December 15, 2025 • 36 mins
Chuck’s all amped up thanks to his new coffee maker! The Seahawks eeked out a win over Phillip Rivers and the Colts and it was MUCH closer than we expected. 3 takeaways must be brought up from yesterday’s game: - Phillip Rivers return to the NFL was serviceable. He was a game-manager, but looked better than two of us expected. - Jason Myers was the MVP of that game, scoring all 18 points in the Seahawks win. - We should probably be concerned about this Seahawks offense… :30- It’s time to check the Board of scores, grab a cold turkey sandwich and enjoy! It’s our look at the NFL scores and headlines from week 15. :45- Coach Bucky is here! - How does he feel about Phillip Rivers’ return? Does every pro athlete want one more shot at it and will we see more guys come out of retirement now? - Jorge Polanco signed with the Mets, is Coach Bucky mad he’s gone?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Does that mean? Don't jumped any conclusions. Not a god,
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to.
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national champion.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
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Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hey, good morning, welcome in. It is a Monday. Great
to have you with us. I hope you had a
good weekend. Had some nice weather this weekend, which was
a nice little change up from all the rain that
has been descending upon us. But the rain is back
here this morning. Hopefully we don't have many further messes
that we've had here for the last week or so.
(01:28):
Good to have you with us here on the show.
My name is Chuck Powell. Ashley Ryan is here, so
is former Mariner Bucky jacobsitting here on this Monday. So
much planned for you between now and ten o'clock. You
know how we do it on Mondays. We're pretty thorough now. Yeah,
we get dive into it. We dive deep, yeah, really deep.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And there's a lot to dive into. And I'll say
I think that I'm in a good shape for it.
I gave myself a little bit of an early Christmas present.
I got myself a coffee maker, and I kind of
overdid it in the last twenty four hours. I'm like
my thirty eighth cup. Yeah, so I'm kind of jittery.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Have you slept in the last several days or you
just coffee?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, just straight coffee. I got one of them ivy attachments.
Oh yeah, yeah, well fancy new ones. Yeah fancy hadn't heard.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Of that one.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, queasino.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I just smoked my coffee. I don't inject it.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
That's one way to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Actually, just mainlines it.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yeah, in the form of cherry coke zero right.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yes, uh she just drinks cherry cokes.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I do drink about two coffees a week now. Oh,
I'm turning into a real adult.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
A real coffee that you're drinking.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
No, probably not.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's probably souped up with a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
It's a brown sugar, shaking oat milk spread.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's not that's not a coffee.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
But I enjoyed those types of It's got a coffee
flavor kinda.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yeah, sometimes that's too much. I'm like, I need more
brown sugar.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Do you an old school one or did you get
one with I just got to drip one. Yeah, I
got to drip one. Yeah. We've had the pod thing,
and then lately I've just been using some just cheap
old thing just to get me through. And I'm like,
you know what I missed, Like the big, big brew
smell of coffee, just like lingering in the air.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So I just ran out and got myself an early
Christmas present.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Good for you, And then you just decided screw it.
I'll just drink coffee all night last night, this morning,
this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's just a little stronger. I mean, I really have
only had what six cups, but it's just a little stronger,
yeah than what I normally.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
When you say that, the word only needs to be
put in front of it. I mean it's six three am.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Just two this morning, just too this morning, Okay, yeah,
sixth since I bought it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well,
we've got a lot to discuss here today. Seahawks went
over the Colts yesterday eighteen to sixteen in a game
that I certainly did not expect. Jason Myers kicks six
six field goals in the game, and the Hawks proved
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to eleven and three on the season, which is really
all that matters as they get ready for the biggest
game of the year here in just a few days.
I mean, I think there are just three monster takeaways
from this game, and we'll try to hit all of
those three monster takeaways here in our first segment this morning.
And it starts first and foremost with the biggest story
this weekend in the National Football League, and that is
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the return to Philip Rivers. And obviously I went all
in on how on earth can he succeed being gone
for five years? Well, you saw it. He was on time,
he was There was one incident where he kind of
looked like he slipped on the ice. Yeah, you know.
Other than that, he didn't get overly harassed. He got
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rid of the football. He showed us how you can
sit on a sideline for five years and then come
out and be a functional quarterback in the National Football League.
I didn't see it coming. I made that very clear
all last week. But certainly he proved me wrong. And
as coach said, maybe he's the only one that could have.
(05:04):
I don't know, but all the credit in the world
to him. He almost guided the Indianapolis Colts to a
road win over arguably the best defense in the National
Football League. I didn't give him a chance. I was
dead wrong. Good for you, Philip Rivers, And as I
said last week, I'm happy that he was. I mean,
we came away with a win. We got the win,
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but it was a lot more interesting of a game
because Philip Rivers was functional, and the week in the
National Football the NFL is a lot more interesting now
that he's back, and it was already a ten out
of ten and interesting. So I give him all the
credit in the world. He held his own yesterday, and
I didn't think that he would.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, I mean he held his own. I mean, he
didn't do anything spectacular.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
He was.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I mean, he wasn't trying to push the ball down
the field. There was one of the early passes that
was outside that was kind of fluttering and you're like, ooh,
that shot put delivery that he's always had looked at
a little even more uglier than it did better in
a day, but it still was. He was effective, He
was on time. They had a game plan that was
like I guess you know, he had said before the game,
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I'm not expect I can't throw the wall sixty yards anymore. Well,
I don't even know if sure if you throw forty yards,
probably can on the video. Yeah, yeah, but he's not
going to He's not gonna be as accurate. Whereas the
little dump offs the game plan that we figured they
would try to implement, Yes that he did that, and
he did it very well. He was a game manager.
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I mean there was, you know, coming down the end
when they end up kicking the field goal to take
the lead before giving the lead back with fifty seconds
or whatever was left that when they ran it and
gave him a sixty some yard field goal, that was
one where I think the five years ago or majority
of his seventeen year career. You're trying to ice the
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game there. Yeah you're behind, you need a field goal,
but you're trying to get a first down and end
this with the field goal. You're kicking it with three
seconds left, and instead they ran it just get a
little bit closer. That was a situation where I think
they maybe I'll bet their second guess in it right
now because of the way that it ended up. But
I think that that.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Was because the way Mike McDonald used his timeouts.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, it was very good.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Five years ago you'd be like, what are you doing?
But in today's game, being able to preserve some clock
because odds are you're going to get the ball at
minimum the thirty yard line and you have a kicker
that can kick from sixty five, I think, yeah, then
you preserve the clock just in case you need it.
Needed a heck of a job.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Great job by him and his crew they come up
with those and to convince him to go ahead and
do that, sell those you know, spend those timeouts there,
because yeah, you gave yourself a chance.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It was.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
It was an interesting game. It was one where I
mean Philip Rivers didn't go out there and light it up.
But he managed the game like a veteran. Like I
thought maybe a veteran could do. It was going to
be uphill sledding against that defense. But the Indianabas Colts,
there's a they're scuffling now. Is a four in a
row and five out of six that they've lost. But
that's a good team. I mean, that's a team. They
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have a lot of talent on the defensive side. Their
offensive line, didn't They protected Philip Rivers enough to keep
the Seahawks off of them for the most part, so
that he could dank and dunk and find those guys.
And then he made a couple of really good throws.
