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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The rest of the fortune.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
These guys want to be These guys are lawyers and
like real they want to be on.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
TV too, Brother, like the game. You don't think he's
texting his friends in.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The group chat like, Yo, you guys just saw me
Sunday football like that way.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
That wasn't p I like, but I called it was
seriously you do that that?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I mean?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
These guys are noble human beings too, bro. Like you
hear somebody else say that sounds silly.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
It's Chuck bucking Ashley with you here game day on
a Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
That's right. We're getting you set.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
For Seahawks Rams tonight right here in Seattle. Is it
gonna be windy? Is it gonna be rainy? Is it
gonna be neither? Is it gonna be both? We're gonna
talk a little bit. We're gonna talk to a weatherman,
that's right, ye know, grandall, hey turn on the weatherman.
So Grandpa, you tell me, northy turn on the weather man.
That's funny, yeah, uh. And so we'll be turning on
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the weather man a little bit later on this hour
to find out exactly what we can expect and how
it could impact the game a little bit later on
this hour. Also our twelve man Roundtable Today Game Day
Roundtable with Hugh Millen and Greg Bell, starting at eight o'clock.
What a special special evening. We've got a plan for
Seahawks versus Rams. Good morning. Let's first though, talk about
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your frost brewed Corslight choose chill headlines. Of course, it
does start with that game five point fifteen kickoff, and.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It will be aired locally.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It won't just be the Prime video broadcast. They will
air it locally, so you don't have to worry about that.
Charles Cross is out for the Seahawks, our starting left tackle,
and Mike McDonald didn't beat around the bush Josh Jones.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
They feel okay with Josh Jones.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
He's been on the roster all season long, hasn't played
that much, but this is why he's here to be
that guy that will step in for either Abe Lucas
or Charles Cross or Josh Jones will get the start
tonight at left tackle in the biggest game of the year.
Davante Adams is being listed as doubtful. Most people reading
into it believe there's really no shot that the Rams.
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The wide receiver and possible future Hall of Famer is
going to play tonight, but that Sean mcvayh wanted to
keep hope alive, either lying to himself or forcing Mike
McDonald to have to strategize for something that's not even
going to participate. But it's looking very doubtful that DeVante
Adams will play for the Rams. Will bring a professional
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on to talk about this later this hour. But there
is a chance there won't be much rain tonight, it's
looking like, and yet there could be high winds tonight.
So again we'll get into that at seven point thirty
with somebody that does.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
This for a lidding, thank goodness, because yeah, we don't.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
This is the week where NFL Saturday games start, so
you're gonna have college football playoff games, three of them
with two NFL games on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
That's some prime watching right there. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Philadelphia at Washington, Green Bay at Chicago.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That second game is a monster.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Which we'll discuss here in a little bit as we
look at the playoff picture for the Seahawks in the NFC.
But those are the two games on Saturday, and then
of course a full slate on Sunday as well.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
You doub losing talent.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yesterday, entering the transfer portal was running back Adam Muhammad
and wide receiver Raident vines Bright also offensive lineman Zach Henning.
Had a few Husky fans wondering what the heck is
going on? Is Fish really leaving? The Michigan rumors will
not die, And when you lose three prominent young players
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like that in a short period of time, it certainly
gets the mind to whirlindrases eyebrows. I don't know. I
don't know what to tell you. I don't have any
inside information. I would say that there's enough smoke there
that I wouldn't rule it out. That's true that Jetfish
is leaving, and that these moves yesterday had something to
do with that. Maybe he's leaked a little information, But
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there's also a really good store to tell in regards
to I think every program's gonna lose players every single year.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's just where we are.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Number two, The Huskies have already finished their bowl game.
Where most bowl games have not been played, They've already
cleaned out their lockers, So it shouldn't be surprising to
people that a few players have moved on earlier than
other programs. Have had to confront and then look, I mean,
Adam Mohammad might.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Be replaced by Jordan Wash.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
He's been waiting to be the RB one through the
entire Jonah Coleman era, and now he might not get
the chance because of how good and how fast and
how talented Jordan Washington is. So maybe he sees the
riding on the wall and wants to get to a
place where he's guaranteed more carries.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And then with Rayden Vines Bright, I mean, he had
a really scary injury, really scary.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
To the point where you know, it's one of those
type of injuries where he goes to the hospital and
mom and dad spend all night worrying about you. He's
from Tempe, Arizona. This could be a case of I'm
saying you are coming home. I am not going to
go through I mean, who knows. There gonna be a
million different reasons why these things happened yesterday. But obviously
when your head coach at your local football program as
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a nomad, our minds naturally go to, oh my.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Gosh, you might be leaving after all?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Right, right, I think just about everybody probably had their
mind jumped to that conclusion. And yet I mean, I'll
just say, at the end of every season in college,
you would end up having a conversation with your coach, right,
And I know I had a few buddies that would
go in and talk to ed chef and what do
I need to work on, coach, And you go, you
got a lot to work on. The first thing is
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I'd find somewhere else to play because you're not going
to play here.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That happened to you every year, not to me.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Oh okay, but I have some buddies that that happened
to He just told me you got to work on
pretty much everything.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, mainly your attitude and your fashion.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That well, my fashion was garbage, but that was part
for the course. This was the nineteen nineties, remember, and
so no, it was an attitude was fine. It was
just his way of being like, your hitting still garbage.
Defense sucks really bad. Your mentality is the worst I've
ever let anyone wear a warrior uniform. So take that
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into account as you go into the off season. I
would just basically work on everything because you're horrible.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And get some breath mints. Yea, he probably maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You did as I was leaving and I just was.
I couldn't hear it through my tears.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I don't know, but I do.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I mean, the idea of a post season, a postseason
conversation with your coach happens. It could be that simple now,
and you add the murkiness of money. If they're like, hey,
we're right now, we don't have to pay Jordan as
much and you know we need that money that we.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Have set aside for you to go here. Who knows?
Man to me, it's just one of those we can speculate.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's it's a topic for us to discuss on sports
talk radio, but we don't know what the the situation is.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Could be a thousand different reasons for it.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
But one of those reasons is Jedfish is leading great YEP,
could be one of my So I think we're I
think we're kind of prepared for anything. That's so what
you have to be as a college football.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Fan right now. I think so.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
And if you're not, then you're you're you got your
head in the sand and you're pretending things haven't changed,
and they have changed. They have changed a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
They have changed dramatically.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
College football playoff will start on Friday, Alabama at Oklahoma
will be the matchup, and then three games on Saturday.
Kurt Signetti named National Coach of the Year for a
second consecutive season there at Indiana and the Kraken will
be in action tonight in Calgary to take on the Flames.
They have lost nine of their last ten games. They've
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got to get it right and right now. Lane Lambert
in the program struggling, no question about that. Those are
your frost brewed cors like choose Chill headlines again twelve
man round table today at eight. Mike Sander will join
us DELP preview the game tonight at and yes, there
there is a playoff picture to consider here. So let
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me paint this for you, let me bob ross it
for you here. Maybe we'll put a little bush down here.
Sometimes mistakes can turn into something wonderfully on a canvas.
But yeah, bush exactly. But game day tonight, and yes,
the Seahawks can clinch a playoff spot tonight where they win.
It's just as simple as that. A win and they
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are in the postseason. But they're certainly more at stake
than that. You got your eye fixed on finishing first
place in the NFC West, which almost certainly is going
to lead to you finishing with the number one seed
in the entire NFC playoffs, and there's a lot of
good that comes from that. That's home field advantage throughout
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your NFC playoffs. That's also a bye. Now we have
seven teams in the playoffs, only one team gets a bye.
It's the team with that one seed. So there is
certainly a lot to get from this victory tonight. It
doesn't guarantee you anything. You still have to play Carolina.
You still have to play San Francisco. San Francisco, believe
it or not, controls its own destiny as well. All
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three of these teams do, Rams, Seahawks, forty nine Ers.
