Bucky’s back and his house is still in the same place! Others have not been so lucky. It’s the day before the day before and we are faced with the realization that we might actually watch the Seahawks face 44-year old Phillip Rivers in his first football game in 5 years. Can the Colts keep it close? Rivers has had just three practices and it seems like a perfect opportunity for the Seahawks defense to have another great game. :30- ICYMI: Chris Petersen The former Husky head coach joined the show earlier this week to give us his thoughts on the CFP and whether or not he’d ever coach again. :45- No Cliché Keys to Victory! The Seahawks face the Colts on Sunday, so we give our keys to a Seahawks win, no (some) cliches allowed!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
Hey, good morning, Happy Friday to you. Welcome into the
radio show. It's Chucking Buck in the Morning's here on
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM. My
name is Chuck Powell. Ashley Ryan is here, and look
who's back. It's the Buck portion of the Chuckin' Buck
Radio Show.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hey, hey, I didn't have to swim to get here.
That was nice. Oh really just a dingy, yeah, a dingy?
Uh huh. Do you like my water? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I made?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah, well flo really actually like just the full blown
U you know, donut donut circle.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I just that's a fit on my arm, so yeah,
smart thinking. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Well, you know you gotta take your float ease. I
mean that's a long way from North Bend. Yeah, also, U,
you know, even though you're an all state swimmer, you
never know when you're going to tuck her out.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It was a long time ago.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I wouldn't make it very far these days without my speedo,
and I don't have any of this size.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, I'm I'm glad you're joking about this. Obviously you
missed the show yesterday to take care of the home front.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Everything.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Okay, everything's good.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah, the house is still where it was supposed to be,
where it started before the flood. That was kind of
I guess, uh, priority number one, well, actually my family
priority number one. That was it was a bit stress,
so I don't typically stress about it. I did my
due diligence before I bought a place on the river. Right,
we got a spot that's a little bit higher than
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everything around us.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Okay, as water, typically we'll go to the low areas.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yeah, come to find out, I'm married doing an engineer,
so I learned things like that. And yet that was
a test. The last few days was a test because
I mean you've we've seen it. As a matter of fact,
the first time after we moved there, the first high
water event was like two weeks after we moved there,
and all of a sudden, the water's lapping at the
grass or the level right at our house, and it's
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a foot away from the house. And it was like
kind of worrisome. There was a neighbor at the time,
his name was Cliff, that lived there. He's like, Noah,
there's nothing worry about it. There's nothing worried about I'm like,
but it's saying it's supposed to go up. And he's like, yep,
it'll just spill over on all the low spots. And
sure enough it did. And that and then and then
like a year or two after that we moved into
this house. They dredged the falls, so unfortunate for the
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lower Valley, Carnation Falls City to all those areas. They
basically allowed it to where more water will flow over
the falls, hence not bottlenecking up into the upper valley.
And since then it hasn't even gotten close. I mean
we're talking never with like two feet of the top
of our like the edge of our grass. But this
one was not like that. This one was right at
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the top. And then all of a sudden we're seeing, oh,
another bigger one's coming tomorrow. And then a bit even
bigger one the next day, and it's like, okay, this
is and sure enough the last two. The first one
it was a flood, but then the next one was
it was there was the river was running through my
property like and then down our driveway and down the
main road. I mean, by the time I got home,
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was it Wednesday, Like I couldn't get home. I couldn't
get that was our house was already landlocked. We were
already living on an island like billionaires do. Oh yeah,
So most people don't think you can own an island
unless you're a billionaire, but I basically do if mother
nature says I do.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And yet it was it just was a a little
bit stressful.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean, I was such an engineer.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I mean you always talk about how smart she is.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
How come you haven't had a drawbridge made yet?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's true? Yeah, I don't know. It'd be easy for her,
really hard.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
For me, Like some sort of pulley system that senses
the water, it releases things this way and this way.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And then and now that you're rich, now that you're
rich folk, I mean you know, who else do you
know has their own drawbridge?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That would be ways like yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
And you could have the wheel for the dog, could
be like the thing that gets it to go up
and down.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
That's a great idea, Archer running, that's a great idea.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Annoying people.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I don't know why she hasn't came up with something
like or just something that makes her house just just
raise up.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
That's probably.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I mean, invents something, Kate, what are you doing raising children?
Going to be a black belt in jiu jitsu? Yeah, okay, whatever, No,
it was. It was stressful. It was more stressful than
normal for me. Normally, I'm like, mad, We're fine, because,
like I said, I've seen it overflow the banks and
then and that kind of continue to grow and still
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nothing happened. Well, this one was it overflowed the banks.
It's running down a driveway. You can't get in or out.
Well you could, but you're gonna be You're gonna be
driving through floodwaters and that's not safe. And so it
was kind of one of those and yet it still
is rising.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It was.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
It was, Yeah, it was an event, I would say,
and I so I tried to get some sleep so
I could do the show, and then it was really
no sleep, and I still was setting alarm to get
up and check the websites and go look at it
and then go outside. And by the time five o'clock
rolled around, I'm like, this is just not good. I
didn't feel comfortable leaving my family. I would have had
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to take the truck to get out, yeah, and then
leave my family. Hey, you guys, just there's a boat there,
you know, the driftboat. Just hop in that if you
got to get out for whatever reason. So it just
didn't make sense. There's some water got in some of
my buildings and my shop and whatnot. But for the
most part, if anything got ruined in there, I probably
haven't looked at it or used it in five or
(06:01):
six years, so it can go to the dump anyways.
So for the most part, we lucked out. There's a
lot of people that, well, you're now dealing with real Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
People say that all the time, like when you have
an accident because truck went through the four way and
then you come out, you know, with just like a
broken wrist. Oh I really lucked out. No, no, no, I
actually had a lot of bad luck.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
It just could have been worse. Yes, yeah, yeah, you
did that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Uh yeah, yeah, So I don't look at you as, boy,
you got lucky there, Bucky. I look at it as like, well,
at least it could have been a lot could have
been worse.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, yeah, that is perspective.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I don't think you got lucky at all. Having to
stress out over that and to deal with that for
three days.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, I mean I wouldn't definitely wouldn't call it lucky yet, right,
But I mean, I mean I had a buddy who
listens to our show at the time, ended up he.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Said, yesterday's show was the best one he's heard.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
No, he doesn't listen if I'm not on, So you're smart.
He ended up having like a medical I mean, having
a stroke, and so it's just one of those you're
stressing out and luckily things worked out okay for me
and my family. I mean that's the bare bones bottom
line of it. And then yet you're like, I guess
things could be worse, you know, there's always things that
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could be worse. But the flood we did, we ended
up coming out basically unscathed for the most part. A
couple of little things we'll have to throw in the dump,
but other than that, family's good, houses, good where we
stayed dry, very good and I don't really have to
didn't have to take floaties to get here.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It's receded.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Now, Oh goody, I'm glad you're all right.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, thank you, very good too.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, all right, well Bucky is back. All is good,
and so we got four hours here for you today.
And well, yeah, not much has changed since last we talk.
We're just it's still we're sitting here jaws dropped open
over the fact that we have to face Philip Rivers
this weekend. It's still the it's still I still have
the same incredulous kind of look on my face, like
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is this really happening? And of course it happens to
the sea Hawks, because Seahawks are infinitely interesting. I've been
here for ten years. There's never been a day that
they weren't interesting. All interesting things in the National Football
League seem to either happen around two or in proximity
with the Seattle Seahawks, And so, of course it's the
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Seahawks who play the Colts the week after Daniel Jones
blows out his achilles, Riley Leonard gets hurt as the backup.
They realize we don't have a quarterback, and they go
out and sign a forty four year old grandfather of
two to start against US on Sunday. So that hasn't changed.
