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December 23, 2025 37 mins
Headlines and 12th Man News with GREGG BELL (Tacoma News Tribune) The Seahawks have a tough battle to win the NFC West and secure the #1 seed in the NFC; can they pull it off? Injury updates and the latest from the VMAC. :30- MIKE KAYE (Charlotte Observer) Mike joins us from Charlotte ahead of the Seahawks vs Panthers on Sunday. The Panthers have surprised a lot of people. Inconsistency continues to be their main issue, what kind of a team are the Panthers? :45- It’s Christmas time!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Look called long lead feed broken up televiden got what
ihead Everley there the empty NATI scars shorting every whipboards
deliver is a big blow and it could be the
final one thirty five second slept in regulation as every

(00:22):
breaking the time we're back to back goals and the
crack and take.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
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(00:47):
See after details A good game, good game they won,
can't weait to talk to FITZI and find out what
that means if that's if that means we're off the schneid.
We're ready to rock and roll. Everly, a couple they're
an empty netter like that, a couple of injuries to
speak of. I'm sure I Fitz You'll have all the
information that we need. We will get to that right now.
We're going to get to some highlights besides the crack

(01:10):
and wind. They won three to one last night over
the Ducks. I don't mind saying the Ducks lose.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
And when it comes to hockey, I don't mind it either.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's that's it. That's it. No, that's that's the only
time I don't I don't like it. I did notice.
I listened to the MJ Show on the way home
yesterday because you were on, and you guys, that's one thing.
You guys are right, two peas in a pod.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
When it comes to hating the Ducks, apparently he hates
them just as much as I did, which is weird
because I did not think that, and I don't mean
it weird in a bad way. I just would be
surprised that people from the East Coast have the disdain
for the Ducks.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
That he and he just knows that people around here
a lot of them hate the Ducks. Maybe, so he's like,
I think I'll hate them too.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Well, it's a smart move if you want people to
like you.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah it's not and it's not working. But anyways, anyways,
we need to go there.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
We do.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Other headlines. DK get suspended for the rest of the
regular season for kind of punching, trying to punch, somewhat punching,
basically having poor interaction with a fan, whether it's whether
the person said something or not. You can't do that.
And the league came down on him with basically suspended
him the last two games of the regular season. But

(02:22):
they're in the middle of a playoff race to win
their division. And the big kicker is that that kicks
in some detrimental conduct clause that basically does it makes
forty five million of his contract that was guaranteed no
longer guaranteed. So we will see if that comes back
to haunt him. I kind of hope it doesn't, but

(02:43):
at the same time, I hope that at least the
fear of it makes him pull his head out of
his button. Understand, there's just certain things you can and
can't do when you're professional athlete. So we shall see. Basically,
not yesterday, but I think the day before the Minnetaka
Muracawi Murakam signed with the White Sox two years coming

(03:04):
no White Sox. I don't understand it really, to be honest,
because it's such a friendly deal compared to what he
was asking for or what he was expected to make.
I mean, he was talked about it's like forty million
dollars a year. Guy he signed for two years for
seventeen million bucks.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Oh that disappointment for him, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, Well, disappointment for him, kind of disappointing for Mariner
fans that, I mean, I know Chuck's gonna have something
to say about it when he's back on Friday. I'm sure,
because that just seems like a really really good deal.
Now you could get him for two years. The White
Sox's getting for his two years while he gets his
feet wet and figures out what big league pitching's all about,
and then he's gonna hit the free agent market and
be able to kind of do whatever. He's gonna get

(03:44):
whatever he yearns. Basically in that on the heels of
that deal, to some degree, the Mariner's justtually signed Rob
Refschneider to a one year deal six and a quarter
million dollars. Basically, he's going to be your DH against
left handed pitching, and he can kind to fill in
to give other guy's days off. He can play outfield,
and he can play second a little bit. And he's

(04:05):
not good anywhere defensively, like really good anywhere, but he
can he can rake against lefty, so that will be
a It's a nice piece. It's a piece. It's not
a big piece, but it's a piece. So yeah, we'll
go ahead and take that. But now it's time where
we get to talk to the one and only g Ragbell.

Speaker 6 (04:24):
With the bell tolls.

Speaker 7 (04:26):
It must be seven o'clock and time for twelfth Man
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Speaker 2 (04:48):
Greg, Good morning, how are you, sir?

Speaker 5 (04:50):
Good morning Mary, Early Christmas to all of you, Christmas
to you as well.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Have you did you make your bed bounced quarter off
this morning?

Speaker 5 (05:00):
I have yes?

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Do you really? Do you really make it? Do you
make it good enough like that?

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Or no? No, not anymore?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
But you still make it?