The back shoulder throw that led them down to take
the lead late. That was a big throw and a
great catch. I mean, it was impressive considering how where
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he's been. I mean he was on the couch, you know,
basically watching it with his grandkid last week and then
now all of a sudden he's in there. To me,
the biggest age thing was him getting up off the
ground and I feel you on that, Philip Rivers. That's
where he looked the oldest is when he would have
to try to get up it's just not as easy
as it used to do.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I've just seen so many young I practice every week
quarterbacks just get overwhelmed by this sport. And I mean
I mentioned this several times last week. Matthew Stafford looked
confused when he faced the Mike McDonald defense not long ago,
and he might be the best player in the world
right now, and so, I mean, I just felt I mean,
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Hughes said something very interesting on Friday which stuck with
me all week and long. I hope he's It was
sort of a suggestion. I hope he's not successful. I
don't want him to look good playing quarterback because that
might suggest that it's not nearly as difficult as.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It truly is, as it was for me my whole career.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Or for anybody. And I don't think that he necessarily
made the quarterback position look easy. I didn't come away
with that thinking, oh, man, Hugh Millen, why does he
think that this is such a difficult thing to do?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yeah, I mean, if anyone could go in and do that, a.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Forty four year old can get off the couch after
five years and complete a few passes, then why these
quarterbacks make it look harder? Than it is. I mean,
I didn't come away with that, but I will say this,
he sort of gave you a textbook like those that
really struggle at it. Maybe you're making it too difficult
because he was functional, Yes, five years removed, and you're right,
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he didn't test the boundaries. They are the limits of
quarterback play. It wasn't anything pretty. But for somebody that
practiced twice this week, hasn't taken a hit in five years,
has been throwing when he does throw to high schoolers,
you know, for the last five years, for him to
come in there and be functional, I think it's a
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damn sports miracle. And yet I didn't think that he
was going to pull that off, and he did. Yeah,
absolutely did.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
I think functional is the right word to describe it.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
He went out there and he did the job with
the game plan that they had considering their starting quarterback
was out, and he executed it well. There was definitely
certain things you're looking at that you realize, well, this
isn't working because you've had two or three practices. You know,
you're missing receiver and floating balls over their head, things
like that that it's just the timing. They don't have
that and you wouldn't expect them to have that. And
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I think I definitely thought going into that he was
just going to get lit up, and you know, and
and the injury concern, I kept saying, put flags on him.
I'm worried he's gonna get hurt. And he didn't, and
he is. He held his own and he did a
good job.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And I was expecting that slip on the ice kind
of play. I was expecting like seven of those.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah too.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I was expecting at least a couple interceptions and he
really didn't throw any. The only one and that he
threw was at the end of the game, and yeah,
you can't even count that, yeah, in desperation moment. So
I give him, I give him a lot of credit
the other person. And I think this is the second
thing that has to be mentioned. And if you only
have one segment to talk about yesterday's game, this is
the second thing that has to be mentioned. Jason Myers
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has been unbelievable this year. I mean there's one there
are two guarantees of Pro Bowl from the Seahawks roster,
and they are JSN and Jason Myers. I mean that's
I got guarantee at this point. That guy has been
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sensational this year. And I can't tell you how many
times that I've felt this season that we should be
talking more about Jason Myers because he's turned automatic on
us here this season. And obviously Mike McDonald has gone
for it on fourth down fewer than any head coach
in the National Football League, So obviously he feels like
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Jason Myers is a guaranteed three points right now, and
he is even with the game on the line, even
the remember how he would succeed on the long field
goals and struggle with the extra points there for a
year and a half or so. I mean, he's just guaranteed,
no matter where you are on the field, even with
fifty you know, with four seconds remaining from fifty six yards,
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just as true as can be. So we certainly have
to talk about Jason Myers and the excellence that he's
brought to the kicking game this year.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yeah, I don't know for sure. I mean, typically if
you rely on your kicker to make six field goals,
you're probably not going to win a bunch of games,
right you want to finish some of those drives. But
considering that, the recipe that you were going up against,
which is somebody that practiced, you know, a couple of days,
hadn't been doing anything but coaching high school football for
the last five years. They weren't. So you weren't going
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against you know, the Patrick Mahomes led you know Chiefs
that we've watched over the majority of the last decade.
You were going against the team that you knew maybe
twenty points might be all that it takes, and obviously
eighteen was all that it took, and so you could
settle for those those field goals. Now you're not going
to want to do that. That was not the convincing
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win that you've been watching for the better part of
the last couple months when they've gone out there and
you basically coming here on Mondey, we're talking about this
is Super Bowl continuing, maybe Super Bowl favorites, and it's
best in the NFC, and even after a loss against
a division foe like the Rams. So I think that
there's obviously room for improvement. But that's the one area
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that you don't have to worry about for sure, and
that's a big one. It's a big one come playoff time.
You want to have a solid kicker that you feel
you can run out there. That last kick that he
made probably would have been good from sixty five, and
it definitely would have been good from sixty.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Well, and you think about the pressure on that last
one too, So just all of it, I mean, any
you know, obviously, especially when your offense isn't getting in
the end zone, any kick, you're going to be dealing
with pressure on it. But for that one, in that moment,
we were at the game, and I know it wasn't silent,
but it felt like everything just kind of stood still
as you're waiting for him to kick that through there,
and it was in the We're on that north end
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zone and it was kicking it towards us, and I
just remember like it felt like slow motion watching it
go through the goalposts and think like, oh my gosh.
And but he the rest of the kicks the rest
of the day, I didn't feel like there was any
pressure watching him.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
I was like, Oh, he's going to do this.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, I hope I get to Heaven. My guess is
that when I get there, there won't be any kickers.
Probably not. Yeah, that's that's my fields.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
No punters.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And yet Jason, I'll let you in the Pearly game.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, because you've just been that special third thing that
has to be mentioned this morning, and that is, you know,
you got to be a little bit concerned about this
offense here in the second half of the season. It
hasn't been nearly as potent and for this team to
have to settle for six field goals against I mean,
the Indianapolis colt is a pretty good team, but you're
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not going against the Houston Texans. That's not the Houston
Texans defense out there. Uh, And so there's got to
be some concern. There were there were some moments of
a little too conservative I felt that play calling from
Clint Kubiak, and when you have to huddle your entire
offense on the sideline at one point to you have
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an all offense meeting in the middle of the game.
Obviously Clint Kubiak's not too happy with where they're at
right now. Either. You're getting ready for this key stretch.
You're getting ready for your biggest three games of the year,
and the biggest one's gonna happen in three days, and
you better be better offensively than what you have been
for the last month.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well, the fact that they I mean, I guess it's
working so far. I mean, you find yourself at what
eleven and three, and you have your destiny in your
own hands coming up this Thursday. And yet, yeah, the
inconsistency of it, where against bad teams they now have
what four different halves that they've scored thirty points or
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more and a half. I mean that is like wow,
bank bank bank. They can be explosive, and yet then
there's times that they don't do anything. And yet they
stick to run in the ball. And we heard Pete
Carroll for years, we got to run the ball more.
We're going to run the ball more. Well, the Clint
Kubiak does that. They run the ball more than anybody,
and yet they're not super efficient. Yesterday was one of
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the worst. Yeah, and perform you are not going to
You're not going to win a bunch of games against
playoff caliber teams if you're averaging two yards of carry
and still just deciding Nope, we're gonna still run it
about a fifty to fifty split here, maybe even a
little bit more. You're gonna there's and I don't know
for sure if that affects Darnald at times like almost
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like let him get into a rhythm a little bit
when he's passing instead of noe. We got to get
back to the run again, you know. We got to
keep him honest with the run game. So there's concerns
for sure. I'm sure that that Clint Kubiak, while he
went to bed happy with a W, was not happy
with how the offense looks right now.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Yeah, especially in that first half. Just I mean they looked.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Especially the first half three weeks in a row.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Yes, exactly what I was as we were watching it.
I'm thinking like, oh my gosh, this is just like
last week. But then I would tell myself, well, maybe
they're going to come out and have a great third quarter,
but you got to have more than one good quarter
of football.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Do you do when you have to face the top
competition And look, you beat a Phillip Rivers led Colts
team at home on the strength of six for six
from your kicker, but you're facing the Rams, the Panthers
who are buying for a title in Carolina and then
San Francisco. You gotta play your best. If you're gonna
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pull this off, you got to play your best, and
we have not seen them play their best since what Commanders.