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We're still talking about Philip Rivers because it is really
just that fascinating and maybe I don't know, I think
maybe I'm everybody has the reaction of it, seems to me,
from Kurt Warner on our show yesterday to Greg de Hugh,
is just there's no way that this can be successful.
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But I feel like I have the largest there's no
way it can be successful. I feel like I have
the most adamant belief in that. I don't think anybody
has risen that we've had on to match. I think
some people are giving this a possible chance because Philip
Rivers is such a good quarterback for so long. I mean,
he irritated the hell out of Bucky for two decades
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for goodness sake in the AFC West. He's such a
good quarterback. But I tell you what, I just I
can't see anywhere. I'm telling you, Buck, I'm forty four
to three. That's what I think is going to happen.
I'm facing Ashley's defense this week in fantasy football in playoffs,
I face the Seahawks defense I'm expecting thirty points from them,
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I hope so. I mean, I think they're going to
run the football with Jonathan Taylor, but I just can't
imagine they can put too much on his plate. I
can't imagine he even fathoms how the speed of the
game and when you're away from it for two weeks
it catches up to you five years, twenty five pounds later.
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I mean, stepping off a high school football field. I
don't care how good Philip Rivers once was. This seems
impossible to me. I mean, maybe I'll be proven wrong
and I'll be here on Monday telling you what an
amazing story it is, and how Philip Rivers should have
done this long ago, and that man Brady should come
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out of retirement if this is so easy, and Peyton Manning,
you know, tape up your neck, boy, get out there. Obviously,
it's very easy. Eli Manning, what are you doing on
the couch?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Play some football?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You're not one hundred yet, clearly inside your fifties. You
can still play football in the National Football League.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
But we'll see.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I'm expecting it to be an absolute s show, unfortunately
for Philip Rivers.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
On Sunday, well, it very well could be.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
I mean, just when you start putting everything together, the Seahawks,
the way in which they're play defensively, the way in
which they haven't, you know, the last couple of weeks,
when they've played a team that is inferior to them,
they've just put it on them. I mean, I mean
absolutely ran away with it. You know, imposed their will
made a statement, whatever cliche you want to use, it's
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they've been doing that. I'll just say, I mean, to me,
their defense is unbelievable. You still got to go out
and play, because, yeah, while that's the most important position
on the field, there's still ten other dudes on offense
they're gonna be playing with him, and a decent defense,
a defense that had carried that team with Daniel Jones,
many of which would have said, you know, when he
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was with the Giants, a lot of people thought you
couldn't be better than a sixty four year old Philip Rivers,
and I don't think that was necessarily correct based on
the way that he played a majority of this season.
And yet there's so you still got to go out
and you've got to kind of prove that the facts
are the facts that you are head and shoulders above
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this team and not make a bunch of crucial mistakes
because all of a sudden, if he goes out there
and with the little bit of knowledge that you can
get in a short week of practice with a new team,
even though you know the offense, but you don't you
haven't been throwing passes. You haven't been seeing guys coming
at you live most certainly, you haven't seen Mike McDonald's
guys coming at you the way.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
That they do.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
If you just give them short fields and it's hey,
just don't turn the ball over and get a three,
and then don't turn you turn the ball over and
they get three, and next thing you know, you break
coverage and there's a seven. Next thing you know, you
can find yourself in a ball game where the pucker
factor will start to come in because you're like, how
in the heck are we letting this happen? Because you
would feel I think if you're on the field, you
would feel the what the narrative around it is, if
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all of a sudden, you're in the fourth court and
you're behind Philip Rivers five years removed from taking an
NFL snap, Now that seems really far fact.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, if we get to that point, I'll buy your point.
But I just what my point is. I don't see
any scenario possible that you get to that point.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I okay, so just a couple of weeks ago watching
the Denver Broncos game. But the defense was one of
the best in the NFL has been for the entire season,
and they're going against Marcus Mariota, who has really never
proven that he's great at the NFL level, and he
absolutely diced up the secondary that was was not nobody
had diced him up. So there was a game plan
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that kind of fit into every once in a while,
if you catch them while they're doing that moving around.
How Hugh talks about there's a way in which you
can get it done. I don't see Philip Rivers being
able to do that on short notice. But I wouldn't
put it out of the room of possibilities. I'm just
not at the point where I'm like, I have no
understanding how this could be anything other than forty four
to three.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I can see definite ways of which you could.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I'm just saying I don't see anyway that there's a
not a blowout. I might not be as aggressive as
forty four to three. But that's just that's what I'm thinking.
That it ends up. And Marcus Mariota has been playing
all year long and he's actually pretty good versus somebody
that hasn't played in five years, five years, not playing
quarterback in the National Football League, at an advanced age,
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at an advanced weight.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I just how do you do it?
Speaker 7 (14:12):
He's going to have three practices, three.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Practices, hasn't been tackled in five years. I don't care
how much he's been slinging the ball around the yard
with his high school wide receivers. Yeah, I mean, I
just I just don't think anybody in Indianapolis realizes how
difficult this is going to be. I don't think Philip
Rivers understands how difficult this is going to be. I
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just don't see how it's even humanly possible. I mean,
I've watched a game with where the forty nine Remember
when forty nine Ers lost brock Perty and they didn't
have a quarterback and Christian.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Was it Christian McCaffrey had to throw the ball or something.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
No, it was like a wide receiver, an emergency quarterback.
That's how I think.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
It's going to be Caffrey.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's how I think it's going to be. I mean,
I just don't see how he could even have a
chance out there without grossly turning the ball over or
I just think that's the type of day it's going
to be. I think you're looking at like a five
turnover day from Philip Rivers.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I mean, I just look at the last two games,
and it was thirty seven to nine against the Falcons
and twenty six nothing against the Vikings. Credited the Vikings
had a rookie quarterback, but you you did thirty seven
to nine against the Kirk Cousins, who has been playing.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
He's been playing, yeah, and so I just I think.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
If you gave him a couple of weeks, it wouldn't
it wouldn't be the same story. But three practices and
you haven't played in five years, and so it's not
even just a Philip Rivers thing. You haven't played with
this offense, like you don't know you you and the
receivers don't have a relationship yet. You don't know where,
you know, the timing and all of those things that
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the intricacies of football, you can't you can't figure that
out with a team in three days.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Right as a Seahawk fan, I hope I'm wrong. I
hope it's a really interesting thing.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
I hope it's seventy five.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I want to win. But I hope it's a really
interesting game, And I think it's a really good story
if it is. I mean, he doesn't have to win,
he just has to, Like, I mean, it's going to
be a great story either way. Yeah, even if he
goes out there and makes the biggest fool of himself
that we've ever seen in the history of the NFL,
it's still going to be a great story that he's
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even attempting this. So I hope I'm wrong. I hope
he I hope he plays well. I hope it's a
competitive game. I hope we win that competitive game. That's
my hope. I just put me in the category with
the most extreme opinion on this of it not working.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
But that's where I am.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I just don't see how you can do this at
the National Football League level and live to tell the tale.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Well, I think there's probably a better chance that the
how fast the game is and the fact that he
hasn't had the I mean He's been hit plenty of
times and so you get it. But the idea of
not having been hit and then getting just crushed in
the pocket, I mean, getting through this game healthy would
be my main concern for him being able to, you know,
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throw the ball to somebody that he thinks is open
and fitted into a little window. I think that he
can do that from time to time. Now, it's just
the all the experience that he had. He didn't have
any experience going against a defense that just looked like this.
So it's kind of one of those, Man, that's the
best thing that you're bringing to the table is you
know the NFL. Well, you don't know this version of
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the NFL. This one is different. Mike McDonald wasn't even
in the NFL when you last took a snap, and
so it's going to be I mean, it's uphill sledden
or I mean a tough go.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I mean, I don't necessarily see this being that close
of a game, But I think there's plenty of quarterbacks
that he would be able to, maybe after a little
bit more than three practices, compete with that are still playing.
