unbelievable.
And yeah, I just I love competing and competing with
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this organization was probably one of my favorites I've ever
had in my career. So I'm very, very blessed. I
played with some really, really great teams. I was fortunate
enough to play with my brother. That was probably the
best thing ever, you know, being able to play with
your brother and then coming here. It was kind of
a whirlwind of years out in Arizona and then ended
up getting traded, and getting traded is not easy at times,
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and you've got to move stuff around. You gotta worry
about family and stuff. But they just accepted me right away.
They helped me in every single way they could. Teammates
embraced me right away, fans embraced me right away. And
you know, at the end of the day, they deserved
that that world series that we're shooting for here. And
I can't thank the fans enough for supporting me as
much as they do. I love them and I hope
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they love me, and I just go out there and
compete for them every single night, and you know, God
willing bring a world series of this to the city.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
That's what you felt watching them, for sure. You were
like you wanted to you thought that's what you were watching.
You wanted to believe that's what you were watching. But
until I mean throwing out the those weird Instagram things
like hey, cal, sure was fun, best of luck, Bud.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yeah, you know it's been real. Yeah, stuff like that
through y'all throws you off a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
And so until he signs that dotted line and announces
in a press conference what he just announced.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
You don't know for sure, but it was it was
great to hear. Yeah, I mean, the.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Dude just seems like he's real. Like he's real and
the part of him being an ultimate competitor that all
he really wants to do is win. Now, everybody that
plays any sports they want to win. They want to
win a lot, but all they want to do is win. Like,
if it doesn't if it means i need to go
steal third, even though I'm the slowest guy in the league,
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I'm gonna go do that. Like, there's just some people
that just don't have all of what it takes between
the years and how and then understanding what it is
they bring to the table as an athlete to be
able to actually put everything everything into helping your team win.
And I think he's one of those guys that, you know,
baseball is different because you don't have to look like
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a certain thing to be a good baseball player. You
can have different body types and yet you just have
to understand that have a good baseball like you.
Speaker 9 (29:10):
And I think that his is off the charts.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
He talked about the fan embrace, and so he actually
expanded on that later on in the press conference. They are.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
They're so cool and super supportive of every in every
single way. They they're, like I said, they ride or
die fans. They want to see you win. And I
feel like when we win, we went together as like
the x amount of thousand that are in the crowd,
and then also the twenty six on the field, the
coaching staff that had office, like we all went together,
which is so cool and I feel like it's very
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rare to have that around the league. But this fan
base is absolutely incredible. I have nothing but great things
to say about them, nothing but.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
Love for them.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
I cherish my shoes and I think a lot of
people know that, But towards the end of the year,
I started to give like my shoes away to like
these little kids, just to like see them smile and
make them happy. And you know, I hope they appreciated it,
and I think they did, and I just I want
to continue to make them smile, whether it's with my gameplay,
whether it's the little gestures of signing autographs, giving away
some apparel. But they are they're a heartbeat, really and
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I love playing for them, and you know, playing with
them on the field, they're they're really with us on
the field. The energy they bring it helps us, you know,
create runs, create kind of cast in the base path
when you strike a guy out. This whole place is
rock and it is just unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I mean, he did show up at a time where
everything was already switched on, so he didn't really experience
anything that wasn't a playoff race or a playoff game.
But that said, I'll say this, I've been around a lot,
and I've seen a lot of different fan bases, and
some of those that have been considered the best been
around Saint Louis Cardinal fans, who are known for not
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just cheering for their own guys, but they'll give standing
ovations to other guys who've made a great catch or
come or who are excellent at what they do. On
CUB fans a lot and they're just gonna have a
good time no matter what win or lose. That's kind
of the cub fan mentality here in Seattle. If you
want to be here, man, the Felix Hernandezes of the world,
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when you choose to be here, when you're when you
react the way Josh Naylor just reacted in that press conference,
He's going to be a fan favorite for the rest
of his career, there's no question about because Seattle fans
love the guy that like he That was him saying.
Part of it was, I'm choosing Mariner fan base boy.
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He's just been he's a fan favorite for the next
five years.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Well, he tried to.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I mean, Cal's Cal's always going to be cal. And
but Josh Naylor just I mean, if you wanted to
pour honey into the ears of your fan base, say
that here in Seattle and you've won them over.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
Yeah, Well he knows what he's doing, and yet I do.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I think the dude's genuine I think he genuinely means
what he what he says, and he says what he feels.