I mean, they blew away the Cardinals forty four to
twenty two, but I think it's been since that command Well,
they were good against the Rams, but they lost. I
think that they haven't played a complete game since the
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Washington Commanders. And that's saying something because they've won what
six of their last seven games. But we'll have time
today to talk about all of it. So let's find
out what is on tap for today's show.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
What's on TEP?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
What's untep?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Seahawks eighteen Colts sixteen Monday Morning quarterback Today. Hugh Millen
will join us at eight o'clock. Mike Homern will join
us at nine o'clock. So two hours of just full
throttle analysis from two of the best in the business.
As we look forward to that. Also, Greg Bell will
be with us today at seven o five to give
us the latest and greatest in covering the Hawks. He's
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fresh back from the Army Navy game and having covered
the Hawks game yesterday. The National Football League, the biggest
stories yesterday revolved around injuries. Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas
City Chiefs were eliminated from the playoffs yesterday, and to
add injury to insult Patrick Mahomes with less than two
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minutes to go in the game, ended up tearing his ACL.
Was helped off of the field and he is out
for the rest of the season and part of next season.
Micah Parsons also torn ACL was removed from the Packers game,
so he's lost for the rest of the year for
the Green Bay Packers. And DeVante Adams for the Rams
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went down late as well in their game against the
Detroit Lions. It's a hamstring issue, not nearly as serious
as the other two, but obviously when you're facing the
Rams this week, it'll be very interesting to see if
the Rams can get him ready to play by Thursday night.
We will start the countdown to that game tonight. There's
no reason to wait around. We'll start it today. I
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should say Rams at Seahawks this Thursday. To this point,
the game of the year, the week in the National
Football League will wrap up tonight. It'll be the Dolphins
at the Pittsburgh Steelers. A Monday night football frostbrewed corselight,
choose chill Monday. Counting you down to this game. At
five point fifteen, you double one the LA Bulls thirty
eight to ten over Boise State Saturday night, and of
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course Jedfish is facing all of those Michigan rumors. The
Wolverines have still yet to name their head coach. They're
panicked in Arizona State. I know that over Kenny Dillingham
possibly taking the job. Jedfish, his name is still out there,
and Kaylin de Boor has gone out of his way
to deny his interest in the but.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Who knows, which means he'll probably take it to me.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, yeah, probably Fernando Mendoz who won the Heisman Saturday.
Navy did edge Army in a terrific game Saturday in Baltimore.
The college Football Playoff starts Friday with Alabama at Oklahomajre
Polonko signed with the Mets over the weekend. Does that
mean he's not coming back to us? Is that what
that means?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I think that doesn't mean that.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Oh shoot, we'll talk about that later on in the show.
The Kraken have lost eight of nine games. Now they'll
take on the Avalanche tomorrow. It feels like they're already
in a must win kind of situation. And you dub
one over Southern Utah Saturday and college hoops they won't
play again until Seattle. You this Friday. I don't know
what happened. Why are we playing this one game a week?
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What happened with the schedule on that. I'm not really
sure how that happened. So a lot to discuss today.
But when we come back cold Turkey Sandwich a board
of scores, our look around the National Football League on
KJR saw first and.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Goal from the four McCarthy of a shotgun, three receivers
to the right, single man out to the left. McCarthy
brings Hawkins in a short motion for the right, takes
the snap back to pass Piers right side wide open.
Naylor call it for the touchdown, second.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Of the night per Jalen Naylor, and with.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Nine to twelve to go in the game, the Vikings
have a thirty to twenty three.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Lead, the extra point coming up.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Naylor with two touchdowns all year coming in two tonight
here in Dallas, west Wood one.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
On the call right here at kJ ARN last night
as thirty four to twenty six, Minnesota Vikings wrapped up
the Sunday in the National Football League with a win
over the Dallas Cowboys in Dallas. JJ McCarthy maybe his
finest game from beginning to end that he's played as
a pro. Meanwhile, Dallas falls to six seven and one,
so they are just one eagle win or their loss
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from being eliminated from the NFC East title. They kept
settling for field goal attempts. Brandon Aubrey kicked goal attempts
in the game, only made four of them, and the
Vikings win by eight. But there were more interesting games played.
It's time for a cold turkey sandwich. That's right, a
board of scores for you here on this Monday morning
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on Chuck and Buck, and we'll start within the NFC West,
where the Los Angeles Rams win a shootout over Detroit
forty one to thirty four. They along with the Seahawks,
improved to eleven and three on the season in time
for their matchup this Thursday right here in Seattle. They
outscored Detroit twenty seven to ten to close out the game.
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Both quarterbacks looked terrific. Stafford at three hundred and sixty
eight passing yards to Goff's three thirty eight in that
matchup of quarterbacks once upon a time traded for one
another very entertaining game, but the Rams found another way
to win.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah, and that's what they seem to be doing this
entire season, right, even when they're going against somebody tough
and maybe find themselves behind at halftime, they make the
adjustments and come out. The Lions, for whatever reason, just
don't seem to be clicking on all Slanders wasn't a
bad game to put up thirty four against that defense
is commendable, and yet there's a reason why they're eight
and six. They just have a hard time finding ways
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to win against some of the better teams out there.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
The Rams will close out with at Seattle, at Atlanta
and home against Arizona, so not exactly the most difficult schedule.
So the Seahawks better win Thursday if they want a
shot if they're going to win this NFC West San
Francisco is hanging right there thirty seven to twenty four.
They won over the Titans yesterday Purty three touchdown passes says.
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The Niners improved to ten and four on the air.
Just a game back and they will be at Indianapolis,
so they get to face Philip Rivers next week, home
against the Bears and home against the Seahawks. Much more
difficult schedule for them.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yeah, I mean, I think the toughest is probably the
Seahawks schedule with the Niners next and the Rams with
the third most difficult out of those teams vying for
the NFC West, and yet there's just so much riding
on this game. I mean, you're not talking just division,
You're talking number one overall seed possibly, so big game,
big game coming up here on short notice.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You're not even completely out of the woods and just
making the playoffs, right, That's how top heavy that the
league has been this year, with the haves and the
have nots, so a lot of work to do now.
The biggest stories of the week happened to be on
the injury front, and by the way, Devonte Adams did
leave the Rams game with a hamstring, so we'll see
if he'll be ready by Thursday. But more serious injuries
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occurred to two of the biggest names in the National
Football League, including the biggest. Patrick Mahomes. Season came to
an end he tore his ACL less than two minutes
to go in regulation play. Kansasity Chiefs were eliminated from
playoff contention, and Mahomes obviously out for the season and
likely to miss some of next season. With a torn
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acl sixteen to thirteen, the final score the Chargers over
the Kansas City Chiefs. One of the most interesting stats
you will here in your entire life is that Tom
Brady never took a meaningless snap his entire career. In
other words, Tom Brady was every snap he took was
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he had not been eliminated from the playoffs his entire career.
Patrick Mahomes same thing. Yep, every snap that he's taken
in and that will be preserved, right because he's not
going to take another snap for the rest of the season.
That will be preserved. But that's how great this guy
has been. I think he's going to bounce back just fine.
This Yeah, maybe this run with Andy Reid and the
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Chiefs is over with Travis Kelcey, but Patrick Mahomes has
still got ten years good years left in the National
Football League, and I think they will resurrect just fine. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Well, I mean, he's good enough that he didn't have
to have the same supporting cast. He kind of is
the team. And I'm with you. I mean, nowadays, the
idea of an Aco, you boy, how are you going
to come back from it? There's people that are running
backs that come back from he used to be blow
your acl out his running back. You're done. You just
aren't gonna come back the same. It's not the case anymore.
It is gonna be interesting because he's a missed miss
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apportion of next season, and so what they do in
the interim isn't gonna be interesting. But I'm with you,
Tom Brady. I think blew his knee out in his
ninth season. Yeah, and he came back and ended up
winning what four Super Bowls that after the fact, So
I don't know if he's necessarily going to do that.
But I don't think the Patrick Mahomes era is over
by any stress.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I don't even I think he's gonna have another I
think I think he's got another second half ahead of them.
But certainly they got to retool some things in Kansas City.