All three of them control their own destiny. If they
went out, they're gonna be the number one seed. Because
the Seahawks have to turn around in a couple of
weeks and take on the forty nine ers and not
ignore Carolina, and they're push they're a better team with
a lot at stake next week. So there is a
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lot still left to do. But there's no doubt that
a win tonight at home against the Rams, thanks to
that Rams loss a couple of weeks ago, that was
so unexpected. We are in a position to take stranglehold
of the NFC West and that number one seed with
a victory tonight. That's why this thing is so damn huge.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's huge. I mean it feels like, I mean, they're
gonna make the playoffs. The Seahawks are gonna make the playoffs.
So they would have to be like a month, they'd
have to lose all of them and somebody else come up.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Detroit has them all. That's very simple.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
If they lost them all and Detroit won them all,
then Detroit and there's still a chance the Seahawks get
in by percentage points because we did not face Detroita.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You're right right.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It basically is a greater than ninety nine percent chance
that they're gonna make the playoffs. But how you make
the playoffs is a different story. And to me, when
I look at Okay, what you have going forward, and
you can't look past tonight's game, obviously that's the first thing,
but it's if you don't win this game, the idea
of you getting that number one spot, winning the division,
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when when the Rams get to play Atlanta and Arizona,
it seems futile. It seems like you. Basically that is gone.
The division is gone, the number one seed is gone.
So then you're going on the road and playing somebody
and making it a little bit tougher path. Not that
they can't play on the road, but it's just tougher.
You'd much rather have a buy. So, yeah, it's a
It's a big one, There's no doubt about it. I mean,
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then you move on to the next game, and you
got to try to take care of business against Carolina,
who at this point still has something to play for.
They're in a big division game this weekend against the Buccaneers.
So and then you get the Niners at the end
of it, who are just trying to kind of wait
in the grass and sneak up and bite somebody.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
I think the great thing is though, that it is
all in your own control, right, You control your destiny.
You're not saying, Okay, well we've got to win out
and we need these other things to happen for us
to be in the position we want to be in.
All you have to do, not that it's easy, but
you just have to win your games. So focus on you.
You don't have to worry about what other people are doing.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
They do of the three of the toughest remaining schedule. Yes,
I mean the Rams lost at Carolina just a couple
of weeks ago, so they can get you, and then
they still have to play San Francisco. But yes, that's
the exact position after fourteen games that you want to
be in, right, be able to control your own destiny.
Have a home game against the team that has already
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beaten you once here tonight, and to take them out.
And look, I mean as much val you goes with
this win and finishing out winning the division and most
likely taking the well, you would end up with the
one seed if you want out, you even control that.
I don't think that the road I mean is as
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daunting as it normally is.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I mean, if you don't end up with the one.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Seed, I think there's still a very good chance that
you could be champs of the NFC. Number one, you're
a better road team right now than you are a
home team for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I mean as just factual, you know, just record wise.
And number two, I mean, I don't know if there
is a great team in the National Football League this year.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
The Rams I think have been the closest to it,
most consistently in the neighborhood of greatness all season long.
Certainly the Seahawks have spent some time at club greatness
this year, but I don't think they've been as consistently
great as what the Rams have been so particularly in
the NFC. I mean, the Philadelphi Eagles are coming off
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a Super Bowl and they look absolutely damaged. I mean,
they are very fortunate to be in a division with Dallas,
Washington and the Giants, because I think that they really
be panicking right now because their season seems to be
slipping away from them in Philadelphia. But statistically they're in
the right division. But so I don't think that's a
great team to have to go through. I certainly think
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they're a team that could get their stuff together in
three weeks time, and at home in the Northeast might
be a really difficult place to win, But I don't
see Los Angeles being some daunting home field advantage. The
scary part about them is that they're really good, yes,
and they're really well coached. That's the scary part about
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facing them in the playoffs. It's not because you have
to play it in Los Angeles, and I don't think
there's any chance you're going to be the seventh seed,
so and I don't think Tampa as the four seed
is any intimidating place to play or an intimidating team
to face. So I don't think there's a really a scenario.
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I don't think there's a gauntlet that you're facing even
if you do miss being the one seed. I think
it's just that type of year. Whoever plays the best
in the NFC playoffs is going to win. I don't
think it's going to come down to home field advantage
or you know what road that you're on. But certainly
you would love to have the buy first and foremost
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and make everybody come through loud ass Seattle to try
to take you down. So, yes, tonight is huge. I
just don't feel like it's make or break when it
comes to whether or not you can still achieve all
of your big, giant, lofty goals.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
The goal is to win the Super Bowl, obviously, and
I think that they have the right. They've played themselves
into that conversation and have the right to do it.
I see it as just drastically tougher if you just
have to not just play the extra game.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
That's a big one.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Obviously, everybody wants to win out and control your own
destiny and you get the buy everybody would say that,
right if you don't and you end up becoming the
five or possibly the six seed, depending on how the
next couple of games go. Buccaneers, I mean they they
put it on you here at home. Now they're not
playing the same as they would.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Put it on us.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I mean, they barely won a game where we played
our only crap defensive game of the entire year.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It felt like they did they did what they wanted
to do. That they came into your house and did
what they wanted to do. And that to me was
if if there's a game that would worry me, it
would be the Buccaneers because of the fact that.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
That's not the team nearly as well now as what
they were. I agree, but they can on any day.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Just say this just I don't mean to cut you off,
but bring on the Buccaneers. I'll face them any time anywhere.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, okay, you might get that, and then I would
say the same thing with the.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Fort against them.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
And there's no way that Mike McDonald's given up thirty
five points to anybody.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Well, I mean they have to that exact team this season.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So I'm just saying it's just it's not I'm not
saying it's impossible. I don't think that if they lose
this game and they have to go on the road
during the playoffs so they don't get the number one
seed and they don't win the division, that they can't
do it. I'm agreeing with you. I feel like it's
much tougher, not just because of the one extra game.
I think the Buccaneers are a team that you got
to worry about and if they've played each other already
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this year and we've seen that outcome at one point time,
and I agree, they're not playing near as well right now.
Same thing though with the Eagles. The Eagles to me,
have floundered their way to nine and five. I mean
there's still nine and five. It's not like they you
know they're they're gonna win the division. At eight and nine,
you know there's still nine and five. I wouldn't be
surprised if they get to ten or eleven wins before
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this whole thing's done and going and playing at Philadelphia.
That's a team most certainly that if they get hot
at the right time, you got to worry about it,
and you know it just everything just seems a whole
heck of a lot easier if you get to stay home,
sleep in your own bed.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You get it.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
God, I'm acknowledging the mugenous of getting the number one seed.
I just don't think this is a I think I
don't mean to call him out by name, but I
think Greg's kind of painted this as you're not going
to win if you don't get home field advantage. I
don't feel that way. I think that this is not
the year where if you don't get the number one seed.
It just to me, there's just not this gauntlet of
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teams great teams out there this year. I'm not even
sure if there's one in the entire National Football League
that I would call a great football team. And I
don't think that the home field advantages that you'd have
to manage. And I acknowledge I'll give Philadelphia and Green Bay,
but I don't think we end up in Green Bay.
I don't think that the math works that way.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
But other than that, I.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Don't think that there's some road that you have to
go on that is filled with you know.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Spikes and peril and danger.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Yeah, I will say too, just to finish up the
note on the Buccaneers. When we played them, we didn't
have nick emn Warry out there, which has made a
huge difference, and I don't think the defense in general
was the same.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I think Mike McDonald has night terrors like waking up
in the middle of the night like, oh, are you
dreaming about the Buccaneers again?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Honey?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, how did that happen?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Yeah, because it was just an offensive game. But it
was a I mean, it was again a three point game.
It was they were trading touchdowns for touchdowns. So I
don't think it would be that same outcome.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I don't either.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I don't either, And frankly, Caroline is playing better than them.
I mean, they've got to still beat Carolina. I just
heard their head coach say that his team is basically
quit on the season last week.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Oh and I guess they did have Nicky Menmorrey.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I at that's when I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
So you know, I mean, I think that I'm not
going to be worried about that, but I don't want
to make it about that. This conversation, obviously tonight is huge.