And you're right, he got to kind of come here
right when it was already switched on. But I think
this signing and the group of guys that we're going
to be able to watch for the next few years,
I think they believe this is just the beginning of
a long haul of being in.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
That mode for a while.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
By the way, Jess Dolander did say yesterday that both
Polanco and Gino Swarez they were trying to re sign
that's the first time I think that we've heard it
said that plainly. So maybe all three of them come back,
which is something that I have not been forecasting. We
shall see, all.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Right, we'll talk more about it later on in the program.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Coming up next though, brand new college football playoff rankings
are out and there's some interesting things right around eight
through ten to discuss on KJR.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Well, I was surprised that the selection committee did not
reward Alabama's strength of schedule more and have them above
Notre Dame because when you.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Look, all right, Chuck Buck actually with you headlines coming
up at the top of the hour, plus Greg Bell
at seven five here to talk to Seahawks football before
the Titans match on Sunday. It is a hump day,
and of course last night, Tuesday night now belong in
large part to the college football rankings update.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
And there's Heather Dennich, who's usually dead on with all
of this.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
So when she says that she surprised Notre Dame slipped
ahead of Alabama, surprised that obviously the committee right now
is valuing the good losses, if there is such a thing,
over the good wins that have been posted by Alabama.
But Alabama does have a loss to Florida State and
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rather lopsided one this year, where Notre Dame has two
narrow losses to two of the better teams in college football,
one of the best teams in college football, so she
was expecting Alabama to be ahead of Notre Dame. Here's
the little thing about this is and this is where
I do disagree with Heather. She said that she feels,
based off of last night's rankings that Notre Dame's locked
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in with two pretty easy games to close out their
regular season and no threat of playing a conference championship
game because they're not in a conference. That she believes
that this suggests that Notre Dame is in I don't
know if I see that, because other teams can strengthen
their resume between now and then. Alabama can still win
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the SEC. As a matter of fact, their road is
easier than just about anyone's in the SEC. So if
they win the SEC, they jump over Notre Dame for sure,
and so that would clear that hurdle.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
That means Notre Dame drops down a spot and.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Then Miami just keeps creeping up. And if Miami somehow
gets to the end of this and don't play for
the ACC title game and have the same record as
Notre Dame at the end of this with an extra
winover Pit before the season comes to a close, There's
going to be an argument that Miami, because they want
head to head over Notre Dame and finished with a
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ten to two record and might have very similar strength
of schedule, they could still climb Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
So I don't think.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Notre Dame is I don't think the hay is in
the barn for Notre Dame at all, even though Heather
seems to think that it is.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
I wouldn't think it's a done deal. But then again,
this whole thing is intriguing and confusing because, like what
you just said, how much credit they're putting to like
a good loss, like oh you lost to a good
team versus a bad or like all the bad wins
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or wins against teams that you should beat, and how
they're weigh in that whole thing.
Speaker 9 (35:42):
I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
I think that Alabama could still jump up a little bit.
I mean, there's gonna be some there's gonna be a
little bit of carnage. I would think up there above them,
But maybe not a ton and so yeah, you are
still kind of fighting for that top ten spot and
the fact that they right now have them above Alabama.
But that is interesting because you know, it's one of
those Okay, if Alabama doesn't take care of business and
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then they eject themselves, yes, and yet but if.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
They do take care of business, I guarantee you they're
jumping there.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
If they remain at just two losses and run the
table the rest of the way, then yeah, they're definitely
going to jump ahead. But then that puts Notre Dame.
You would think at that point, if they only drop
down one, then they still pretty much are safe because
those eleventh and twelfth they're going to be those that
are at large and the ACC champions.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Well except for maybe Miami.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Miami is probably better off not finishing in the top
two in the ACC because if they win the ACC,
they automatically get in and Notre Dame still gets in.
But if they don't make it to the title game
and don't risk a third loss, then you know, then
there will be a discussion, and it might be the
(36:53):
discussion for the final spot in the playoff as to
how much do we weigh two ten and two teams
that played similar strength of schedules this year, and one
of them beat the other, even though the other one
has been rated higher than them throughout this entire process.
That might be the discussion at the final, the final
(37:15):
stage of this playoff committee debate. And so I don't
think Notre Dames Hay is in the barn at this point,
I'll just put it that way. Sad, yeah, even though
it does look like they're going to get there all right.
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