There's no doubt that this team's not good enough right
now to win the championship in the NFL, and it's
that's fine. The Denver Broncos moved a step closer to
taking over the rings in the AFC West. They defeated
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the Green Bay Packers thirty four to twenty six. Bo
Knicks four touchdown passes, he keeps getting better. I mean,
he looks really good. Meanwhile, green Bay Micah Parson. He's
out for the season as well with a torn acl
So green Bay with that big blockbuster trade, we'll have
to get things done without Micah Parsons. They fall a
half game out of first place to Chicago.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah, that's crazy how they went to how quickly it
swings right now, the ebbs and flows of the NFC
and the standings, because like you said earlier, how top
heavy it is.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Chicago won yesterday thirty one to three over the Cleveland Browns.
So the Bears are in first place at ten and four.
I'm going to make a prediction they don't make the
playoffs because their schedule the rest of the way is
home against the Packers at San Francisco and home against Detroit.
I think it comes down to the Bears or Detroit
and that last game of the year for the final
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playoff spot, believe it or not. And so Chicago's got
a lot of work left to do, but it's been
a successful ride thus far with a ten and four record.
Cleveland fell to three and one. Miles Scarett has twenty
one and a half sacks, so he's one shy of
the NFL for most sacks in a season, and he
will have three weeks to get that done. Something tells
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me he's gonna get it by plenty. The Buffalo Bills
and the New England Patriots played a wild game yesterday.
New England was up twenty one to nothing and at
halftime twenty four to seven, but after throwing up on
the sidelines, Josh Allen then threw up three touchdown passes
and Buffalo rallied to win thirty five to thirty one.
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To remind the Patriots, we're still the big dog. It's
gonna be a little harder to knock us off the
top of the mountain.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Yeah. Well, I mean, if Drake May thought that a
half of football is enough to end up beating you know,
Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bill's good luck. I mean,
that's a team that's dangerous. Of all the really weird
turnover in the AFC right now, with Patrick Mahomes going
to be on the outside looking in, that still is
that one, dude, That's that's kind of gonna be lurking
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there in the playoffs. Probably that you never can give up.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
On time to give the Jacksonville Jaguars credit. They are smoking.
How they are to be taken seriously. They are playing
like a championship team. Championship teams just destroyed the teams
they're supposed to. Now just beat them. They're destroying the
teams they're supposed to and they're rising up against the
big challenges as well. They won five straight games and
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Trevor Lawrence has never played better. Five touchdown passes, forty
eight to twenty winners over the New York Jets yesterday.
Jaguars are ten and four on the season and in
first place. But Houston's just as hot. The Texans have
won sixth straight. They took care of business, doubling up
the Cardinals yesterday forty to twenty the final score there
So Jacksonville ten and four, Houston nine to five, Colts
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eight and six. That's the pecking order right now. In
the AFC South. The Carolina Panthers. What a terrible loss.
They had a chance to win and move into first
place in their division, and instead they go on the
road and lose to a three win team in New Orleans.
And to make matters worse, they had a roughing the
passer penalty that set up the game winning field goal,
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Otherwise they would have at least had overtime to try
to defeat New Orleans. Now Carolina gets ready to face
Tampa Bay this Sunday with first place on the line
in that division. Washington twenty nine twenty one winners over
the New York Giants. The Giants right now have the
number one pick in the National Football League. The Raiders
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have the number two pick as they were skunked by
the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday thirty one to nothing. Glad that
game was on our national television broadcast. That was really fun.
And Baltimore, speaking of shutouts, shut out the Cincinnati Bengals
twenty four to nothing. Joe Burrow and the Bengals officially
eliminated from playoff contention. Baltimore moves to seven and seven,
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and we'll watch with keen interest tonight to see if
the Miami Dolphins can keep their winning ways going in
Pittsburgh against the Steelers. They lost by the Steelers, and
Baltimore jumps them into first place. So there you go.
There's your cold turkey sandwich, A board of scores for
you here on Monday, Coach Bucky joins US next Sports
Radio ninety three point three KJRFL you Milline at eight
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until ten o'clock today, Coach Holngrin from nine until ten
o'clock today. Eighteen sixteen Seahawks win over the Indianapolis Colts
despite the inspirational performance by Philip Rivers yesterday coming off
his couch at age forty four, getting two days of
practice and performing functionally if nothing else, against the Seahawks
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on Sunday right here in Seattle, and had a chance
to win the game. So I asked coach Bucky, who
joins us here, do you think he will be a
form of inspiration? A lot of former quarterbacks that don't
think are athletes in general, who don't think they'll miss
the game. They don't need the game, spend an awful
lot of the rest of the ear ali he's wondering,
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man if I could have just played some more. Philip
Rivers got to be the guinea pig. He didn't embarrass
himself and is probably going to be better next week
against the forty nine ers than he was this week
against the Seahawks. Do you think that there's some quarterbacks
retired from the game that might think about coming back
because of what they saw yesterday.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Wow. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some of them
that are sitting there in their comfy chair and it's
crossing their mind more than it did before. It always
crosses your mind when you're done playing, and now typically
typically the game quits you. You don't quit the game
now if you're lucky enough, like Philip Rivers, wasn't most
of these quarterbacks you would think of, you know, like
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Ben Roethlisberger or something that they got to ride off
into the sunset. They chose when they wanted to leave
the game, didn't tell them they had to leave that. Yeah,
you're gonna have those moments of questioning did I leave
too soon?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Boy?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Because yeah, you're gonna miss the CAMARADERI, you're gonna miss
the competition. But I think most of them also they
leave because they don't want to take that beat anymore.
They don't want to have to do all the stuff
you have to do, which is more the older you
get that you got to do more to put yourself
in a position to go out there and stay healthy
and perform at a high level. I don't think there's
gonna be a bunch of guys coming out of the woodwork, saying, yeah,
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you know, that looks like fun because, like I said, well,
he performed admirably his team in the game, he gave
him a chance to win. He didn't perform like what
he did majority of his seventeen year career. Now, part
of that's three days of practice or two days of practice,
just barely getting back into the swing of things. But
I think that I think most of those guys probably
while they maybe went out and played catch in the
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backyard after I was like Sue, so I feel today
they're they're having a hard time, you know, moving that
arm you know there, and they didn't take any hits.
I think most of them are probably going to look
in the mirror, maybe have a conversation with their wife,
and their wife will go, really, honey.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I'll say, if I set the under it a half
like one guy, I'll bet you it's over. I bet
you a one guy saw it, and we'll return and
try to make a comeback. We shall see, all right.
Hora Polonko signed with the New York Mets over the
weekend two years, forty million dollars. Coach Bucket, you all
broken up about that?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
I'm not all broken up. I mean I wanted him back.
He had he had a great year for us. I
think he was one of the main reasons why he
ended up winning the division and going as far as
you did in the playoffs. I wanted to have him back.
That said, there's a price, and some people just are
why it's not your money, Why do you car Because
the organization's only going to spend a certain amount, and
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so no, I would not have wanted him to pay
that amount, especially with his injury history and where he's
getting up in age wise. And so it's a bummer
because I wanted him back, and I know he wanted
to come back, but there's a number there in this organization.
We know they're not going to just go out there
and just overspend and try to win some bidding more.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Unfortunately, we'll have time to talk a lot about that
tomorrow on tomorrow's show. And I do want to let
you know after historic reigns, many people in western Washington
have found themselves flooded out of their homes without food, clothing,
or a place to stay. You can out provide the
essentials for people displaced by the floods by note donating
to the Red Cross right now. You can donate online
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text the word red Cross to nine zero nine nine nine.
Everything good on the home.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Front, A coach b oh yeah, yeah, rivers down for us,
and even with this new system that's coming in right now,
it's not supposed to be as bad. Luckily, the nice
thing is that it'll cool down I think Wednesday up
in the mountain, so then that'll turn into snow, so
it's not going to be as bad. But yeah, there's
still a lot of folks out there that are still
realing from the last one, and all of a sudden,
now we got another one coming down on us.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, Auburn hit really hard yesterday, So be safe out there,
and thoughts prayers with you, not to use a cliche.