Love to have the number one seed. There's nothing else
that the focus is on for Mike McDonald and the
entire Seahawks organization, then winning this game tonight, finishing it off,
not letting San Francisco steal their lunch money on the
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last week of the regular season, having that first round,
by having everybody have to come.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Through Seattle in order.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
It's in your control.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, keep things into control. I just don't The only
point I was making, I just don't feel and I
felt like this in the past. You know that if
you don't get that number one seed, my gosh, what
you have to do to get to the super Bowl.
I don't think it's one of those years. So but
let's not worry about it. Let's just take the number
one seed and go from there.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I like it all right.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Coming up next, weather could play a major role in
tonight's game, but maybe not as major of a role
as we thought earlier in the week. Brian McMillan from
Fox thirteen's going to join us next Sports Radio ninety
three point three KJRFM Thursday Night Football. We are front
and center. We are the center of the football world
tonight as we get ready to take on the Los
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Angeles Rams. Hopefully our football team puts its best foot
forward or city puts its best foot forward. I'm certain
that it will, but what kind of conditions are the
teams going to play in? It seems to be that
at the beginning of the week it felt pretty dire,
but maybe the forecast is changing a little bit. We're
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so confused we wanted to check in with an expert,
and so joining us now here on the radio program
Chief Meteorologist at Fox thirteen, right here in Seattle, Brian
McMillan b mack himself is with us on Chuck and Buck.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
What up? Chief?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Hey guys, how's it calling this morning?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's game day?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
We're excited.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Go Hawks.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Do you make everybody call you chief around the station?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
There?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I would if I were you.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
When I got the promotion, it was a little weird. Yeah,
like everybody started calling me that and it it felt
a little weird, but I kind of like it now,
to be honest.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Make every let everybody off the hook, Butt Levine, make
Levine continue to call your chief. Yeah, but everybody else
can call you Brian or b mac or whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
He has to call you chief for the rest of
his cares, right exactly.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You know, he's a massive Dobby. Whenever I see Aaron Round,
I just throw trivia questions at him.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
All the time, and he always gets them right.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's really frustrating.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Has his head gotten big since he's become Jeopardy champion
over there?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
A little?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, a little left to be honest, I might would too.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I mean, come on then, never how many people can
say that?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
All right, Well, we needed to check in with an
expert today.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
There's a lot of speculation as to what's going on tonight.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
The best as you can tell right now, seven thirty
in the morning here on game day.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
What kind of weather are we going to have this
evening for the football game? Okay?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Well, right now we have steady rain, okay across the region.
I think by the time we get into game time,
so five fifteen kickoff here tonight at Womenfield, we're gonna
be looking at kind of on and off showers by
the time we get to kickoff. But I think the
bigger story tonight is going to be that wind, because
it's going to be kicking in again. We'll see guts
around thirty to forty miles an hour, So I don't
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think you're gonna see Meyers kicking six field goals tonight
or you know, probably not those fifty sixty yarders, So
might have to get the run game going a little
bit more this evening. It's going to be blustery, there
will be showers at times, and TIMPs are going to
be a little closer to fifty degrees. We always get
one of these games. I feel like every year here
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in Seattle, for these Seahawks games, we get one that's
you know, it's either dumping rain or it's a little
bit windy or.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
And tonight's going to be that in prime time under
the lights.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
B Mac.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I don't have the same tools I would imagine that
you do when it comes to looking at no chief, No,
I'm not a chief. I have an iPhone and that's
that's it. But I did look up the layers or
one of the screens that had the wind, and it
looked like it was coming straight from the south. So
I'm wondering, does it is it still? Do you think
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it'll be swirling in there or is this Could it
just be one of those boy, you're either throwing straight
into the wind or kicking straight into the wind, or
you got it at your back.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
One of the two.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I think it's kind of interesting down there, illuming because yeah,
the wind's gonna be coming in from the south or
kind of the southwest at that point. But yeah, and
it gets when it gets in the stadium there, it
can kind of swirl around a little bit. I wonder
if you know when we're usually, you know, on the
coin toe, you're thinking about, okay, am I going to
kick or am I going to defer? But they may
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be thinking about, Okay, which side of the field do
we want to be on instead? Because you probably want
to in the game kicking with the wind as opposed
to into the wind. That might be interesting tonight. And
you're gonna be want to of course, want to be
kicking towards the the north end zone there. So that'll
be interesting this evening because you know, we've had to
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rely on that kicking game.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Here for the past few weeks.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Not every chief meteorologist can insert valid football strategy in
his forecasts, but chief, but they get it done with
Chief Meteorologist Brian McMillan over there at Fox thirteen. All right, So,
I mean, what's the margin for a I mean, you
guys always are told you you know that you got
the forecast wrong, but you get it right more often
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than you get it wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Uh and so what's the what's the margin for era?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I mean, what kind of percentage chance do you give
it to Brian that the forecast changes between now and
five point fifteen.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I don't think it's gonna change.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
But okay, you know people, it's funny people people remember
like the three to five percent so that we're that
we're wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Oh yeah, they hold on.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
To it, and they hold on the back forcot for years,
for years. You I was repaving my driveway and you
ruined that that one time back in twenty fourteen. You know,
stuff like that. But uh no, this is this has
been pretty consistent in regards to our weather modeling and
all that stuff here over the past few days that
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we're gonna see some win today. So yeah, it's not terrible.
It's not gonna be like what we have yesterday morning.
I don't know if you guys still have power at
your house or if you get it knocked out during that,
that's not gonna.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Be that bad.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
But tonight it will be annoying and it will be blustering,
and you're gonna want to bundle up and you're gonna
want to.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Wear your rain gear just in case.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
That's gonna be the story down there at lumin But
it should be fun. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
This is the game of the season so far. Yeah,
you're right, right.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I've always wondered this if you guys have the ability
to figure out which kind of rain it is, because
we all know we've got enough rain up here. You
get that soaking rain, you know, big drops and just
torrential downpour.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You get that seattle mist that is just.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
More annoying, but it doesn't need You have ended up
getting drenched in the whole thing, but it's not all
that bad. Do you guys have information where you can
tell the difference between what kind of rain it's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It's like Forrest Gump, right, you know, upside down rain
and you got all the heavy rain Bay rain. Yeah,
you know, we can see, you know, the level of
precip so, like, yeah, how how intense it's gonna be.
Sometimes it's like small pockets where it's gonna be really
heavy for about five minutes and then it kind of
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moves on. What we're seeing this morning is really light,
kind of misty light showery rain. It's really annoying for
people with glasses like myself. You know, you need like
little windshiel wipers on your glasses. But tonight's going to
be more just on and off normal Pacific northwest showery rain.
Most of the heavier stuff's going to move its way
south into Portland. They're gonna be dealing with that here
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later on tonight.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
All right, me, Mack, thank you very much, sir. We
appreciate it, Chief, and enjoy the game tonight. I know
you'll be watching, and this was some really valuable data
for us, So thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Thanks boys.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I'll be there.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I can't wait. We gotta yell loud.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Tonight, Go Hawks, all right.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Brian McMillan from Fox thirteen Chief Meteorologists. He's not just
some foot soldier. Oh no, No, he's the chief over there. Yeah,
And I love it. I love that he's just like, now,
this is going to be the weather tonight, Like it's
not going to change what I'm telling you. That's the
weather tonight. And I guess I can live with that.
I know that, Hugh, we'll talk about weather in the roundtable.
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He'll tell you what you don't want it is across
the field. So if it's at back or you're throwing
against it, that's a lot better than it going across
the field because it's a little more unpredictable. But I
do believe it just hammers home. And maybe I'm reading
into it because it's my no cliche key to victory.