And even though he's forty four years old. And you know,
I mean he retired uh twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Season with practice, with some time, if he had a
full training camp, maybe maybe I give Philip Rivers a
chance to do that. Yeah, but to show up Wednesday
and be ready to face an NFL defense on Sunday.
Not to mention this defense.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
On the road.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Yeah, As I said, any chance for flags on him,
just full flag and then he's down that way, you
don't injure him.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
show today.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
What's on tip? What's on tap?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Hugh Millan will be with us today at nine o'clock
to do some ex's and o's regarding the Seahawks and
the Colts. Mike Holmgren will be with us today at
eight thirty, so we'll chat with him at a different
time today. Normally it's nine thirty. Today, we'll do it
at eight thirty. And Greg Bell will be with us
as well at seven oh fons we'll get the latest
information from him. Of course, he's already about thirty beers
(19:02):
in to his Army Navy weekend, and so it's always
interesting on Friday morning of Army Navy weekend to check
in with Greg. He usually has a bunch of Army
buddies with him in the car, and he's usually in
the best mood he's been in all year long. So
I'm looking forward to checking in with Greg from Baltimore
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at seven oh five today. Heisman Trophy is going to
be announced Saturday as well. Kind of an interesting college
football triple header. Never really had this happen before. We've
never put a bowl game on the same day as
the Army Navy game. Just has never happened. And yet
we've got Army Navy and then you've got Heisman at
four o'clock, and then you've got the La Bowl featuring
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the Huskies at five o'clock, all on Saturday. Sharon Moore
is still in jail and is not going to have
his court appearance until later on today. So obviously a
pretty serious sitch going on beyond just him losing his
job as the Michigan football coach.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Sharon Moore is.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I mean, I think he'd be out of jail right
now if this wasn't a serious charge. But obviously there's
something serious going on there with the now former Michigan coach.
We'll talk about this a little bit later on in
the show as well. It was a huge topic yesterday.
College Basketball dub takes on Southern Utah tomorrow at three o'clock.
I don't know how they threw a Southern Utah in
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the middle of the Big Ten schedule. That just got going,
but that's the matchup. And of course, the Husky's coming
off a huge win over then undefeated USC on Saturday.
They haven't played a game since. Koogs will be in
action tomorrow, assuming on Sunday at four point thirty against
USC and the Zags playing Ucla tomorrow night. Kraken coming
(20:49):
off a win, we'll get ready to take on the
Mammoth in Utah. That will take place tonight. And of course,
if you haven't checked out the latest episode of Stove
with Anders Hurst and myself, it is available to you
at ninety three threekjr dot Com. We'll talk a little
bit about that as well later on in the program.
But coming up next in case you missed it, had
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a great opportunity back Monday to talk to Chris Peterson
about the college football playoff and other things, and so
we're going to replay some of that just in case
you missed it. Right here on Chuck and Bucksports Radio
ninety three point three KJRFM. Good morning, it is Chuck
Obuck in the morning. It is a Football Friday sponsored
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by volume, saver Responsibly, Ashley, Bucky and Chuck with you
here on this football Friday. Greg Bell joins us later
Mike Holmgren, Hugh millin our normal cast of experts as
we get you ready for the football weekend. But we're
gonna go all the way back to Monday, coming out
(21:52):
of the college football playoff announcements, where we had a
great opportunity to chat with former UDW head coach Chris p. Pteron,
who is now with Fox Sports, so is stayed in
the college football game, and he seemed like the perfect
guy to bring on to react to the college football playoff,
and we talked about other things with him as well,
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And it seems like a wasted opportunity if we don't
replay some of that for you who some of you
who might have missed it, So in case you missed it,
our conversation with coach Peterson a few minutes from it,
and we are going to start with the drama. We
asked him about the drama in today's college game and
what changes he might make in order to stem some
(22:36):
of it.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
You know, the Fansville commercial of doctor Pepper. Yeah, you know,
a couple of years ago, I just chuckled those commercials
and get a kick out of them. Now they're not
dramatic enough, like college football ahead of the fan though,
there's more drama going on in those than the commercial.
I think another thing. I think another thing that you know,
(22:57):
and again the networks would have to get on board
with it. But like I think the college football season
needs to start earlier. I think we need to start
in the you know, two weeks earlier in August. Everybody's
dying for football at that point anyways, And I really
think this whole thing needs to be done by early January.
(23:20):
January first, and for a couple of reasons. One then,
let the NFL go have their their Heyday. Don't compete
in there, you know. I the games were so spread
out last year that I kind of felt myself losing
a little interest in the college football playoffs, and and
you're putting, you know, the NFL playoffs in between. And
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I'm more of a college football guy than I am
a NFL guy, but so that was a little awkward.
And then you can then also shift the academy, you know,
the football calendar around the academic calendar. I mean, it
is ridiculous that we're having coaches, you know, and it's
been going around for a while, but Lee their programs
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that kids are opting out going into the transfer portal
while the season's still going on. So you got to
play the season, get that over with. Then you got
to sign your high school kids. Then after that you
can sign your portal guys. And there's going to probably
need to be some adjustments to springball. Although these coaches
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are old school people and they don't like change and
they want that spring football how it's always been. But
I you know, I look at the NFL how they
do their quote spring football. It's later, it's not as
much pass, not as much contact. I mean, I see
that model. And then you know, the kids are all
here for the summer, the coaches are here. They can
(24:43):
now coach them in the summertime, so you kind of
just blend into that and so anyway, there's just so
many things that you're trying to figure out. It's it's
not it's unending.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Don't I know you don't want the job, but you
sound like a commissioner. Sound like you got some answers there.
Coach Peterson is this year on chucking buck in the morning.
I do want to ask you because well, I think
I already know the answer, but I want to hear
how you verbalize it. I'm sure you think Notre Dame
is not doing the right thing by announcing they're sitting
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out the bulls.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, I mean again, here we go, Fansville. Right, We've
had like players coaches opting out, and now we've got
teams opting out. It's like, are we serious here? You
know you know what I think about I think about
BYU a little bit, because you know, here's the team
that got beat by the number four team in the
country twice, and they really haven't said a whole lot.
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So the word on the three was that BYU was
gonna play Notre Dame in that pop tart bull which
would have been a really cool matchup. BYU can make
a case that two years in a row they've kind
of been snubbed a little bit, but they're gonna go
on and play. I mean, I don't know. This is
a hard one for me because I get the emotion
and how Notre Dame feels like they were so wronged,
(26:02):
but it also feels like, Okay, I'm going to take
my ball and go home now. And you guys said,
you know how I come, and I say, yes, I'm
still an old school guy that we're teaching. Like, you know,
there's so many things that this is why I love
football so much. It's like the trojan horse. It's the
trojan horse values that we're teaching. There's so much life
(26:23):
that we're still teaching through this game. And one of
those things are is like being extremely disappointed and things
don't go your way and you still got to figure
out how to do your best and navigate through that.
It's like, okay, so what now? What I mean, that's
what I think about, Like, Okay, this happened to us,
(26:44):
So what now? What are we going to go home?
Are we going to lay down? Are we going to respond?
And so I think about that. I think Notre Dame,
you know, is going to be really good next year.
And so you're kind of throwing all that away in
terms of practicing, putting a chip on your shoulder, go
out and prove it against a really good team and
set yourself up for next year. I understand both sides
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of this. I would have loved to see them play
against BYU.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I would love to see you coach again. Are you
really not going to coach again? And it is like
Sandy Kofax hanging it up? I mean, you got something
left in the tank here, Peterson? Are you really done?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
One of the things that I do now that I
really find a lot of probably joy purpose in. So
I'm not coaching on the sidelines, but I do. I
do some stuff with a handful of coaches, and so
I find a lot of purpose. Like all the things
that we're talking about here, help them coaches navigate this
(27:40):
really difficult arena that we're in right now, and it
is tricky, tough, and it's like it's really about it
comes back to ourselves, you know, with all the things
that are being thrown, how do we show up every day?