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Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hey, good morning, welcome in. It is a Monday. Great
to have you with us. I hope you had a
good weekend. Had some nice weather this weekend, which was
a nice little change up from all the rain that
has been descending upon us. But the rain is back
here this morning. Hopefully we don't have many further messes
that we've had here for the last week or so.
(01:28):
Good to have you with us here on the show.
My name is Chuck Powell. Ashley Ryan is here, so
is former Mariner Bucky jacobsitting here on this Monday. So
much planned for you between now and ten o'clock. You
know how we do it on Mondays. We're pretty thorough now. Yeah,
we get dive into it. We dive deep, yeah, really deep.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And there's a lot to dive into. And I'll say
I think that I'm in a good shape for it.
I gave myself a little bit of an early Christmas present.
I got myself a coffee maker, and I kind of
overdid it in the last twenty four hours. I'm like
my thirty eighth cup. Yeah, so I'm kind of jittery.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Have you slept in the last several days or you
just coffee?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, just straight coffee. I got one of them ivy attachments.
Oh yeah, yeah, well fancy new ones. Yeah fancy hadn't heard.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Of that one.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, queasino.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I just smoked my coffee. I don't inject it.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
That's one way to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Actually, just mainlines it.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yeah, in the form of cherry coke zero right.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yes, uh she just drinks cherry cokes.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
I do drink about two coffees a week now. Oh,
I'm turning into a real adult.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
A real coffee that you're drinking.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
No, probably not.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's probably souped up with a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
It's a brown sugar, shaking oat milk spread.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's not that's not a coffee.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
But I enjoyed those types of It's got a coffee
flavor kinda.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yeah, sometimes that's too much. I'm like, I need more
brown sugar.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Do you an old school one or did you get
one with I just got to drip one. Yeah, I
got to drip one. Yeah. We've had the pod thing,
and then lately I've just been using some just cheap
old thing just to get me through. And I'm like,
you know what I missed, Like the big, big brew
smell of coffee, just like lingering in the air.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
So I just ran out and got myself an early
Christmas present.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Good for you, And then you just decided screw it.
I'll just drink coffee all night last night, this morning,
this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's just a little stronger. I mean, I really have
only had what six cups, but it's just a little stronger,
yeah than what I normally.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
When you say that, the word only needs to be
put in front of it. I mean it's six three am.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Just two this morning, just too this morning, Okay, yeah,
sixth since I bought it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well,
we've got a lot to discuss here today. Seahawks went
over the Colts yesterday eighteen to sixteen in a game
that I certainly did not expect. Jason Myers kicks six
six field goals in the game, and the Hawks proved
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to eleven and three on the season, which is really
all that matters as they get ready for the biggest
game of the year here in just a few days.
I mean, I think there are just three monster takeaways
from this game, and we'll try to hit all of
those three monster takeaways here in our first segment this morning.
And it starts first and foremost with the biggest story
this weekend in the National Football League, and that is
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the return to Philip Rivers. And obviously I went all
in on how on earth can he succeed being gone
for five years? Well, you saw it. He was on time,
he was There was one incident where he kind of
looked like he slipped on the ice. Yeah, you know.
Other than that, he didn't get overly harassed. He got
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rid of the football. He showed us how you can
sit on a sideline for five years and then come
out and be a functional quarterback in the National Football League.
I didn't see it coming. I made that very clear
all last week. But certainly he proved me wrong. And
as coach said, maybe he's the only one that could have.
(05:04):
I don't know, but all the credit in the world
to him. He almost guided the Indianapolis Colts to a
road win over arguably the best defense in the National
Football League. I didn't give him a chance. I was
dead wrong. Good for you, Philip Rivers, And as I
said last week, I'm happy that he was. I mean,
we came away with a win. We got the win,
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but it was a lot more interesting of a game
because Philip Rivers was functional, and the week in the
National Football the NFL is a lot more interesting now
that he's back, and it was already a ten out
of ten and interesting. So I give him all the
credit in the world. He held his own yesterday, and
I didn't think that he would.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, I mean he held his own. I mean, he
didn't do anything spectacular.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
He was.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I mean, he wasn't trying to push the ball down
the field. There was one of the early passes that
was outside that was kind of fluttering and you're like, ooh,
that shot put delivery that he's always had looked at
a little even more uglier than it did better in
a day, but it still was. He was effective, He
was on time. They had a game plan that was
like I guess you know, he had said before the game,
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I'm not expect I can't throw the wall sixty yards anymore. Well,
I don't even know if sure if you throw forty yards,
probably can on the video. Yeah, yeah, but he's not
going to He's not gonna be as accurate. Whereas the
little dump offs the game plan that we figured they
would try to implement, Yes that he did that, and
he did it very well. He was a game manager.
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I mean there was, you know, coming down the end
when they end up kicking the field goal to take
the lead before giving the lead back with fifty seconds
or whatever was left that when they ran it and
gave him a sixty some yard field goal, that was
one where I think the five years ago or majority
of his seventeen year career. You're trying to ice the
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game there. Yeah you're behind, you need a field goal,
but you're trying to get a first down and end
this with the field goal. You're kicking it with three
seconds left, and instead they ran it just get a
little bit closer. That was a situation where I think
they maybe I'll bet their second guess in it right
now because of the way that it ended up. But
I think that that.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Was because the way Mike McDonald used his timeouts.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, it was very good.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Five years ago you'd be like, what are you doing?
But in today's game, being able to preserve some clock
because odds are you're going to get the ball at
minimum the thirty yard line and you have a kicker
that can kick from sixty five, I think, yeah, then
you preserve the clock just in case you need it.
Needed a heck of a job.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Great job by him and his crew they come up
with those and to convince him to go ahead and
do that, sell those you know, spend those timeouts there,
because yeah, you gave yourself a chance.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
It was.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
It was an interesting game. It was one where I
mean Philip Rivers didn't go out there and light it up.
But he managed the game like a veteran. Like I
thought maybe a veteran could do. It was going to
be uphill sledding against that defense. But the Indianabas Colts,
there's a they're scuffling now. Is a four in a
row and five out of six that they've lost. But
that's a good team. I mean, that's a team. They
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have a lot of talent on the defensive side. Their
offensive line, didn't They protected Philip Rivers enough to keep
the Seahawks off of them for the most part, so
that he could dank and dunk and find those guys.
And then he made a couple of really good throws.
The back shoulder throw that led them down to take
the lead late. That was a big throw and a
great catch. I mean, it was impressive considering how where
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he's been. I mean he was on the couch, you know,
basically watching it with his grandkid last week and then
now all of a sudden he's in there. To me,
the biggest age thing was him getting up off the
ground and I feel you on that, Philip Rivers. That's
where he looked the oldest is when he would have
to try to get up it's just not as easy
as it used to do.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I've just seen so many young I practice every week
quarterbacks just get overwhelmed by this sport. And I mean
I mentioned this several times last week. Matthew Stafford looked
confused when he faced the Mike McDonald defense not long ago,
and he might be the best player in the world
right now, and so, I mean, I just felt I mean,
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Hughes said something very interesting on Friday which stuck with
me all week and long. I hope he's It was
sort of a suggestion. I hope he's not successful. I
don't want him to look good playing quarterback because that
might suggest that it's not nearly as difficult as.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It truly is, as it was for me my whole career.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Or for anybody. And I don't think that he necessarily
made the quarterback position look easy. I didn't come away
with that thinking, oh, man, Hugh Millen, why does he
think that this is such a difficult thing to do?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yeah, I mean, if anyone could go in and do that, a.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Forty four year old can get off the couch after
five years and complete a few passes, then why these
quarterbacks make it look harder? Than it is. I mean,
I didn't come away with that, but I will say this,
he sort of gave you a textbook like those that
really struggle at it. Maybe you're making it too difficult
because he was functional, Yes, five years removed, and you're right,
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he didn't test the boundaries. They are the limits of
quarterback play. It wasn't anything pretty. But for somebody that
practiced twice this week, hasn't taken a hit in five years,
has been throwing when he does throw to high schoolers,
you know, for the last five years, for him to
come in there and be functional, I think it's a
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damn sports miracle. And yet I didn't think that he
was going to pull that off, and he did. Yeah,
absolutely did.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
I think functional is the right word to describe it.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
He went out there and he did the job with
the game plan that they had considering their starting quarterback
was out, and he executed it well. There was definitely
certain things you're looking at that you realize, well, this
isn't working because you've had two or three practices. You know,
you're missing receiver and floating balls over their head, things
like that that it's just the timing. They don't have
that and you wouldn't expect them to have that. And
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I think I definitely thought going into that he was
just going to get lit up, and you know, and
and the injury concern, I kept saying, put flags on him.