I just don't want this team digging a hole to
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try to prove that they're good at something that over
fourteen games that they haven't been. If we can run
the football tonight, great, take the weather, take the win
completely out of our chances. I mean, we can just
eliminate that element. Ken Walker finally goes off for one
hundred and seventy five yards and we win by thirteen
over the Los Angeles Rams, and we dance in the
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damp streets. Okay, that's great, But I don't want to
dig a hole because based off of that forecast, I
don't think we're gonna be able to come back against
this quality of a team, and because of the weather,
I don't think we're gonna be able to Jason Myers
our way to a victory tonight. We got to score touchdowns,
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and I don't want to just spend an entire half
trying to figure out if we run against this team tonight.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
I hear what you're saying, and I understand it.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I would be willing to bet that they're gonna do it, though,
I would be willing to.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Bet that because of it.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yes, if it's just a straight you know, north south wind, yeah,
I think it is not as difficult as this crosswind
that he always explains that said. You still you just
throw it into the wind and all of a sudden
the gus catches it and it's underthrown, and you know,
maybe it works out in your favor. Maybe it's the
other way around, and now their receiver stops and you
get a long p I call. I just think that
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there's both teams are going to be like, we want
to take that risk out of the equation a little
bit and see if the run game works. Because I'm
with you if if you do try it, and all
of a sudden he snaps off a couple of big
runs or consistent runs and moving chains, now all of
a sudden, you might you might win the thing running away.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yeah, i'le maybe you run against the wind like they
worked for Bob Stop Seeger would tell you or and
throw with the wind. I mean, would you make it
that obvious to the opponent? I don't know, but we
will certainly get some analysis from Greg and Hugh Gamed,
a twelfth Man round table coming up at eight o'clock,
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Mike Sando at nine thirty. Pretty much from eight to ten,
nothing but Seahawks and rams, which gives me this one
little crack in the show to ask Ashley and Bucky
for their hot stove. Christmas Wish of twenty twenty five
Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, all morning long.
Obviously it is the number one story of the day,
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but I did want to slip this in because there
seems to be a real big appetite right now hot
stove wise, some katel Marte rumors are flying all over
the place that maybe the Mariners are interested. Ryan Divish
described it as being a really difficult scenario. As much
as they'd like to have kateel Marte, there are some
clubhouse issues.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
That they're weighing.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
There's a financial issued awigh, there is a how much
do we have to give him issued away? There are
injury issues to weigh. There's a lot at stake if
you're going to try to acquire a Katel Marte, who's
been a superstar by the way, with the Arizona Diamondbacks
ever since he left here. I would just I can't
imagine the organization would want to even risk having traded
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him away before he got great, and then traded for him.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
After he was great.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
That would be a nightmare scenario if I were the Mariners.
So we'll see, We'll see where they go on that front.
But obviously, with Hora Polonko not here, there is an
appetite out there to try to find some sort of
second baseman slash DH type to put into this lineup.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
So we'll keep our eye on that.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
But we only have one baseball segment. We got the
holidays coming up. We'll certainly be talking all Seahawks rams
again tomorrow. So before we get to the holidays, I
wanted to ask you both, what is your stove Christmas
wish list? You give me one Christmas wish for the
Mariners roster before the offseason comes to a close.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
It would be Marte.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
It would be okay, yeah, I mean, I just think
I think the group of guys in that clubhouse, I
think that they can wrangle in if there's any issues
personality wise, I think that he will you know, conform
or or adjust or adapt and become part of what
the culture is. I don't think he'll come in and
ruin it. I think it's too strong for that, to
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be honest. And I don't care that he was dealt
when he basically when he when he was up and
coming before he had kind of burst on the scene
and became the superstar. I don't I am not going
to sit there and say, wow, we made a mistake there,
so we can't do it now. Now there is the
risk of you get him after his prime is over
and he's before and after. Yeah, that would be bad,
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but I'm not going to be fearful of that. I mean,
it's not like he's coming off a bad year. He
still is a dude that rakes. I mean, we need
some offense. Polonko's gone, Suarez has probably gone at least
at this point. He's not with us then, so at
this point you got to add some offense, and he
definitely brings that to the table.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
He's got a good glove.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
He could play second if you your youngsters don't.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
He could play third. I'm sure he could play third, if.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
You think he wants to be the DH from what
I'm hearing, and wants the DH to preserve himself for
longer years, so.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
It makes sense it could work out absolutely perfectly. And
I just flat out he's a guy that I think
you just go wow, put that name right there in
the top of the lineup somewhere.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
You're like, I like that.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Talk me into it, you know, I mean, you know
you're staring at one of the great Ktel Marte fans
in all of baseball. But it's not as quite cut
and dry as you know. It never is, right, It
never is quite as cut and dry as you think.
You'd actually get him for less of a salary per
year than what poluncle will be making the next couple
of years, but you obviously would have to give a
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trade compensation.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Package as well.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
All right, Ashley, what's your hot stove Christmas wish list?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Heading into this wonderful time?
Speaker 6 (32:57):
I mean, I'd be okay Christmas, yeah, and Christmas right now,
I think I'd be okay with either Marte or Donovan.
We've talked a lot about both of them, and just
looking kind of at their stats, they're relatively similar in
terms of batting, although.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I think maybe batting average, yeah.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
Batting everything else, yeah, batting average. I think Marte is
a bit more of a balanced hitter, I would say,
just looking at that stuff. In terms of walks and strikeouts, well,
Donovan doesn't walk as much, but they both strike out
about the same and they're both versatile in the field.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
So I think either one I'd be happy.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
I'd say, thank you, Santa.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
I'm going to choose as my Christmas wish list.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
I know you've already heard me talk about this guy,
Mouna Takamricami. I just can't resist, as this is a
time to give people impractical gifts. Right, you don't want socks?
I mean you might need jeans or both. Right, yeah,
well you can give socks. But if you're coming away
from the Christmas party with just socks, even though you
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might need that more than you need atomic squirt gun
for example. But if you really wanted the atomic sport
gun and you got the wouldn't you be just much happier. Inosaris,
who's one of the analytics nerds out there. He's built
quite a name for like crunching the numbers, and he
put out this statistical warning basically to anybody that wants
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this player that his hit rate and his swing and
miss rate is on par with and he puts together
this ghastly list of people that you would recognize as
big swing and miss guys. I mean, Mike Zanino is
on this list, Joey Gallo is on this list. Sam
Hilliard of the Rockies is on this list. Matt Wallner,
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who currently plays for the Twins. Christopher Morel, huge strikeout guy,
just signed with the Marlins, Chris Carter, the former first
baseman of the Brewers. And you read down the list,
Chris Davis is on the list. You read down the
list and you're like, oh, I don't want any of
those guys. I'm not gonna spend twenty million dollars on
any of those guys. But Joey Gallo hit thirty eight
homers or more three of his first five years, struck
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out a lot, didn't play a lot of defense. Chris
Davis hit forty two plus home runs three straight years
for the Oakland A's. I wouldn't mind that. I wouldn't
mind having that in the middle of the lineup. So uh,
it's just kind of one of those like guilty pleasure wishes, like,
I don't know. I can't sit here and tell you
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the only thing I've ever seen is highlight packages of
the guy. But so I can't sit here and tell
you that I've thoroughly scouted him. We've got nothing to
worry about. I have no idea. I just am kind
of leaning on this. Every single Japanese phenom they tell
me we should want ends up being awesome. So I
they're saying that he's the next great thing coming out
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of Japan, and his value apparently is plummeting financially.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I want him. I want him under my Christmas tree.
I just do know.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
I'm just picturing him wrapped up with a bow on
his head under the tree.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
I'm alright with it.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I mean, I'll take a little bit of swing and
miss if you're gonna pop forty fifty home runs for sure?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I mean, I mean, the list is.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
The idea of the list is to scare the crap
out of you, Like you don't want this guy?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
I wouldn't mind three straight years of forty five home
runs even if he strikes out two hundred and forty times.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Boy, mind that, I won't mind it. At the same time,
those are hard to watch, just as a former hitter
that I struck out plenty. But boyle boy I can't
imagine just walking back to the dugout like every other time,
like it's all or nothing.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
That is a there's parts of that that's frustrated as well.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Maybe he can be coached, well, that's one thing about
Japanese players, they typically are very coachable.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Pretty sure Murakami is not Japanese. For Mitch Garver, I
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
These guys want to be These guys are lawyers and
like real they want to be on.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
TV too, Brother, like the game. You don't think he's
texting his friends in.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The group chat like, Yo, you guys just saw me
Sunday football like that way.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
That wasn't p I like, but I called it was
seriously you do that that?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I mean?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
These guys are noble human beings too, bro. Like you
hear somebody else say that sounds silly.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
It's Chuck bucking Ashley with you here game day on
a Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
That's right. We're getting you set.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
For Seahawks Rams tonight right here in Seattle. Is it
gonna be windy? Is it gonna be rainy? Is it
gonna be neither? Is it gonna be both? We're gonna
talk a little bit. We're gonna talk to a weatherman,
that's right, ye know, grandall, hey turn on the weatherman.