Is our best? You know? We put that always on
our kids. We demand so much out of the kids
and the players and expect them to bring their best
energy their best face, focused day in and day out,
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but half the time we don't show up as our
best because this arena is so like twenty four seven
three sixty five, and it squeezes us and narrows us
and makes us not our best but our worst version
in some cases. And so I find a lot of
purpose in helping coaches navigate that. And I think the
bottom line is that and this is why I stepped
(28:24):
away when I was trying to really get clarity on
this whole thing that I had this beautiful job at
you Dub but wasn't happy. And I think I've just
come to the conclusion that I love football. I love teaching, coaching,
leading all those type of things and helping people navigate that.
But when you jump back in to that arena and
stand on the sidelines, you live a very, very narrow life.
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That is what you do twenty four seven three sixty five.
And at this point in my life, I just don't
want to.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Live that narrow Chris Peterson with us earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
He was great.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
If you want to hear the entire interview, do so
at ninety three three Kjar dot com. And I think
this probably needs to be said at a public service announcement.
Because we spent a lot of time Ashley and I
yesterday railing on coaches in college football for their lack
of commitment to their contracts and the people that they've
convinced to trust them. So we spent a lot of
(29:18):
time railing on this. So this Michigan thing pops up,
and every single former UDUB head coach apparently is in
the running for Yah for the job, I mean Debor
and Fish and didn't hear Sark.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Maybe I didn't hear Sark Dick Baird.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I think Dick Baird got mentioned yesterday. So every single coach,
it seems like, associated with Washington, including Chris Peterson that's
actually true, was being linked to the Michigan job. And
so we kind of went off on coaching yesterday. And
it's unfair because Caitlin Debor has shot it completely down,
(29:54):
and even though we haven't really heard Jed shoot it
completely down. I think he's tired of con instantly having
announced that he's going to stay at you Dub, and
so maybe he was rolling his eyes all day yesterday
and then you just said, Chris Peterson, he has no
interest in coaching anywhere I don't care how prestigious that
the program is. He could be coaching in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Right now if he wanted to.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
He could be coaching any number of programs. And so
we run with rumors and then we talk about them
as talk show hosts. And I think that that's in bounds,
and I think that Jetfish's history, he's earned that. But
the truth of the matter is, we talk about these
rumors and then you have Chris Peterson saying that's ridiculous.
I'm not coaching anywhere, and you get it actually from
(30:40):
the horse's mouth. So you know, let's spend I just
wanted to spend thirty seconds saying it's Jetfish. Kaylin de
Boor and Chris Peterson have no like immediate link to
this job. Their names just came up in rumors.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Yeah, yeah, that would be a good fit.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
The national thoughts seemed like that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yep, right.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
I mean Chris Peterson's he loved his job, or he
loved where he was at a situation here, he just
wanted to stop being having to be so singularly focused
just doing the job that he just explained perfectly, you'd
basically do nothing about that job that's it, and it's
just is. While it's wonderful and beautiful for a period
(31:23):
of your life, there's He's not the only coach that
probably feels that some of them may be sticking out
beyond and wish that they would have shut it down
and stopped being, you know, kind of a slave to
that routine a little bit more than they are sooner
than they actually do. Once you basically jump ship for
something that you find better Calan to War did it
you know Jedfish has done it, then you're automatically going
(31:47):
to be linked if you're also considered a good coach, Yes, exactly.
So it's kind of if Jedfish worry about it, it
should be h I mean, if if your name never
came up, like I wonder if this guy, this guy's
a good fit. If it never came up, then you're
probably not doing a real good job coaching. And so
to some degree take it as a compliment. And at
(32:07):
the same time, if you there's part of that that's
annoying because you get you hear the question is, so
you're gonna leave again? If you hear it like, well,
you've left places, yes, deal with it.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
You've earned that record.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Yes, I mean I don't understand where the ruffled feathers
comes from, you know. To me, Like I said, it's
a there's a compliment, complimentary part of it, and then
there's another part of it. If you don't like it,
it's because that's you.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
You've done that well.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
They are calling it the LA Bowl, it really is
the Chris Peterson Bowl. It's Boise State versus Washington Saturday
at five o'clock. So if you want to check out
the Chris Peterson Bowl, We've got bowl season starting and
ending for you, dub this Saturday, all right, coming up next.
We do it every Friday before a Seahawks game. It's
no cliche. Keys to Victory on Chuck and Buck Sports
(32:53):
Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. We go round the
room here every Friday at six forty five, six fifty
to discuss our keys to victory for the Seahawks. But
we cannot use cliches like all three faces win the
turnover battle, winning the trenches.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
You know, So, Bucky, where are we gonna go?
Speaker 5 (33:17):
This one seems pretty easy? I mean, Jonathan Taylor just
I mean, you trust your dbs, you trust your secondary
that they're going to be able to do what they
have been doing against all NFL quarterbacks. As far as
kind of holding the passing game down, you just can't
let I mean, if there is one thing you have
to be somewhat concerned about, it's that the NFL's leading
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rusher is coming into town and you let him get loose.
He can he can take it to the house, he
can grind it out. Twenty five thirty carries a game.
You have to basically just commit to that. Dude's not
beating us. If Philip Rivers comes off of his high
school coaching sideline and does something spectacular, or or you
cough up the ball and give them an opportunity, then
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you know that's how sports work sometimes. But you just
flat out can't let that part of the game plan.
They're coming in saying, come on, Jonathan, carry us, we
need you, and he's gonna run as hard as he
possibly can. You gotta make it uphill sled in every
single second.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Even rushing champions against stack boxes in the National Football
League have a hard time being successful. So that's what
I would imagine. Jonathan Taylor's gonna face. He's gonna face
like thirteen men in the box.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, so that's that's that's how difficult of a day.
I mean, if yeah, I can he's good. They've got
some good players. They have some really good players on
the Indianapolis Colts team, and he's maybe the best of them.
All Right, Ashley, what do you go for your no
cliche key?
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Yeah, that was gonna be mine as well.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Just I mean, we talked about him the other day
and just going over his numbers and the games that
he you know, the wins and these stats where he's
been successful and the losses where they've kept him under
eighty yards. So you hold him under eighty yards and
you should be pretty much we're not worrying about a win.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
I mean it should be, especially considering what we're.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Dealing with in the passing game from them and the
uncertainty with Philip Rivers. If you can keep Jonathan Taylor
under eighty yards, it should be smooth sailing.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yeah, I'm gonna say cliche, but I'm going to defend it.
It's the trenches. It's in the trenches that's the key.
And the reason that I'm saying it is the key
is because I don't think Indianapolis has anything else. Again,
I might be the most extreme with my doubt as
to whether or not Philip Rivers can do this on Sunday,
(35:33):
but that's where I'm at. Yeah, And so to me,
they're going to try to run the ball all day
long with Jonathan Taylor, and they're going to when he
does throw, they're gonna throw really.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Quick, real short, real short.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Run after the catch, Tyler, get it to Tyler Warren
at the line of scrimmage, get it to Michael Pittman
at the line of scrimmage. That's the offense that they're
going to go with. So I think you only have
like two yards to defend.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
I think the trenches is all you have to defend.
And if you give Mike McDonald that game plan, how
on earth does he not succeed with flying colors.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
I would assume he would.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
So that's gonna be my key, Just defend the trenches. Yeah,
And I just can't imagine Philip Rivers can beat you
over the top.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
I just can't imagine it.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
Hey, good morning, Happy Friday to you. Welcome into the
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Radio Show.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hey, hey, I didn't have to swim to get here.