I'm worried he's gonna get hurt. And he didn't, and
he is. He held his own and he did a
good job.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And I was expecting that slip on the ice kind
of play. I was expecting like seven of those.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah too.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I was expecting at least a couple interceptions and he
really didn't throw any. The only one and that he
threw was at the end of the game, and yeah,
you can't even count that, yeah, in desperation moment. So
I give him, I give him a lot of credit
the other person. And I think this is the second
thing that has to be mentioned. And if you only
have one segment to talk about yesterday's game, this is
the second thing that has to be mentioned. Jason Myers
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has been unbelievable this year. I mean there's one there
are two guarantees of Pro Bowl from the Seahawks roster,
and they are JSN and Jason Myers. I mean that's
I got guarantee at this point. That guy has been
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sensational this year. And I can't tell you how many
times that I've felt this season that we should be
talking more about Jason Myers because he's turned automatic on
us here this season. And obviously Mike McDonald has gone
for it on fourth down fewer than any head coach
in the National Football League, So obviously he feels like
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Jason Myers is a guaranteed three points right now, and
he is even with the game on the line, even
the remember how he would succeed on the long field
goals and struggle with the extra points there for a
year and a half or so. I mean, he's just guaranteed,
no matter where you are on the field, even with
fifty you know, with four seconds remaining from fifty six yards,
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just as true as can be. So we certainly have
to talk about Jason Myers and the excellence that he's
brought to the kicking game this year.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yeah, I don't know for sure. I mean, typically if
you rely on your kicker to make six field goals,
you're probably not going to win a bunch of games,
right you want to finish some of those drives. But
considering that, the recipe that you were going up against,
which is somebody that practiced, you know, a couple of days,
hadn't been doing anything but coaching high school football for
the last five years. They weren't. So you weren't going
(13:28):
against you know, the Patrick Mahomes led you know Chiefs
that we've watched over the majority of the last decade.
You were going against the team that you knew maybe
twenty points might be all that it takes, and obviously
eighteen was all that it took, and so you could
settle for those those field goals. Now you're not going
to want to do that. That was not the convincing
(13:50):
win that you've been watching for the better part of
the last couple months when they've gone out there and
you basically coming here on Mondey, we're talking about this
is Super Bowl continuing, maybe Super Bowl favorites, and it's
best in the NFC, and even after a loss against
a division foe like the Rams. So I think that
there's obviously room for improvement. But that's the one area
(14:11):
that you don't have to worry about for sure, and
that's a big one. It's a big one come playoff time.
You want to have a solid kicker that you feel
you can run out there. That last kick that he
made probably would have been good from sixty five, and
it definitely would have been good from sixty.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Well, and you think about the pressure on that last
one too, So just all of it, I mean, any
you know, obviously, especially when your offense isn't getting in
the end zone, any kick, you're going to be dealing
with pressure on it. But for that one, in that moment,
we were at the game, and I know it wasn't silent,
but it felt like everything just kind of stood still
as you're waiting for him to kick that through there,
and it was in the We're on that north end
(14:44):
zone and it was kicking it towards us, and I
just remember like it felt like slow motion watching it
go through the goalposts and think like, oh my gosh.
And but he the rest of the kicks the rest
of the day, I didn't feel like there was any
pressure watching him.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
I was like, Oh, he's going to do this.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, I hope I get to Heaven. My guess is
that when I get there, there won't be any kickers.
Probably not. Yeah, that's that's my fields.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
No punters.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And yet Jason, I'll let you in the Pearly game.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, because you've just been that special third thing that
has to be mentioned this morning, and that is, you know,
you got to be a little bit concerned about this
offense here in the second half of the season. It
hasn't been nearly as potent and for this team to
have to settle for six field goals against I mean,
the Indianapolis colt is a pretty good team, but you're
(15:36):
not going against the Houston Texans. That's not the Houston
Texans defense out there. Uh, And so there's got to
be some concern. There were there were some moments of
a little too conservative I felt that play calling from
Clint Kubiak, and when you have to huddle your entire
offense on the sideline at one point to you have
(15:59):
an all offense meeting in the middle of the game.
Obviously Clint Kubiak's not too happy with where they're at
right now. Either. You're getting ready for this key stretch.
You're getting ready for your biggest three games of the year,
and the biggest one's gonna happen in three days, and
you better be better offensively than what you have been
for the last month.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well, the fact that they I mean, I guess it's
working so far. I mean, you find yourself at what
eleven and three, and you have your destiny in your
own hands coming up this Thursday. And yet, yeah, the
inconsistency of it, where against bad teams they now have
what four different halves that they've scored thirty points or
(16:41):
more and a half. I mean that is like wow,
bank bank bank. They can be explosive, and yet then
there's times that they don't do anything. And yet they
stick to run in the ball. And we heard Pete
Carroll for years, we got to run the ball more.
We're going to run the ball more. Well, the Clint
Kubiak does that. They run the ball more than anybody,
and yet they're not super efficient. Yesterday was one of
(17:01):
the worst. Yeah, and perform you are not going to
You're not going to win a bunch of games against
playoff caliber teams if you're averaging two yards of carry
and still just deciding Nope, we're gonna still run it
about a fifty to fifty split here, maybe even a
little bit more. You're gonna there's and I don't know
for sure if that affects Darnald at times like almost
(17:22):
like let him get into a rhythm a little bit
when he's passing instead of noe. We got to get
back to the run again, you know. We got to
keep him honest with the run game. So there's concerns
for sure. I'm sure that that Clint Kubiak, while he
went to bed happy with a W, was not happy
with how the offense looks right now.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Yeah, especially in that first half. Just I mean they looked.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Especially the first half three weeks in a row.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Yes, exactly what I was as we were watching it.
I'm thinking like, oh my gosh, this is just like
last week. But then I would tell myself, well, maybe
they're going to come out and have a great third quarter,
but you got to have more than one good quarter
of football.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Do you do when you have to face the top
competition And look, you beat a Phillip Rivers led Colts
team at home on the strength of six for six
from your kicker, but you're facing the Rams, the Panthers
who are buying for a title in Carolina and then
San Francisco. You gotta play your best. If you're gonna
(18:17):
pull this off, you got to play your best, and
we have not seen them play their best since what Commanders.
I mean, they blew away the Cardinals forty four to
twenty two, but I think it's been since that command Well,
they were good against the Rams, but they lost. I
think that they haven't played a complete game since the
(18:38):
Washington Commanders. And that's saying something because they've won what
six of their last seven games. But we'll have time
today to talk about all of it. So let's find
out what is on tap for today's show.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
What's on TEP?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
What's untep?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Seahawks eighteen Colts sixteen Monday Morning quarterback Today. Hugh Millen
will join us at eight o'clock. Mike Homern will join
us at nine o'clock. So two hours of just full
throttle analysis from two of the best in the business.
As we look forward to that. Also, Greg Bell will
be with us today at seven o five to give
us the latest and greatest in covering the Hawks. He's
(19:14):
fresh back from the Army Navy game and having covered
the Hawks game yesterday. The National Football League, the biggest
stories yesterday revolved around injuries. Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas
City Chiefs were eliminated from the playoffs yesterday, and to
add injury to insult Patrick Mahomes with less than two
(19:35):
minutes to go in the game, ended up tearing his ACL.