So Grandpa, you tell me, northy turn on the weather man.
That's funny, yeah, uh. And so we'll be turning on
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the weather man a little bit later on this hour
to find out exactly what we can expect and how
it could impact the game a little bit later on
this hour. Also our twelve man Roundtable Today Game Day
Roundtable with Hugh Millen and Greg Bell, starting at eight o'clock.
What a special special evening. We've got a plan for
Seahawks versus Rams. Good morning. Let's first though, talk about
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your frost brewed Corslight choose chill headlines. Of course, it
does start with that game five point fifteen kickoff, and.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It will be aired locally.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It won't just be the Prime video broadcast. They will
air it locally, so you don't have to worry about that.
Charles Cross is out for the Seahawks, our starting left tackle,
and Mike McDonald didn't beat around the bush Josh Jones.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
They feel okay with Josh Jones.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
He's been on the roster all season long, hasn't played
that much, but this is why he's here to be
that guy that will step in for either Abe Lucas
or Charles Cross or Josh Jones will get the start
tonight at left tackle in the biggest game of the year.
Davante Adams is being listed as doubtful. Most people reading
into it believe there's really no shot that the Rams.
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The wide receiver and possible future Hall of Famer is
going to play tonight, but that Sean mcvayh wanted to
keep hope alive, either lying to himself or forcing Mike
McDonald to have to strategize for something that's not even
going to participate. But it's looking very doubtful that DeVante
Adams will play for the Rams. Will bring a professional
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on to talk about this later this hour. But there
is a chance there won't be much rain tonight, it's
looking like, and yet there could be high winds tonight.
So again we'll get into that at seven point thirty
with somebody that does.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
This for a lidding, thank goodness, because yeah, we don't.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
This is the week where NFL Saturday games start, so
you're gonna have college football playoff games, three of them
with two NFL games on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
That's some prime watching right there. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Philadelphia at Washington, Green Bay at Chicago.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That second game is a monster.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Which we'll discuss here in a little bit as we
look at the playoff picture for the Seahawks in the NFC.
But those are the two games on Saturday, and then
of course a full slate on Sunday as well.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
You doub losing talent.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yesterday, entering the transfer portal was running back Adam Muhammad
and wide receiver Raident vines Bright also offensive lineman Zach Henning.
Had a few Husky fans wondering what the heck is
going on? Is Fish really leaving? The Michigan rumors will
not die, And when you lose three prominent young players
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like that in a short period of time, it certainly
gets the mind to whirlindrases eyebrows. I don't know. I
don't know what to tell you. I don't have any
inside information. I would say that there's enough smoke there
that I wouldn't rule it out. That's true that Jetfish
is leaving, and that these moves yesterday had something to
do with that. Maybe he's leaked a little information, But
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there's also a really good store to tell in regards
to I think every program's gonna lose players every single year.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's just where we are.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Number two, The Huskies have already finished their bowl game.
Where most bowl games have not been played, They've already
cleaned out their lockers, So it shouldn't be surprising to
people that a few players have moved on earlier than
other programs. Have had to confront and then look, I mean,
Adam Mohammad might.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Be replaced by Jordan Wash.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
He's been waiting to be the RB one through the
entire Jonah Coleman era, and now he might not get
the chance because of how good and how fast and
how talented Jordan Washington is. So maybe he sees the
riding on the wall and wants to get to a
place where he's guaranteed more carries.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And then with Rayden Vines Bright, I mean, he had
a really scary injury, really scary.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
To the point where you know, it's one of those
type of injuries where he goes to the hospital and
mom and dad spend all night worrying about you. He's
from Tempe, Arizona. This could be a case of I'm
saying you are coming home. I am not going to
go through I mean, who knows. There gonna be a
million different reasons why these things happened yesterday. But obviously
when your head coach at your local football program as
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a nomad, our minds naturally go to, oh my.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Gosh, you might be leaving after all?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Right, right, I think just about everybody probably had their
mind jumped to that conclusion. And yet I mean, I'll
just say, at the end of every season in college,
you would end up having a conversation with your coach, right,
And I know I had a few buddies that would
go in and talk to ed chef and what do
I need to work on, coach, And you go, you
got a lot to work on. The first thing is
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I'd find somewhere else to play because you're not going
to play here.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That happened to you every year, not to me.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Oh okay, but I have some buddies that that happened
to He just told me you got to work on
pretty much everything.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, mainly your attitude and your fashion.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That well, my fashion was garbage, but that was part
for the course. This was the nineteen nineties, remember, and
so no, it was an attitude was fine. It was
just his way of being like, your hitting still garbage.
Defense sucks really bad. Your mentality is the worst I've
ever let anyone wear a warrior uniform. So take that
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into account as you go into the off season. I
would just basically work on everything because you're horrible.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And get some breath mints. Yea, he probably maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You did as I was leaving and I just was.
I couldn't hear it through my tears.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I don't know, but I do.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I mean, the idea of a post season, a postseason
conversation with your coach happens. It could be that simple now,
and you add the murkiness of money. If they're like, hey,
we're right now, we don't have to pay Jordan as
much and you know we need that money that we.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Have set aside for you to go here. Who knows?
Man to me, it's just one of those we can speculate.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's it's a topic for us to discuss on sports
talk radio, but we don't know what the the situation is.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Could be a thousand different reasons for it.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
But one of those reasons is Jedfish is leading great YEP,
could be one of my So I think we're I
think we're kind of prepared for anything. That's so what
you have to be as a college football.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Fan right now. I think so.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
And if you're not, then you're you're you got your
head in the sand and you're pretending things haven't changed,
and they have changed. They have changed a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
They have changed dramatically.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
College football playoff will start on Friday, Alabama at Oklahoma
will be the matchup, and then three games on Saturday.
Kurt Signetti named National Coach of the Year for a
second consecutive season there at Indiana and the Kraken will
be in action tonight in Calgary to take on the Flames.
They have lost nine of their last ten games. They've
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got to get it right and right now. Lane Lambert
in the program struggling, no question about that. Those are
your frost brewed cors like choose Chill headlines again twelve
man round table today at eight. Mike Sander will join
us DELP preview the game tonight at and yes, there
there is a playoff picture to consider here. So let
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me paint this for you, let me bob ross it
for you here. Maybe we'll put a little bush down here.
Sometimes mistakes can turn into something wonderfully on a canvas.
But yeah, bush exactly. But game day tonight, and yes,
the Seahawks can clinch a playoff spot tonight where they win.
It's just as simple as that. A win and they
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are in the postseason. But they're certainly more at stake
than that. You got your eye fixed on finishing first
place in the NFC West, which almost certainly is going
to lead to you finishing with the number one seed
in the entire NFC playoffs, and there's a lot of
good that comes from that. That's home field advantage throughout
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your NFC playoffs. That's also a bye. Now we have
seven teams in the playoffs, only one team gets a bye.
It's the team with that one seed. So there is
certainly a lot to get from this victory tonight. It
doesn't guarantee you anything. You still have to play Carolina.
You still have to play San Francisco. San Francisco, believe
it or not, controls its own destiny as well. All
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three of these teams do, Rams, Seahawks, forty nine Ers.