That was nice. Oh really just a dingy, yeah, a dingy?
Uh huh. Do you like my water? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I made?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah, well flo really actually like just the full blown
U you know, donut donut circle.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I just that's a fit on my arm, so yeah,
smart thinking. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Well, you know you gotta take your float ease. I
mean that's a long way from North Bend. Yeah, also, U,
you know, even though you're an all state swimmer, you
never know when you're going to tuck her out.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It was a long time ago.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I wouldn't make it very far these days without my speedo,
and I don't have any of this size.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, I'm I'm glad you're joking about this. Obviously you
missed the show yesterday to take care of the home front.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Everything.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Okay, everything's good.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah, the house is still where it was supposed to be,
where it started before the flood. That was kind of
I guess, uh, priority number one, well, actually my family
priority number one. That was it was a bit stress,
so I don't typically stress about it. I did my
due diligence before I bought a place on the river. Right,
we got a spot that's a little bit higher than
(01:57):
everything around us.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Okay, as water, typically we'll go to the low areas.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yeah, come to find out, I'm married doing an engineer,
so I learned things like that. And yet that was
a test. The last few days was a test because
I mean you've we've seen it. As a matter of fact,
the first time after we moved there, the first high
water event was like two weeks after we moved there,
and all of a sudden, the water's lapping at the
grass or the level right at our house, and it's
(02:23):
a foot away from the house. And it was like
kind of worrisome. There was a neighbor at the time,
his name was Cliff, that lived there. He's like, Noah,
there's nothing worry about it. There's nothing worried about I'm like,
but it's saying it's supposed to go up. And he's like, yep,
it'll just spill over on all the low spots. And
sure enough it did. And that and then and then
like a year or two after that we moved into
this house. They dredged the falls, so unfortunate for the
(02:45):
lower Valley, Carnation Falls City to all those areas. They
basically allowed it to where more water will flow over
the falls, hence not bottlenecking up into the upper valley.
And since then it hasn't even gotten close. I mean
we're talking never with like two feet of the top
of our like the edge of our grass. But this
one was not like that. This one was right at
(03:06):
the top. And then all of a sudden we're seeing, oh,
another bigger one's coming tomorrow. And then a bit even
bigger one the next day, and it's like, okay, this
is and sure enough the last two. The first one
it was a flood, but then the next one was
it was there was the river was running through my
property like and then down our driveway and down the
main road. I mean, by the time I got home,
(03:29):
was it Wednesday, Like I couldn't get home. I couldn't
get that was our house was already landlocked. We were
already living on an island like billionaires do. Oh yeah,
So most people don't think you can own an island
unless you're a billionaire, but I basically do if mother
nature says I do.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And yet it was it just was a a little
bit stressful.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean, I was such an engineer.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I mean you always talk about how smart she is.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
How come you haven't had a drawbridge made yet?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's true? Yeah, I don't know. It'd be easy for her,
really hard.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
For me, Like some sort of pulley system that senses
the water, it releases things this way and this way.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And then and now that you're rich, now that you're
rich folk, I mean you know, who else do you
know has their own drawbridge?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That would be ways like yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
And you could have the wheel for the dog, could
be like the thing that gets it to go up
and down.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
That's a great idea, Archer running, that's a great idea.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Annoying people.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I don't know why she hasn't came up with something
like or just something that makes her house just just
raise up.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
That's probably.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I mean, invents something, Kate, what are you doing raising children?
Going to be a black belt in jiu jitsu? Yeah, okay, whatever, No,
it was. It was stressful. It was more stressful than
normal for me. Normally, I'm like, mad, We're fine, because,
like I said, I've seen it overflow the banks and
then and that kind of continue to grow and still
(05:03):
nothing happened. Well, this one was it overflowed the banks.
It's running down a driveway. You can't get in or out.
Well you could, but you're gonna be You're gonna be
driving through floodwaters and that's not safe. And so it
was kind of one of those and yet it still
is rising.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It was.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
It was, Yeah, it was an event, I would say,
and I so I tried to get some sleep so
I could do the show, and then it was really
no sleep, and I still was setting alarm to get
up and check the websites and go look at it
and then go outside. And by the time five o'clock
rolled around, I'm like, this is just not good. I
didn't feel comfortable leaving my family. I would have had
(05:40):
to take the truck to get out, yeah, and then
leave my family. Hey, you guys, just there's a boat there,
you know, the driftboat. Just hop in that if you
got to get out for whatever reason. So it just
didn't make sense. There's some water got in some of
my buildings and my shop and whatnot. But for the
most part, if anything got ruined in there, I probably
haven't looked at it or used it in five or
(06:01):
six years, so it can go to the dump anyways.
So for the most part, we lucked out. There's a
lot of people that, well, you're now dealing with real Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
People say that all the time, like when you have
an accident because truck went through the four way and
then you come out, you know, with just like a
broken wrist. Oh I really lucked out. No, no, no, I
actually had a lot of bad luck.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
It just could have been worse. Yes, yeah, yeah, you
did that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Uh yeah, yeah, So I don't look at you as, boy,
you got lucky there, Bucky. I look at it as like, well,
at least it could have been a lot could have
been worse.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, yeah, that is perspective.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I don't think you got lucky at all. Having to
stress out over that and to deal with that for
three days.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, I mean I wouldn't definitely wouldn't call it lucky yet, right,
But I mean, I mean I had a buddy who
listens to our show at the time, ended up he.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Said, yesterday's show was the best one he's heard.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
No, he doesn't listen if I'm not on, So you're smart.
He ended up having like a medical I mean, having
a stroke, and so it's just one of those you're
stressing out and luckily things worked out okay for me
and my family. I mean that's the bare bones bottom
line of it. And then yet you're like, I guess
things could be worse, you know, there's always things that
(07:13):
could be worse. But the flood we did, we ended
up coming out basically unscathed for the most part. A
couple of little things we'll have to throw in the dump,
but other than that, family's good, houses, good where we
stayed dry, very good and I don't really have to
didn't have to take floaties to get here.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It's receded.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Now, Oh goody, I'm glad you're all right.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, thank you, very good too.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, all right, well Bucky is back. All is good,
and so we got four hours here for you today.
And well, yeah, not much has changed since last we talk.
We're just it's still we're sitting here jaws dropped open
over the fact that we have to face Philip Rivers
this weekend. It's still the it's still I still have
the same incredulous kind of look on my face, like
(07:56):
is this really happening? And of course it happens to
the sea Hawks, because Seahawks are infinitely interesting. I've been
here for ten years. There's never been a day that
they weren't interesting. All interesting things in the National Football
League seem to either happen around two or in proximity
with the Seattle Seahawks, And so, of course it's the
(08:19):
Seahawks who play the Colts the week after Daniel Jones
blows out his achilles, Riley Leonard gets hurt as the backup.
They realize we don't have a quarterback, and they go
out and sign a forty four year old grandfather of
two to start against US on Sunday. So that hasn't changed.
(08:39):
We're still talking about Philip Rivers because it is really
just that fascinating and maybe I don't know, I think
maybe I'm everybody has the reaction of it, seems to me,
from Kurt Warner on our show yesterday to Greg de Hugh,
is just there's no way that this can be successful.
(08:59):
But I feel like I have the largest there's no
way it can be successful. I feel like I have
the most adamant belief in that. I don't think anybody
has risen that we've had on to match. I think
some people are giving this a possible chance because Philip
Rivers is such a good quarterback for so long. I mean,
he irritated the hell out of Bucky for two decades
(09:22):
for goodness sake in the AFC West. He's such a
good quarterback. But I tell you what, I just I
can't see anywhere. I'm telling you, Buck, I'm forty four
to three. That's what I think is going to happen.