Was helped off of the field and he is out
for the rest of the season and part of next season.
Micah Parsons also torn ACL was removed from the Packers game,
so he's lost for the rest of the year for
the Green Bay Packers. And DeVante Adams for the Rams
(19:55):
went down late as well in their game against the
Detroit Lions. It's a hamstring issue, not nearly as serious
as the other two, but obviously when you're facing the
Rams this week, it'll be very interesting to see if
the Rams can get him ready to play by Thursday night.
We will start the countdown to that game tonight. There's
no reason to wait around. We'll start it today. I
(20:18):
should say Rams at Seahawks this Thursday. To this point,
the game of the year, the week in the National
Football League will wrap up tonight. It'll be the Dolphins
at the Pittsburgh Steelers. A Monday night football frostbrewed corselight,
choose chill Monday. Counting you down to this game. At
five point fifteen, you double one the LA Bulls thirty
eight to ten over Boise State Saturday night, and of
(20:40):
course Jedfish is facing all of those Michigan rumors. The
Wolverines have still yet to name their head coach. They're
panicked in Arizona State. I know that over Kenny Dillingham
possibly taking the job. Jedfish, his name is still out there,
and Kaylin de Boor has gone out of his way
to deny his interest in the but.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Who knows, which means he'll probably take it to me.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, yeah, probably Fernando Mendoz who won the Heisman Saturday.
Navy did edge Army in a terrific game Saturday in Baltimore.
The college Football Playoff starts Friday with Alabama at Oklahomajre
Polonko signed with the Mets over the weekend. Does that
mean he's not coming back to us? Is that what
that means?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I think that doesn't mean that.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Oh shoot, we'll talk about that later on in the show.
The Kraken have lost eight of nine games. Now they'll
take on the Avalanche tomorrow. It feels like they're already
in a must win kind of situation. And you dub
one over Southern Utah Saturday and college hoops they won't
play again until Seattle. You this Friday. I don't know
what happened. Why are we playing this one game a week?
(21:43):
What happened with the schedule on that. I'm not really
sure how that happened. So a lot to discuss today.
But when we come back cold Turkey Sandwich a board
of scores, our look around the National Football League on
KJR saw first and.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Goal from the four McCarthy of a shotgun, three receivers
to the right, single man out to the left. McCarthy
brings Hawkins in a short motion for the right, takes
the snap back to pass Piers right side wide open.
Naylor call it for the touchdown, second.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Of the night per Jalen Naylor, and with.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Nine to twelve to go in the game, the Vikings
have a thirty to twenty three.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Lead, the extra point coming up.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Naylor with two touchdowns all year coming in two tonight
here in Dallas, west Wood one.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
On the call right here at kJ ARN last night
as thirty four to twenty six, Minnesota Vikings wrapped up
the Sunday in the National Football League with a win
over the Dallas Cowboys in Dallas. JJ McCarthy maybe his
finest game from beginning to end that he's played as
a pro. Meanwhile, Dallas falls to six seven and one,
so they are just one eagle win or their loss
(22:52):
from being eliminated from the NFC East title. They kept
settling for field goal attempts. Brandon Aubrey kicked goal attempts
in the game, only made four of them, and the
Vikings win by eight. But there were more interesting games played.
It's time for a cold turkey sandwich. That's right, a
board of scores for you here on this Monday morning
(23:13):
on Chuck and Buck, and we'll start within the NFC West,
where the Los Angeles Rams win a shootout over Detroit
forty one to thirty four. They along with the Seahawks,
improved to eleven and three on the season in time
for their matchup this Thursday right here in Seattle. They
outscored Detroit twenty seven to ten to close out the game.
(23:35):
Both quarterbacks looked terrific. Stafford at three hundred and sixty
eight passing yards to Goff's three thirty eight in that
matchup of quarterbacks once upon a time traded for one
another very entertaining game, but the Rams found another way
to win.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah, and that's what they seem to be doing this
entire season, right, even when they're going against somebody tough
and maybe find themselves behind at halftime, they make the
adjustments and come out. The Lions, for whatever reason, just
don't seem to be clicking on all Slanders wasn't a
bad game to put up thirty four against that defense
is commendable, and yet there's a reason why they're eight
and six. They just have a hard time finding ways
(24:10):
to win against some of the better teams out there.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
The Rams will close out with at Seattle, at Atlanta
and home against Arizona, so not exactly the most difficult schedule.
So the Seahawks better win Thursday if they want a
shot if they're going to win this NFC West San
Francisco is hanging right there thirty seven to twenty four.
They won over the Titans yesterday Purty three touchdown passes says.
(24:34):
The Niners improved to ten and four on the air.
Just a game back and they will be at Indianapolis,
so they get to face Philip Rivers next week, home
against the Bears and home against the Seahawks. Much more
difficult schedule for them.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yeah, I mean, I think the toughest is probably the
Seahawks schedule with the Niners next and the Rams with
the third most difficult out of those teams vying for
the NFC West, and yet there's just so much riding
on this game. I mean, you're not talking just division,
You're talking number one overall seed possibly, so big game,
big game coming up here on short notice.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You're not even completely out of the woods and just
making the playoffs, right, That's how top heavy that the
league has been this year, with the haves and the
have nots, so a lot of work to do now.
The biggest stories of the week happened to be on
the injury front, and by the way, Devonte Adams did
leave the Rams game with a hamstring, so we'll see
if he'll be ready by Thursday. But more serious injuries
(25:29):
occurred to two of the biggest names in the National
Football League, including the biggest. Patrick Mahomes. Season came to
an end he tore his ACL less than two minutes
to go in regulation play. Kansasity Chiefs were eliminated from
playoff contention, and Mahomes obviously out for the season and
likely to miss some of next season. With a torn
(25:51):
acl sixteen to thirteen, the final score the Chargers over
the Kansas City Chiefs. One of the most interesting stats
you will here in your entire life is that Tom
Brady never took a meaningless snap his entire career. In
other words, Tom Brady was every snap he took was
(26:11):
he had not been eliminated from the playoffs his entire career.
Patrick Mahomes same thing. Yep, every snap that he's taken
in and that will be preserved, right because he's not
going to take another snap for the rest of the season.
That will be preserved. But that's how great this guy
has been. I think he's going to bounce back just fine.
This Yeah, maybe this run with Andy Reid and the
(26:35):
Chiefs is over with Travis Kelcey, but Patrick Mahomes has
still got ten years good years left in the National
Football League, and I think they will resurrect just fine. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Well, I mean, he's good enough that he didn't have
to have the same supporting cast. He kind of is
the team. And I'm with you. I mean, nowadays, the
idea of an Aco, you boy, how are you going
to come back from it? There's people that are running
backs that come back from he used to be blow
your acl out his running back. You're done. You just
aren't gonna come back the same. It's not the case anymore.
It is gonna be interesting because he's a missed miss
(27:07):
apportion of next season, and so what they do in
the interim isn't gonna be interesting. But I'm with you,
Tom Brady. I think blew his knee out in his
ninth season. Yeah, and he came back and ended up
winning what four Super Bowls that after the fact, So
I don't know if he's necessarily going to do that.
But I don't think the Patrick Mahomes era is over
by any stress.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I don't even I think he's gonna have another I
think I think he's got another second half ahead of them.
But certainly they got to retool some things in Kansas City.
There's no doubt that this team's not good enough right
now to win the championship in the NFL, and it's
that's fine. The Denver Broncos moved a step closer to
taking over the rings in the AFC West. They defeated
(27:50):
the Green Bay Packers thirty four to twenty six. Bo
Knicks four touchdown passes, he keeps getting better. I mean,
he looks really good. Meanwhile, green Bay Micah Parson. He's
out for the season as well with a torn acl
So green Bay with that big blockbuster trade, we'll have
to get things done without Micah Parsons. They fall a
half game out of first place to Chicago.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah, that's crazy how they went to how quickly it
swings right now, the ebbs and flows of the NFC
and the standings, because like you said earlier, how top
heavy it is.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Chicago won yesterday thirty one to three over the Cleveland Browns.