All three of them control their own destiny. If they
went out, they're gonna be the number one seed. Because
the Seahawks have to turn around in a couple of
weeks and take on the forty nine ers and not
ignore Carolina, and they're push they're a better team with
a lot at stake next week. So there is a
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lot still left to do. But there's no doubt that
a win tonight at home against the Rams, thanks to
that Rams loss a couple of weeks ago, that was
so unexpected. We are in a position to take stranglehold
of the NFC West and that number one seed with
a victory tonight. That's why this thing is so damn huge.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's huge. I mean it feels like, I mean, they're
gonna make the playoffs. The Seahawks are gonna make the playoffs.
So they would have to be like a month, they'd
have to lose all of them and somebody else come up.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Detroit has them all. That's very simple.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
If they lost them all and Detroit won them all,
then Detroit and there's still a chance the Seahawks get
in by percentage points because we did not face Detroita.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You're right right.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It basically is a greater than ninety nine percent chance
that they're gonna make the playoffs. But how you make
the playoffs is a different story. And to me, when
I look at Okay, what you have going forward, and
you can't look past tonight's game, obviously that's the first thing,
but it's if you don't win this game, the idea
of you getting that number one spot, winning the division,
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when when the Rams get to play Atlanta and Arizona,
it seems futile. It seems like you. Basically that is gone.
The division is gone, the number one seed is gone.
So then you're going on the road and playing somebody
and making it a little bit tougher path. Not that
they can't play on the road, but it's just tougher.
You'd much rather have a buy. So, yeah, it's a
It's a big one, There's no doubt about it. I mean,
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then you move on to the next game, and you
got to try to take care of business against Carolina,
who at this point still has something to play for.
They're in a big division game this weekend against the Buccaneers.
So and then you get the Niners at the end
of it, who are just trying to kind of wait
in the grass and sneak up and bite somebody.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
I think the great thing is though, that it is
all in your own control, right, You control your destiny.
You're not saying, Okay, well we've got to win out
and we need these other things to happen for us
to be in the position we want to be in.
All you have to do, not that it's easy, but
you just have to win your games. So focus on you.
You don't have to worry about what other people are doing.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
They do of the three of the toughest remaining schedule. Yes,
I mean the Rams lost at Carolina just a couple
of weeks ago, so they can get you, and then
they still have to play San Francisco. But yes, that's
the exact position after fourteen games that you want to
be in, right, be able to control your own destiny.
Have a home game against the team that has already
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beaten you once here tonight, and to take them out.
And look, I mean as much val you goes with
this win and finishing out winning the division and most
likely taking the well, you would end up with the
one seed if you want out, you even control that.
I don't think that the road I mean is as
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daunting as it normally is.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I mean, if you don't end up with the one.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Seed, I think there's still a very good chance that
you could be champs of the NFC. Number one, you're
a better road team right now than you are a
home team for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I mean as just factual, you know, just record wise.
And number two, I mean, I don't know if there
is a great team in the National Football League this year.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
The Rams I think have been the closest to it,
most consistently in the neighborhood of greatness all season long.
Certainly the Seahawks have spent some time at club greatness
this year, but I don't think they've been as consistently
great as what the Rams have been so particularly in
the NFC. I mean, the Philadelphi Eagles are coming off
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a Super Bowl and they look absolutely damaged. I mean,
they are very fortunate to be in a division with Dallas,
Washington and the Giants, because I think that they really
be panicking right now because their season seems to be
slipping away from them in Philadelphia. But statistically they're in
the right division. But so I don't think that's a
great team to have to go through. I certainly think
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they're a team that could get their stuff together in
three weeks time, and at home in the Northeast might
be a really difficult place to win, But I don't
see Los Angeles being some daunting home field advantage. The
scary part about them is that they're really good, yes,
and they're really well coached. That's the scary part about
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facing them in the playoffs. It's not because you have
to play it in Los Angeles, and I don't think
there's any chance you're going to be the seventh seed,
so and I don't think Tampa as the four seed
is any intimidating place to play or an intimidating team
to face. So I don't think there's a really a scenario.
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I don't think there's a gauntlet that you're facing even
if you do miss being the one seed. I think
it's just that type of year. Whoever plays the best
in the NFC playoffs is going to win. I don't
think it's going to come down to home field advantage
or you know what road that you're on. But certainly
you would love to have the buy first and foremost
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and make everybody come through loud ass Seattle to try
to take you down. So, yes, tonight is huge. I
just don't feel like it's make or break when it
comes to whether or not you can still achieve all
of your big, giant, lofty goals.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
The goal is to win the Super Bowl, obviously, and
I think that they have the right. They've played themselves
into that conversation and have the right to do it.
I see it as just drastically tougher if you just
have to not just play the extra game.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
That's a big one.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Obviously, everybody wants to win out and control your own
destiny and you get the buy everybody would say that,
right if you don't and you end up becoming the
five or possibly the six seed, depending on how the
next couple of games go. Buccaneers, I mean they they
put it on you here at home. Now they're not
playing the same as they would.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Put it on us.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I mean, they barely won a game where we played
our only crap defensive game of the entire year.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It felt like they did they did what they wanted
to do. That they came into your house and did
what they wanted to do. And that to me was
if if there's a game that would worry me, it
would be the Buccaneers because of the fact that.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
That's not the team nearly as well now as what
they were. I agree, but they can on any day.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Just say this just I don't mean to cut you off,
but bring on the Buccaneers. I'll face them any time anywhere.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, okay, you might get that, and then I would
say the same thing with the.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Fort against them.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
And there's no way that Mike McDonald's given up thirty
five points to anybody.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Well, I mean they have to that exact team this season.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So I'm just saying it's just it's not I'm not
saying it's impossible. I don't think that if they lose
this game and they have to go on the road
during the playoffs so they don't get the number one
seed and they don't win the division, that they can't
do it. I'm agreeing with you. I feel like it's
much tougher, not just because of the one extra game.
I think the Buccaneers are a team that you got
to worry about and if they've played each other already
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this year and we've seen that outcome at one point time,
and I agree, they're not playing near as well right now.
Same thing though with the Eagles. The Eagles to me,
have floundered their way to nine and five. I mean
there's still nine and five. It's not like they you
know they're they're gonna win the division. At eight and nine,
you know there's still nine and five. I wouldn't be
surprised if they get to ten or eleven wins before
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this whole thing's done and going and playing at Philadelphia.
That's a team most certainly that if they get hot
at the right time, you got to worry about it,
and you know it just everything just seems a whole
heck of a lot easier if you get to stay home,
sleep in your own bed.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You get it.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
God, I'm acknowledging the mugenous of getting the number one seed.
I just don't think this is a I think I
don't mean to call him out by name, but I
think Greg's kind of painted this as you're not going
to win if you don't get home field advantage. I
don't feel that way. I think that this is not
the year where if you don't get the number one seed.
It just to me, there's just not this gauntlet of
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teams great teams out there this year. I'm not even
sure if there's one in the entire National Football League
that I would call a great football team. And I
don't think that the home field advantages that you'd have
to manage. And I acknowledge I'll give Philadelphia and Green Bay,
but I don't think we end up in Green Bay.
I don't think that the math works that way.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
But other than that, I.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Don't think that there's some road that you have to
go on that is filled with you know.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Spikes and peril and danger.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Yeah, I will say too, just to finish up the
note on the Buccaneers. When we played them, we didn't
have nick emn Warry out there, which has made a
huge difference, and I don't think the defense in general
was the same.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I think Mike McDonald has night terrors like waking up
in the middle of the night like, oh, are you
dreaming about the Buccaneers again?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Honey?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, how did that happen?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Yeah, because it was just an offensive game. But it
was a I mean, it was again a three point game.
It was they were trading touchdowns for touchdowns. So I
don't think it would be that same outcome.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I don't either.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I don't either, And frankly, Caroline is playing better than them.
I mean, they've got to still beat Carolina. I just
heard their head coach say that his team is basically
quit on the season last week.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Oh and I guess they did have Nicky Menmorrey.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I at that's when I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
So you know, I mean, I think that I'm not
going to be worried about that, but I don't want
to make it about that. This conversation, obviously tonight is huge.