I'm facing Ashley's defense this week in fantasy football in playoffs,
I face the Seahawks defense I'm expecting thirty points from them,
(09:44):
I hope so. I mean, I think they're going to
run the football with Jonathan Taylor, but I just can't
imagine they can put too much on his plate. I
can't imagine he even fathoms how the speed of the
game and when you're away from it for two weeks
it catches up to you five years, twenty five pounds later.
(10:07):
I mean, stepping off a high school football field. I
don't care how good Philip Rivers once was. This seems
impossible to me. I mean, maybe I'll be proven wrong
and I'll be here on Monday telling you what an
amazing story it is, and how Philip Rivers should have
done this long ago, and that man Brady should come
(10:28):
out of retirement if this is so easy, and Peyton Manning,
you know, tape up your neck, boy, get out there. Obviously,
it's very easy. Eli Manning, what are you doing on
the couch?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Play some football?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You're not one hundred yet, clearly inside your fifties. You
can still play football in the National Football League.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
But we'll see.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I'm expecting it to be an absolute s show, unfortunately
for Philip Rivers.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
On Sunday, well, it very well could be.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
I mean, just when you start putting everything together, the Seahawks,
the way in which they're play defensively, the way in
which they haven't, you know, the last couple of weeks,
when they've played a team that is inferior to them,
they've just put it on them. I mean, I mean
absolutely ran away with it. You know, imposed their will
made a statement, whatever cliche you want to use, it's
(11:15):
they've been doing that. I'll just say, I mean, to me,
their defense is unbelievable. You still got to go out
and play, because, yeah, while that's the most important position
on the field, there's still ten other dudes on offense
they're gonna be playing with him, and a decent defense,
a defense that had carried that team with Daniel Jones,
many of which would have said, you know, when he
(11:38):
was with the Giants, a lot of people thought you
couldn't be better than a sixty four year old Philip Rivers,
and I don't think that was necessarily correct based on
the way that he played a majority of this season.
And yet there's so you still got to go out
and you've got to kind of prove that the facts
are the facts that you are head and shoulders above
(11:59):
this team and not make a bunch of crucial mistakes
because all of a sudden, if he goes out there
and with the little bit of knowledge that you can
get in a short week of practice with a new team,
even though you know the offense, but you don't you
haven't been throwing passes. You haven't been seeing guys coming
at you live most certainly, you haven't seen Mike McDonald's
guys coming at you the way.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
That they do.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
If you just give them short fields and it's hey,
just don't turn the ball over and get a three,
and then don't turn you turn the ball over and
they get three, and next thing you know, you break
coverage and there's a seven. Next thing you know, you
can find yourself in a ball game where the pucker
factor will start to come in because you're like, how
in the heck are we letting this happen? Because you
would feel I think if you're on the field, you
would feel the what the narrative around it is, if
(12:42):
all of a sudden, you're in the fourth court and
you're behind Philip Rivers five years removed from taking an
NFL snap, Now that seems really far fact.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, if we get to that point, I'll buy your point.
But I just what my point is. I don't see
any scenario possible that you get to that point.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I okay, so just a couple of weeks ago watching
the Denver Broncos game. But the defense was one of
the best in the NFL has been for the entire season,
and they're going against Marcus Mariota, who has really never
proven that he's great at the NFL level, and he
absolutely diced up the secondary that was was not nobody
had diced him up. So there was a game plan
(13:23):
that kind of fit into every once in a while,
if you catch them while they're doing that moving around.
How Hugh talks about there's a way in which you
can get it done. I don't see Philip Rivers being
able to do that on short notice. But I wouldn't
put it out of the room of possibilities. I'm just
not at the point where I'm like, I have no
understanding how this could be anything other than forty four
to three.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I can see definite ways of which you could.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I'm just saying I don't see anyway that there's a
not a blowout. I might not be as aggressive as
forty four to three. But that's just that's what I'm thinking.
That it ends up. And Marcus Mariota has been playing
all year long and he's actually pretty good versus somebody
that hasn't played in five years, five years, not playing
quarterback in the National Football League, at an advanced age,
(14:07):
at an advanced weight.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I just how do you do it?
Speaker 7 (14:12):
He's going to have three practices, three.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Practices, hasn't been tackled in five years. I don't care
how much he's been slinging the ball around the yard
with his high school wide receivers. Yeah, I mean, I
just I just don't think anybody in Indianapolis realizes how
difficult this is going to be. I don't think Philip
Rivers understands how difficult this is going to be. I
(14:35):
just don't see how it's even humanly possible. I mean,
I've watched a game with where the forty nine Remember
when forty nine Ers lost brock Perty and they didn't
have a quarterback and Christian.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Was it Christian McCaffrey had to throw the ball or something.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
No, it was like a wide receiver, an emergency quarterback.
That's how I think.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
It's going to be Caffrey.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's how I think it's going to be. I mean,
I just don't see how he could even have a
chance out there without grossly turning the ball over or
I just think that's the type of day it's going
to be. I think you're looking at like a five
turnover day from Philip Rivers.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
I mean, I just look at the last two games,
and it was thirty seven to nine against the Falcons
and twenty six nothing against the Vikings. Credited the Vikings
had a rookie quarterback, but you you did thirty seven
to nine against the Kirk Cousins, who has been playing.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
He's been playing, yeah, and so I just I think.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
If you gave him a couple of weeks, it wouldn't
it wouldn't be the same story. But three practices and
you haven't played in five years, and so it's not
even just a Philip Rivers thing. You haven't played with
this offense, like you don't know you you and the
receivers don't have a relationship yet. You don't know where,
you know, the timing and all of those things that
(15:50):
the intricacies of football, you can't you can't figure that
out with a team in three days.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Right as a Seahawk fan, I hope I'm wrong. I
hope it's a really interesting thing.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
I hope it's seventy five.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I want to win. But I hope it's a really
interesting game, And I think it's a really good story
if it is. I mean, he doesn't have to win,
he just has to, Like, I mean, it's going to
be a great story either way. Yeah, even if he
goes out there and makes the biggest fool of himself
that we've ever seen in the history of the NFL,
it's still going to be a great story that he's
(16:27):
even attempting this. So I hope I'm wrong. I hope
he I hope he plays well. I hope it's a
competitive game. I hope we win that competitive game. That's
my hope. I just put me in the category with
the most extreme opinion on this of it not working.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
But that's where I am.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I just don't see how you can do this at
the National Football League level and live to tell the tale.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Well, I think there's probably a better chance that the
how fast the game is and the fact that he
hasn't had the I mean He's been hit plenty of
times and so you get it. But the idea of
not having been hit and then getting just crushed in
the pocket, I mean, getting through this game healthy would
be my main concern for him being able to, you know,
(17:16):
throw the ball to somebody that he thinks is open
and fitted into a little window. I think that he
can do that from time to time. Now, it's just
the all the experience that he had. He didn't have
any experience going against a defense that just looked like this.
So it's kind of one of those, Man, that's the
best thing that you're bringing to the table is you
know the NFL. Well, you don't know this version of
(17:36):
the NFL. This one is different. Mike McDonald wasn't even
in the NFL when you last took a snap, and
so it's going to be I mean, it's uphill sledden
or I mean a tough go.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I mean, I don't necessarily see this being that close
of a game, But I think there's plenty of quarterbacks
that he would be able to, maybe after a little
bit more than three practices, compete with that are still playing.
And even though he's forty four years old. And you know,
I mean he retired uh twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Season with practice, with some time, if he had a
full training camp, maybe maybe I give Philip Rivers a
chance to do that. Yeah, but to show up Wednesday
and be ready to face an NFL defense on Sunday.