So the Bears are in first place at ten and four.
I'm going to make a prediction they don't make the
playoffs because their schedule the rest of the way is
home against the Packers at San Francisco and home against Detroit.
I think it comes down to the Bears or Detroit
and that last game of the year for the final
(28:44):
playoff spot, believe it or not. And so Chicago's got
a lot of work left to do, but it's been
a successful ride thus far with a ten and four record.
Cleveland fell to three and one. Miles Scarett has twenty
one and a half sacks, so he's one shy of
the NFL for most sacks in a season, and he
will have three weeks to get that done. Something tells
(29:05):
me he's gonna get it by plenty. The Buffalo Bills
and the New England Patriots played a wild game yesterday.
New England was up twenty one to nothing and at
halftime twenty four to seven, but after throwing up on
the sidelines, Josh Allen then threw up three touchdown passes
and Buffalo rallied to win thirty five to thirty one.
(29:25):
To remind the Patriots, we're still the big dog. It's
gonna be a little harder to knock us off the
top of the mountain.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Yeah. Well, I mean, if Drake May thought that a
half of football is enough to end up beating you know,
Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bill's good luck. I mean,
that's a team that's dangerous. Of all the really weird
turnover in the AFC right now, with Patrick Mahomes going
to be on the outside looking in, that still is
that one, dude, That's that's kind of gonna be lurking
(29:51):
there in the playoffs. Probably that you never can give up.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
On time to give the Jacksonville Jaguars credit. They are smoking.
How they are to be taken seriously. They are playing
like a championship team. Championship teams just destroyed the teams
they're supposed to. Now just beat them. They're destroying the
teams they're supposed to and they're rising up against the
big challenges as well. They won five straight games and
(30:14):
Trevor Lawrence has never played better. Five touchdown passes, forty
eight to twenty winners over the New York Jets yesterday.
Jaguars are ten and four on the season and in
first place. But Houston's just as hot. The Texans have
won sixth straight. They took care of business, doubling up
the Cardinals yesterday forty to twenty the final score there
So Jacksonville ten and four, Houston nine to five, Colts
(30:37):
eight and six. That's the pecking order right now. In
the AFC South. The Carolina Panthers. What a terrible loss.
They had a chance to win and move into first
place in their division, and instead they go on the
road and lose to a three win team in New Orleans.
And to make matters worse, they had a roughing the
passer penalty that set up the game winning field goal,
(30:57):
Otherwise they would have at least had overtime to try
to defeat New Orleans. Now Carolina gets ready to face
Tampa Bay this Sunday with first place on the line
in that division. Washington twenty nine twenty one winners over
the New York Giants. The Giants right now have the
number one pick in the National Football League. The Raiders
(31:17):
have the number two pick as they were skunked by
the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday thirty one to nothing. Glad that
game was on our national television broadcast. That was really fun.
And Baltimore, speaking of shutouts, shut out the Cincinnati Bengals
twenty four to nothing. Joe Burrow and the Bengals officially
eliminated from playoff contention. Baltimore moves to seven and seven,
(31:38):
and we'll watch with keen interest tonight to see if
the Miami Dolphins can keep their winning ways going in
Pittsburgh against the Steelers. They lost by the Steelers, and
Baltimore jumps them into first place. So there you go.
There's your cold turkey sandwich, A board of scores for
you here on Monday, Coach Bucky joins US next Sports
Radio ninety three point three KJRFL you Milline at eight
(32:01):
until ten o'clock today, Coach Holngrin from nine until ten
o'clock today. Eighteen sixteen Seahawks win over the Indianapolis Colts
despite the inspirational performance by Philip Rivers yesterday coming off
his couch at age forty four, getting two days of
practice and performing functionally if nothing else, against the Seahawks
(32:23):
on Sunday right here in Seattle, and had a chance
to win the game. So I asked coach Bucky, who
joins us here, do you think he will be a
form of inspiration? A lot of former quarterbacks that don't
think are athletes in general, who don't think they'll miss
the game. They don't need the game, spend an awful
lot of the rest of the ear ali he's wondering,
(32:44):
man if I could have just played some more. Philip
Rivers got to be the guinea pig. He didn't embarrass
himself and is probably going to be better next week
against the forty nine ers than he was this week
against the Seahawks. Do you think that there's some quarterbacks
retired from the game that might think about coming back
because of what they saw yesterday.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Wow. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some of them
that are sitting there in their comfy chair and it's
crossing their mind more than it did before. It always
crosses your mind when you're done playing, and now typically
typically the game quits you. You don't quit the game
now if you're lucky enough, like Philip Rivers, wasn't most
of these quarterbacks you would think of, you know, like
(33:21):
Ben Roethlisberger or something that they got to ride off
into the sunset. They chose when they wanted to leave
the game, didn't tell them they had to leave that. Yeah,
you're gonna have those moments of questioning did I leave
too soon?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Boy?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Because yeah, you're gonna miss the CAMARADERI, you're gonna miss
the competition. But I think most of them also they
leave because they don't want to take that beat anymore.
They don't want to have to do all the stuff
you have to do, which is more the older you
get that you got to do more to put yourself
in a position to go out there and stay healthy
and perform at a high level. I don't think there's
gonna be a bunch of guys coming out of the woodwork, saying, yeah,
(33:55):
you know, that looks like fun because, like I said, well,
he performed admirably his team in the game, he gave
him a chance to win. He didn't perform like what
he did majority of his seventeen year career. Now, part
of that's three days of practice or two days of practice,
just barely getting back into the swing of things. But
I think that I think most of those guys probably
while they maybe went out and played catch in the
(34:16):
backyard after I was like Sue, so I feel today
they're they're having a hard time, you know, moving that
arm you know there, and they didn't take any hits.
I think most of them are probably going to look
in the mirror, maybe have a conversation with their wife,
and their wife will go, really, honey.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
I'll say, if I set the under it a half
like one guy, I'll bet you it's over. I bet
you a one guy saw it, and we'll return and
try to make a comeback. We shall see, all right.
Hora Polonko signed with the New York Mets over the
weekend two years, forty million dollars. Coach Bucket, you all
broken up about that?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
I'm not all broken up. I mean I wanted him back.
He had he had a great year for us. I
think he was one of the main reasons why he
ended up winning the division and going as far as
you did in the playoffs. I wanted to have him back.
That said, there's a price, and some people just are
why it's not your money, Why do you car Because
the organization's only going to spend a certain amount, and
(35:12):
so no, I would not have wanted him to pay
that amount, especially with his injury history and where he's
getting up in age wise. And so it's a bummer
because I wanted him back, and I know he wanted
to come back, but there's a number there in this organization.
We know they're not going to just go out there
and just overspend and try to win some bidding more.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Unfortunately, we'll have time to talk a lot about that
tomorrow on tomorrow's show. And I do want to let
you know after historic reigns, many people in western Washington
have found themselves flooded out of their homes without food, clothing,
or a place to stay. You can out provide the
essentials for people displaced by the floods by note donating
to the Red Cross right now. You can donate online
(35:50):
through the Red Cross North East West Region website or
text the word red Cross to nine zero nine nine nine.
Everything good on the home.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Front, A coach b oh yeah, yeah, rivers down for us,
and even with this new system that's coming in right now,
it's not supposed to be as bad. Luckily, the nice
thing is that it'll cool down I think Wednesday up
in the mountain, so then that'll turn into snow, so
it's not going to be as bad. But yeah, there's
still a lot of folks out there that are still
realing from the last one, and all of a sudden,
now we got another one coming down on us.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, Auburn hit really hard yesterday, So be safe out there,
and thoughts prayers with you, not to use a cliche.
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