Love to have the number one seed. There's nothing else
that the focus is on for Mike McDonald and the
entire Seahawks organization, then winning this game tonight, finishing it off,
not letting San Francisco steal their lunch money on the
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last week of the regular season, having that first round,
by having everybody have to come.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Through Seattle in order.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
It's in your control.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, keep things into control. I just don't The only
point I was making, I just don't feel and I
felt like this in the past. You know that if
you don't get that number one seed, my gosh, what
you have to do to get to the super Bowl.
I don't think it's one of those years. So but
let's not worry about it. Let's just take the number
one seed and go from there.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I like it all right.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Coming up next, weather could play a major role in
tonight's game, but maybe not as major of a role
as we thought earlier in the week. Brian McMillan from
Fox thirteen's going to join us next Sports Radio ninety
three point three KJRFM Thursday Night Football. We are front
and center. We are the center of the football world
tonight as we get ready to take on the Los
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Angeles Rams. Hopefully our football team puts its best foot
forward or city puts its best foot forward. I'm certain
that it will, but what kind of conditions are the
teams going to play in? It seems to be that
at the beginning of the week it felt pretty dire,
but maybe the forecast is changing a little bit. We're
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so confused we wanted to check in with an expert,
and so joining us now here on the radio program
Chief Meteorologist at Fox thirteen, right here in Seattle, Brian
McMillan b mack himself is with us on Chuck and Buck.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
What up? Chief?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Hey guys, how's it calling this morning?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's game day?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
We're excited.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Go Hawks.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Do you make everybody call you chief around the station?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
There?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I would if I were you.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
When I got the promotion, it was a little weird. Yeah,
like everybody started calling me that and it it felt
a little weird, but I kind of like it now,
to be honest.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Make every let everybody off the hook, Butt Levine, make
Levine continue to call your chief. Yeah, but everybody else
can call you Brian or b mac or whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
He has to call you chief for the rest of
his cares, right exactly.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You know, he's a massive Dobby. Whenever I see Aaron Round,
I just throw trivia questions at him.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
All the time, and he always gets them right.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's really frustrating.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Has his head gotten big since he's become Jeopardy champion
over there?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
A little?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, a little left to be honest, I might would too.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I mean, come on then, never how many people can
say that?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
All right, Well, we needed to check in with an
expert today.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
There's a lot of speculation as to what's going on tonight.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
The best as you can tell right now, seven thirty
in the morning here on game day.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
What kind of weather are we going to have this
evening for the football game? Okay?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Well, right now we have steady rain, okay across the region.
I think by the time we get into game time,
so five fifteen kickoff here tonight at Womenfield, we're gonna
be looking at kind of on and off showers by
the time we get to kickoff. But I think the
bigger story tonight is going to be that wind, because
it's going to be kicking in again. We'll see guts
around thirty to forty miles an hour, So I don't
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think you're gonna see Meyers kicking six field goals tonight
or you know, probably not those fifty sixty yarders, So
might have to get the run game going a little
bit more this evening. It's going to be blustery, there
will be showers at times, and TIMPs are going to
be a little closer to fifty degrees. We always get
one of these games. I feel like every year here
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in Seattle, for these Seahawks games, we get one that's
you know, it's either dumping rain or it's a little
bit windy or.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
And tonight's going to be that in prime time under
the lights.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
B Mac.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I don't have the same tools I would imagine that
you do when it comes to looking at no chief, No,
I'm not a chief. I have an iPhone and that's
that's it. But I did look up the layers or
one of the screens that had the wind, and it
looked like it was coming straight from the south. So
I'm wondering, does it is it still? Do you think
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it'll be swirling in there or is this Could it
just be one of those boy, you're either throwing straight
into the wind or kicking straight into the wind, or
you got it at your back.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
One of the two.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I think it's kind of interesting down there, illuming because yeah,
the wind's gonna be coming in from the south or
kind of the southwest at that point. But yeah, and
it gets when it gets in the stadium there, it
can kind of swirl around a little bit. I wonder
if you know when we're usually, you know, on the
coin toe, you're thinking about, okay, am I going to
kick or am I going to defer? But they may
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be thinking about, Okay, which side of the field do
we want to be on instead? Because you probably want
to in the game kicking with the wind as opposed
to into the wind. That might be interesting tonight. And
you're gonna be want to of course, want to be
kicking towards the the north end zone there. So that'll
be interesting this evening because you know, we've had to
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rely on that kicking game.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Here for the past few weeks.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Not every chief meteorologist can insert valid football strategy in
his forecasts, but chief, but they get it done with
Chief Meteorologist Brian McMillan over there at Fox thirteen. All right, So,
I mean, what's the margin for a I mean, you
guys always are told you you know that you got
the forecast wrong, but you get it right more often
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than you get it wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Uh and so what's the what's the margin for era?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I mean, what kind of percentage chance do you give
it to Brian that the forecast changes between now and
five point fifteen.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I don't think it's gonna change.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
But okay, you know people, it's funny people people remember
like the three to five percent so that we're that
we're wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Oh yeah, they hold on.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
To it, and they hold on the back forcot for years,
for years. You I was repaving my driveway and you
ruined that that one time back in twenty fourteen. You know,
stuff like that. But uh no, this is this has
been pretty consistent in regards to our weather modeling and
all that stuff here over the past few days that
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we're gonna see some win today. So yeah, it's not terrible.
It's not gonna be like what we have yesterday morning.
I don't know if you guys still have power at
your house or if you get it knocked out during that,
that's not gonna.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Be that bad.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
But tonight it will be annoying and it will be blustering,
and you're gonna want to bundle up and you're gonna
want to.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Wear your rain gear just in case.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
That's gonna be the story down there at lumin But
it should be fun. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
This is the game of the season so far. Yeah,
you're right, right.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I've always wondered this if you guys have the ability
to figure out which kind of rain it is, because
we all know we've got enough rain up here. You
get that soaking rain, you know, big drops and just
torrential downpour.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You get that seattle mist that is just.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
More annoying, but it doesn't need You have ended up
getting drenched in the whole thing, but it's not all
that bad. Do you guys have information where you can
tell the difference between what kind of rain it's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It's like Forrest Gump, right, you know, upside down rain
and you got all the heavy rain Bay rain. Yeah,
you know, we can see, you know, the level of
precip so, like, yeah, how how intense it's gonna be.
Sometimes it's like small pockets where it's gonna be really
heavy for about five minutes and then it kind of
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moves on. What we're seeing this morning is really light,
kind of misty light showery rain. It's really annoying for
people with glasses like myself. You know, you need like
little windshiel wipers on your glasses. But tonight's going to
be more just on and off normal Pacific northwest showery rain.
Most of the heavier stuff's going to move its way
south into Portland. They're gonna be dealing with that here
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later on tonight.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
All right, me, Mack, thank you very much, sir. We
appreciate it, Chief, and enjoy the game tonight. I know
you'll be watching, and this was some really valuable data
for us, So thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Thanks boys.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I'll be there.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I can't wait. We gotta yell loud.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Tonight, Go Hawks, all right.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Brian McMillan from Fox thirteen Chief Meteorologists. He's not just
some foot soldier. Oh no, No, he's the chief over there. Yeah,
And I love it. I love that he's just like, now,
this is going to be the weather tonight, Like it's
not going to change what I'm telling you. That's the
weather tonight. And I guess I can live with that.
I know that, Hugh, we'll talk about weather in the roundtable.
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He'll tell you what you don't want it is across
the field. So if it's at back or you're throwing
against it, that's a lot better than it going across
the field because it's a little more unpredictable. But I
do believe it just hammers home. And maybe I'm reading
into it because it's my no cliche key to victory.