Not to mention this defense.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
On the road.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Yeah, As I said, any chance for flags on him,
just full flag and then he's down that way, you
don't injure him.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
show today.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
What's on tip? What's on tap?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Hugh Millan will be with us today at nine o'clock
to do some ex's and o's regarding the Seahawks and
the Colts. Mike Holmgren will be with us today at
eight thirty, so we'll chat with him at a different
time today. Normally it's nine thirty. Today, we'll do it
at eight thirty. And Greg Bell will be with us
as well at seven oh fons we'll get the latest
information from him. Of course, he's already about thirty beers
(19:02):
in to his Army Navy weekend, and so it's always
interesting on Friday morning of Army Navy weekend to check
in with Greg. He usually has a bunch of Army
buddies with him in the car, and he's usually in
the best mood he's been in all year long. So
I'm looking forward to checking in with Greg from Baltimore
(19:23):
at seven oh five today. Heisman Trophy is going to
be announced Saturday as well. Kind of an interesting college
football triple header. Never really had this happen before. We've
never put a bowl game on the same day as
the Army Navy game. Just has never happened. And yet
we've got Army Navy and then you've got Heisman at
four o'clock, and then you've got the La Bowl featuring
(19:45):
the Huskies at five o'clock, all on Saturday. Sharon Moore
is still in jail and is not going to have
his court appearance until later on today. So obviously a
pretty serious sitch going on beyond just him losing his
job as the Michigan football coach.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Sharon Moore is.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I mean, I think he'd be out of jail right
now if this wasn't a serious charge. But obviously there's
something serious going on there with the now former Michigan coach.
We'll talk about this a little bit later on in
the show as well. It was a huge topic yesterday.
College Basketball dub takes on Southern Utah tomorrow at three o'clock.
I don't know how they threw a Southern Utah in
(20:29):
the middle of the Big Ten schedule. That just got going,
but that's the matchup. And of course, the Husky's coming
off a huge win over then undefeated USC on Saturday.
They haven't played a game since. Koogs will be in
action tomorrow, assuming on Sunday at four point thirty against
USC and the Zags playing Ucla tomorrow night. Kraken coming
(20:49):
off a win, we'll get ready to take on the
Mammoth in Utah. That will take place tonight. And of course,
if you haven't checked out the latest episode of Stove
with Anders Hurst and myself, it is available to you
at ninety three threekjr dot Com. We'll talk a little
bit about that as well later on in the program.
But coming up next in case you missed it, had
(21:09):
a great opportunity back Monday to talk to Chris Peterson
about the college football playoff and other things, and so
we're going to replay some of that just in case
you missed it. Right here on Chuck and Bucksports Radio
ninety three point three KJRFM. Good morning, it is Chuck
Obuck in the morning. It is a Football Friday sponsored
by Tito's Handmade Vodka, proud sponsor of the Seahawks, distilled
(21:32):
unbottled by Fifth Generation at Austin, Texas, forty percent alcohol
by volume, saver Responsibly, Ashley, Bucky and Chuck with you
here on this football Friday. Greg Bell joins us later
Mike Holmgren, Hugh millin our normal cast of experts as
we get you ready for the football weekend. But we're
gonna go all the way back to Monday, coming out
(21:52):
of the college football playoff announcements, where we had a
great opportunity to chat with former UDW head coach Chris p. Pteron,
who is now with Fox Sports, so is stayed in
the college football game, and he seemed like the perfect
guy to bring on to react to the college football playoff,
and we talked about other things with him as well,
(22:14):
And it seems like a wasted opportunity if we don't
replay some of that for you who some of you
who might have missed it, So in case you missed it,
our conversation with coach Peterson a few minutes from it,
and we are going to start with the drama. We
asked him about the drama in today's college game and
what changes he might make in order to stem some
(22:36):
of it.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
You know, the Fansville commercial of doctor Pepper. Yeah, you know,
a couple of years ago, I just chuckled those commercials
and get a kick out of them. Now they're not
dramatic enough, like college football ahead of the fan though,
there's more drama going on in those than the commercial.
I think another thing. I think another thing that you know,
(22:57):
and again the networks would have to get on board
with it. But like I think the college football season
needs to start earlier. I think we need to start
in the you know, two weeks earlier in August. Everybody's
dying for football at that point anyways, And I really
think this whole thing needs to be done by early January.
(23:20):
January first, and for a couple of reasons. One then,
let the NFL go have their their Heyday. Don't compete
in there, you know. I the games were so spread
out last year that I kind of felt myself losing
a little interest in the college football playoffs, and and
you're putting, you know, the NFL playoffs in between. And
(23:40):
I'm more of a college football guy than I am
a NFL guy, but so that was a little awkward.
And then you can then also shift the academy, you know,
the football calendar around the academic calendar. I mean, it
is ridiculous that we're having coaches, you know, and it's
been going around for a while, but Lee their programs
(24:01):
that kids are opting out going into the transfer portal
while the season's still going on. So you got to
play the season, get that over with. Then you got
to sign your high school kids. Then after that you
can sign your portal guys. And there's going to probably
need to be some adjustments to springball. Although these coaches
(24:22):
are old school people and they don't like change and
they want that spring football how it's always been. But
I you know, I look at the NFL how they
do their quote spring football. It's later, it's not as
much pass, not as much contact. I mean, I see
that model. And then you know, the kids are all
here for the summer, the coaches are here. They can
(24:43):
now coach them in the summertime, so you kind of
just blend into that and so anyway, there's just so
many things that you're trying to figure out. It's it's
not it's unending.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Don't I know you don't want the job, but you
sound like a commissioner. Sound like you got some answers there.
Coach Peterson is this year on chucking buck in the morning.
I do want to ask you because well, I think
I already know the answer, but I want to hear
how you verbalize it. I'm sure you think Notre Dame
is not doing the right thing by announcing they're sitting
(25:15):
out the bulls.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, I mean again, here we go, Fansville. Right, We've
had like players coaches opting out, and now we've got
teams opting out. It's like, are we serious here? You
know you know what I think about I think about
BYU a little bit, because you know, here's the team
that got beat by the number four team in the
country twice, and they really haven't said a whole lot.
(25:39):
So the word on the three was that BYU was
gonna play Notre Dame in that pop tart bull which
would have been a really cool matchup. BYU can make
a case that two years in a row they've kind
of been snubbed a little bit, but they're gonna go
on and play. I mean, I don't know. This is
a hard one for me because I get the emotion
and how Notre Dame feels like they were so wronged,
(26:02):
but it also feels like, Okay, I'm going to take
my ball and go home now. And you guys said,
you know how I come, and I say, yes, I'm
still an old school guy that we're teaching. Like, you know,
there's so many things that this is why I love
football so much. It's like the trojan horse. It's the
trojan horse values that we're teaching. There's so much life
(26:23):
that we're still teaching through this game. And one of
those things are is like being extremely disappointed and things
don't go your way and you still got to figure
out how to do your best and navigate through that.
It's like, okay, so what now? What I mean, that's
what I think about, Like, Okay, this happened to us,
(26:44):
So what now? What are we going to go home?
Are we going to lay down? Are we going to respond?
And so I think about that. I think Notre Dame,
you know, is going to be really good next year.
And so you're kind of throwing all that away in
terms of practicing, putting a chip on your shoulder, go
out and prove it against a really good team and
set yourself up for next year. I understand both sides
(27:06):
of this. I would have loved to see them play
against BYU.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I would love to see you coach again. Are you
really not going to coach again? And it is like
Sandy Kofax hanging it up? I mean, you got something
left in the tank here, Peterson? Are you really done?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
One of the things that I do now that I
really find a lot of probably joy purpose in. So
I'm not coaching on the sidelines, but I do. I
do some stuff with a handful of coaches, and so
I find a lot of purpose. Like all the things
that we're talking about here, help them coaches navigate this
(27:40):
really difficult arena that we're in right now, and it
is tricky, tough, and it's like it's really about it
comes back to ourselves, you know, with all the things
that are being thrown, how do we show up every day?
Is our best? You know? We put that always on
our kids. We demand so much out of the kids
and the players and expect them to bring their best
energy their best face, focused day in and day out,
(28:02):
but half the time we don't show up as our
best because this arena is so like twenty four seven
three sixty five, and it squeezes us and narrows us
and makes us not our best but our worst version
in some cases. And so I find a lot of
purpose in helping coaches navigate that. And I think the
bottom line is that and this is why I stepped
(28:24):
away when I was trying to really get clarity on
this whole thing that I had this beautiful job at
you Dub but wasn't happy. And I think I've just
come to the conclusion that I love football. I love teaching, coaching,
leading all those type of things and helping people navigate that.
But when you jump back in to that arena and
stand on the sidelines, you live a very, very narrow life.
(28:47):
That is what you do twenty four seven three sixty five.
And at this point in my life, I just don't
want to.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Live that narrow Chris Peterson with us earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
He was great.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
If you want to hear the entire interview, do so
at ninety three three Kjar dot com. And I think
this probably needs to be said at a public service announcement.
Because we spent a lot of time Ashley and I
yesterday railing on coaches in college football for their lack
of commitment to their contracts and the people that they've
convinced to trust them. So we spent a lot of
(29:18):
time railing on this. So this Michigan thing pops up,
and every single former UDUB head coach apparently is in
the running for Yah for the job, I mean Debor
and Fish and didn't hear Sark.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Maybe I didn't hear Sark Dick Baird.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I think Dick Baird got mentioned yesterday. So every single coach,
it seems like, associated with Washington, including Chris Peterson that's
actually true, was being linked to the Michigan job. And
so we kind of went off on coaching yesterday. And
it's unfair because Caitlin Debor has shot it completely down,
(29:54):
and even though we haven't really heard Jed shoot it
completely down. I think he's tired of con instantly having
announced that he's going to stay at you Dub, and
so maybe he was rolling his eyes all day yesterday
and then you just said, Chris Peterson, he has no
interest in coaching anywhere I don't care how prestigious that
the program is. He could be coaching in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Right now if he wanted to.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
He could be coaching any number of programs. And so
we run with rumors and then we talk about them
as talk show hosts. And I think that that's in bounds,
and I think that Jetfish's history, he's earned that. But
the truth of the matter is, we talk about these
rumors and then you have Chris Peterson saying that's ridiculous.
I'm not coaching anywhere, and you get it actually from
(30:40):
the horse's mouth. So you know, let's spend I just
wanted to spend thirty seconds saying it's Jetfish. Kaylin de
Boor and Chris Peterson have no like immediate link to
this job. Their names just came up in rumors.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Yeah, yeah, that would be a good fit.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
The national thoughts seemed like that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yep, right.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
I mean Chris Peterson's he loved his job, or he
loved where he was at a situation here, he just
wanted to stop being having to be so singularly focused
just doing the job that he just explained perfectly, you'd
basically do nothing about that job that's it, and it's
just is. While it's wonderful and beautiful for a period
(31:23):
of your life, there's He's not the only coach that
probably feels that some of them may be sticking out
beyond and wish that they would have shut it down
and stopped being, you know, kind of a slave to
that routine a little bit more than they are sooner
than they actually do. Once you basically jump ship for
something that you find better Calan to War did it
you know Jedfish has done it, then you're automatically going
(31:47):
to be linked if you're also considered a good coach, Yes, exactly.
So it's kind of if Jedfish worry about it, it
should be h I mean, if if your name never
came up, like I wonder if this guy, this guy's
a good fit. If it never came up, then you're
probably not doing a real good job coaching. And so
to some degree take it as a compliment. And at
(32:07):
the same time, if you there's part of that that's
annoying because you get you hear the question is, so
you're gonna leave again? If you hear it like, well,
you've left places, yes, deal with it.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
You've earned that record.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Yes, I mean I don't understand where the ruffled feathers
comes from, you know. To me, Like I said, it's
a there's a compliment, complimentary part of it, and then
there's another part of it. If you don't like it,
it's because that's you.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
You've done that well.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
They are calling it the LA Bowl, it really is
the Chris Peterson Bowl. It's Boise State versus Washington Saturday
at five o'clock. So if you want to check out
the Chris Peterson Bowl, We've got bowl season starting and
ending for you, dub this Saturday, all right, coming up next.
We do it every Friday before a Seahawks game. It's
no cliche. Keys to Victory on Chuck and Buck Sports
(32:53):
Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. We go round the
room here every Friday at six forty five, six fifty
to discuss our keys to victory for the Seahawks. But
we cannot use cliches like all three faces win the
turnover battle, winning the trenches.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
You know, So, Bucky, where are we gonna go?
Speaker 5 (33:17):
This one seems pretty easy? I mean, Jonathan Taylor just
I mean, you trust your dbs, you trust your secondary
that they're going to be able to do what they
have been doing against all NFL quarterbacks. As far as
kind of holding the passing game down, you just can't
let I mean, if there is one thing you have
to be somewhat concerned about, it's that the NFL's leading
(33:39):
rusher is coming into town and you let him get loose.
He can he can take it to the house, he
can grind it out. Twenty five thirty carries a game.
You have to basically just commit to that. Dude's not
beating us. If Philip Rivers comes off of his high
school coaching sideline and does something spectacular, or or you
cough up the ball and give them an opportunity, then
(34:02):
you know that's how sports work sometimes. But you just
flat out can't let that part of the game plan.
They're coming in saying, come on, Jonathan, carry us, we
need you, and he's gonna run as hard as he
possibly can. You gotta make it uphill sled in every
single second.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Even rushing champions against stack boxes in the National Football
League have a hard time being successful. So that's what
I would imagine. Jonathan Taylor's gonna face. He's gonna face
like thirteen men in the box.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, so that's that's that's how difficult of a day.
I mean, if yeah, I can he's good. They've got
some good players. They have some really good players on
the Indianapolis Colts team, and he's maybe the best of them.
All Right, Ashley, what do you go for your no
cliche key?
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Yeah, that was gonna be mine as well.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Just I mean, we talked about him the other day
and just going over his numbers and the games that
he you know, the wins and these stats where he's
been successful and the losses where they've kept him under
eighty yards. So you hold him under eighty yards and
you should be pretty much we're not worrying about a win.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
I mean it should be, especially considering what we're.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Dealing with in the passing game from them and the
uncertainty with Philip Rivers. If you can keep Jonathan Taylor
under eighty yards, it should be smooth sailing.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yeah, I'm gonna say cliche, but I'm going to defend it.
It's the trenches. It's in the trenches that's the key.
And the reason that I'm saying it is the key
is because I don't think Indianapolis has anything else. Again,
I might be the most extreme with my doubt as
to whether or not Philip Rivers can do this on Sunday,
(35:33):
but that's where I'm at. Yeah, And so to me,
they're going to try to run the ball all day
long with Jonathan Taylor, and they're going to when he
does throw, they're gonna throw really.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Quick, real short, real short.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Run after the catch, Tyler, get it to Tyler Warren
at the line of scrimmage, get it to Michael Pittman
at the line of scrimmage. That's the offense that they're
going to go with. So I think you only have
like two yards to defend.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
I think that's fair.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
I think the trenches is all you have to defend.
And if you give Mike McDonald that game plan, how
on earth does he not succeed with flying colors.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
I would assume he would.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
So that's gonna be my key, Just defend the trenches. Yeah,
And I just can't imagine Philip Rivers can beat you
over the top.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
I just can't imagine it.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
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