I just don't want this team digging a hole to
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try to prove that they're good at something that over
fourteen games that they haven't been. If we can run
the football tonight, great, take the weather, take the win
completely out of our chances. I mean, we can just
eliminate that element. Ken Walker finally goes off for one
hundred and seventy five yards and we win by thirteen
over the Los Angeles Rams, and we dance in the
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damp streets. Okay, that's great, But I don't want to
dig a hole because based off of that forecast, I
don't think we're gonna be able to come back against
this quality of a team, and because of the weather,
I don't think we're gonna be able to Jason Myers
our way to a victory tonight. We got to score touchdowns,
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and I don't want to just spend an entire half
trying to figure out if we run against this team tonight.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
I hear what you're saying, and I understand it.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I would be willing to bet that they're gonna do it, though,
I would be willing to.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Bet that because of it.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yes, if it's just a straight you know, north south wind, yeah,
I think it is not as difficult as this crosswind
that he always explains that said. You still you just
throw it into the wind and all of a sudden
the gus catches it and it's underthrown, and you know,
maybe it works out in your favor. Maybe it's the
other way around, and now their receiver stops and you
get a long p I call. I just think that
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there's both teams are going to be like, we want
to take that risk out of the equation a little
bit and see if the run game works. Because I'm
with you if if you do try it, and all
of a sudden he snaps off a couple of big
runs or consistent runs and moving chains, now all of
a sudden, you might you might win the thing running away.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yeah, i'le maybe you run against the wind like they
worked for Bob Stop Seeger would tell you or and
throw with the wind. I mean, would you make it
that obvious to the opponent? I don't know, but we
will certainly get some analysis from Greg and Hugh Gamed,
a twelfth Man round table coming up at eight o'clock,
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Mike Sando at nine thirty. Pretty much from eight to ten,
nothing but Seahawks and rams, which gives me this one
little crack in the show to ask Ashley and Bucky
for their hot stove. Christmas Wish of twenty twenty five
Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, all morning long.
Obviously it is the number one story of the day,
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but I did want to slip this in because there
seems to be a real big appetite right now hot
stove wise, some katel Marte rumors are flying all over
the place that maybe the Mariners are interested. Ryan Divish
described it as being a really difficult scenario. As much
as they'd like to have kateel Marte, there are some
clubhouse issues.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
That they're weighing.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
There's a financial issued awigh, there is a how much
do we have to give him issued away? There are
injury issues to weigh. There's a lot at stake if
you're going to try to acquire a Katel Marte, who's
been a superstar by the way, with the Arizona Diamondbacks
ever since he left here. I would just I can't
imagine the organization would want to even risk having traded
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him away before he got great, and then traded for him.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
After he was great.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
That would be a nightmare scenario if I were the Mariners.
So we'll see, We'll see where they go on that front.
But obviously, with Hora Polonko not here, there is an
appetite out there to try to find some sort of
second baseman slash DH type to put into this lineup.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
So we'll keep our eye on that.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
But we only have one baseball segment. We got the
holidays coming up. We'll certainly be talking all Seahawks rams
again tomorrow. So before we get to the holidays, I
wanted to ask you both, what is your stove Christmas
wish list? You give me one Christmas wish for the
Mariners roster before the offseason comes to a close.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
It would be Marte.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
It would be okay, yeah, I mean, I just think
I think the group of guys in that clubhouse, I
think that they can wrangle in if there's any issues
personality wise, I think that he will you know, conform
or or adjust or adapt and become part of what
the culture is. I don't think he'll come in and
ruin it. I think it's too strong for that, to
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be honest. And I don't care that he was dealt
when he basically when he when he was up and
coming before he had kind of burst on the scene
and became the superstar. I don't I am not going
to sit there and say, wow, we made a mistake there,
so we can't do it now. Now there is the
risk of you get him after his prime is over
and he's before and after. Yeah, that would be bad,
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but I'm not going to be fearful of that. I mean,
it's not like he's coming off a bad year. He
still is a dude that rakes. I mean, we need
some offense. Polonko's gone, Suarez has probably gone at least
at this point. He's not with us then, so at
this point you got to add some offense, and he
definitely brings that to the table.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
He's got a good glove.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
He could play second if you your youngsters don't.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
He could play third. I'm sure he could play third, if.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
You think he wants to be the DH from what
I'm hearing, and wants the DH to preserve himself for
longer years, so.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
It makes sense it could work out absolutely perfectly. And
I just flat out he's a guy that I think
you just go wow, put that name right there in
the top of the lineup somewhere.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
You're like, I like that.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Talk me into it, you know, I mean, you know
you're staring at one of the great Ktel Marte fans
in all of baseball. But it's not as quite cut
and dry as you know. It never is, right, It
never is quite as cut and dry as you think.
You'd actually get him for less of a salary per
year than what poluncle will be making the next couple
of years, but you obviously would have to give a
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trade compensation.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Package as well.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
All right, Ashley, what's your hot stove Christmas wish list?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Heading into this wonderful time?
Speaker 6 (32:57):
I mean, I'd be okay Christmas, yeah, and Christmas right now,
I think I'd be okay with either Marte or Donovan.
We've talked a lot about both of them, and just
looking kind of at their stats, they're relatively similar in
terms of batting, although.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I think maybe batting average, yeah.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
Batting everything else, yeah, batting average. I think Marte is
a bit more of a balanced hitter, I would say,
just looking at that stuff. In terms of walks and strikeouts, well,
Donovan doesn't walk as much, but they both strike out
about the same and they're both versatile in the field.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
So I think either one I'd be happy.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
I'd say, thank you, Santa.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
I'm going to choose as my Christmas wish list.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
I know you've already heard me talk about this guy,
Mouna Takamricami. I just can't resist, as this is a
time to give people impractical gifts. Right, you don't want socks?
I mean you might need jeans or both. Right, yeah,
well you can give socks. But if you're coming away
from the Christmas party with just socks, even though you
(33:55):
might need that more than you need atomic squirt gun
for example. But if you really wanted the atomic sport
gun and you got the wouldn't you be just much happier. Inosaris,
who's one of the analytics nerds out there. He's built
quite a name for like crunching the numbers, and he
put out this statistical warning basically to anybody that wants
(34:17):
this player that his hit rate and his swing and
miss rate is on par with and he puts together
this ghastly list of people that you would recognize as
big swing and miss guys. I mean, Mike Zanino is
on this list, Joey Gallo is on this list. Sam
Hilliard of the Rockies is on this list. Matt Wallner,
(34:39):
who currently plays for the Twins. Christopher Morel, huge strikeout guy,
just signed with the Marlins, Chris Carter, the former first
baseman of the Brewers. And you read down the list,
Chris Davis is on the list. You read down the
list and you're like, oh, I don't want any of
those guys. I'm not gonna spend twenty million dollars on
any of those guys. But Joey Gallo hit thirty eight
homers or more three of his first five years, struck
(35:01):
out a lot, didn't play a lot of defense. Chris
Davis hit forty two plus home runs three straight years
for the Oakland A's. I wouldn't mind that. I wouldn't
mind having that in the middle of the lineup. So uh,
it's just kind of one of those like guilty pleasure wishes, like,
I don't know. I can't sit here and tell you
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the only thing I've ever seen is highlight packages of
the guy. But so I can't sit here and tell
you that I've thoroughly scouted him. We've got nothing to
worry about. I have no idea. I just am kind
of leaning on this. Every single Japanese phenom they tell
me we should want ends up being awesome. So I
they're saying that he's the next great thing coming out
(35:44):
of Japan, and his value apparently is plummeting financially.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I want him. I want him under my Christmas tree.
I just do know.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
I'm just picturing him wrapped up with a bow on
his head under the tree.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
I'm alright with it.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I mean, I'll take a little bit of swing and
miss if you're gonna pop forty fifty home runs for sure?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I mean, I mean, the list is.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
The idea of the list is to scare the crap
out of you, Like you don't want this guy?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
I wouldn't mind three straight years of forty five home
runs even if he strikes out two hundred and forty times.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Boy, mind that, I won't mind it. At the same time,
those are hard to watch, just as a former hitter
that I struck out plenty. But boyle boy I can't
imagine just walking back to the dugout like every other time,
like it's all or nothing.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
That is a there's parts of that that's frustrated as well.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Maybe he can be coached, well, that's one thing about
Japanese players, they typically are very coachable.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Pretty sure Murakami is not Japanese. For Mitch Garver, I
help you all right. Twelve man round table is next.
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM
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