Speaker 5 (05:09):
But let's throw the sheets back over it. I wouldn't
say it bounce a quarter.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Of that's all right, that's better than what most do.
And I think that's a really good way to start
your day is making your bed. I think that that's
something that a lot of people should do. I had
to do it as a child, and then I stopped
doing it as an adult, and now as an older person,
I'm like, I do that again. Go ahead and throw
the sheep.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
I like to make my husband's stole in it when
I leave.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, I just throw the sheets. Actually, half the time
I don't even do that, but my wife ends up
doing it so my bed is made. But yeah, I
still try to do it just a little bit, a
little bit up. Keep you right. You gotta raise your
kids to take care of their stuff. Anyway, Well, yeah,
you're right. Merry Christmas, Early Christmas. This is our last
show before we get a couple of days off, and
and you don't necessarily get those days off.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
I don't, but.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
I guess that's good for everybody else because everybody's concerned
or turned on excited about the Seahawks. So coming into
this where you get a little bit of a mini buy,
what'd you learn yesterday when they got back to work, Well,
they just went back to meetings.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
They didn't actually practice. And because it's a Sunday game,
they don't have to have an injury report, and they
didn't have any media access for us, so we weren't
out there. So it was a pretty quiet day Seahawks concerned.
The biggest development was the forty nine Ers keep winning
one last night over the Philip Rivers is so that's
status quo in the the NFC West, as great as

(06:37):
the winner of the Rams was for the Seahawks and
how they did it. As Mike McDonald gathered the team
around him in the locker room after the game Thursday night,
he said, we've got more work to do, and he's right.
If they lose Sunday to a Carolina team that's playing
for the NFC West titled NFC South title, excuse me,
and just beat Tampa Bay at home. If Carolina win

(06:59):
was that game, the Seahawks are right back to where
they were before the Rams game, because the Rams hold
the tiebreakers and the forty nine Ers hold the tiebreakers
in a three team tie in the NFC West. It's
the forty nine Ers have made it so that the
Seahawks can't coast, and they weren't going to coast anyway,

(07:19):
most likely under Might McDonald, but they can ill afford
to lose. If the simplest way to put it is
that the Seahawks win these last two games, they are
the number one seed in the NFC, they win the
division for the first time since twenty twenty, they get
to buy and they get two potentially two home playoff
games to the super Bowl. If they lose now, because
the forty nineer keep winning, there's a possibility that they
could fall from the one seed to the sixth seed

(07:41):
in the second wild Card, the next to last seed
in the NFC, and that's what the forty nine Ers,
Rams and Seahawks are jockeying for the last two weeks.
San Francisco gets Chicago on Sunday night, while the Seahawks
will have already played Carolina and the Rams had the
easiest road home anybody. They play Arizona and Atlanta. They're

(08:04):
at Atlanta Monday night and they host the Cardinals six
and nine team and A three and eleven, three and
thirteen teams. So it's suffice to say the Seahawks have
to keep winning to get what they want, which is
a shorter, direct home bound route to the super Bowl
and that San Francisco game. If both teams win this
weekend forty nine Ers in Seahawks that San Francisco Seattle

(08:25):
game in Santa Clara Week eight, team will be for
everything for the number one seed for the NFC West.
It probably will be on Sunday Night Football in NBC
to end the NFL regular season.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Greg I wondered this after the Seahawks Colts game, if
there was any chance that even su you know, subconsciously,
the Hawks were possibly looking past the Colts because they'd
had that Rams game circled on their calendar since the
top first time they'd met up. I have to believe
they really want that first game against the forty nine
ers back if they could take it. Is there any

(08:56):
possibility I would assume not because of everything that's on
the line, But is there any possibility that this team
comes out flat because they're kind of looking past the
Panthers this weekend?

Speaker 5 (09:08):
Well, I could see them starting slowly Ashley, because of
the layoffs and the something od of letdown from what
happened last week and the Christmas holiday, and the fact
they're not going to practice Thursday. They're practicing today, they're
practicing tomorrow. They're not practicing Thursday. They're practicing Friday and
traveling Friday, so it's an odd week in that regard.

(09:28):
It would not surprise me if then fly all the
all the way to Charlotte and play at ten am
Pacific time start and look ragged to begin, and I've
won't surprised. They've done it many times without these factors
and going on, and it will not surprise me if
fans are throwing things at their TV set in the
first half of the game in Carolina. It wouldn't surprise
me if they're trailing or tied or in a six

(09:50):
to six tie like they were with I can't remember
the games anymore. It was six' six against somebody who
going Into, atlanta they excuse, me it was six six at.
Halftime it was zero zero in the second quarter Against.
Minnesota it would not surprise me if the current number
one seed in THE nfc has trouble getting going Against.

(10:10):
Carolina but The panthers have gotten their attention by what
they've done recently and the fact that they beat A
Tampa bay team In charlotte last, weekend The Tampa bay
team that came out here and Beat. Seattle So mike
McDonald is so focused on the process over the. Results
his whole mantra to these guys is let's keep the process.

(10:30):
Straight let's perfect their process so that the results take
care of. Themselves that comes in handy in weeks like.
This he's changed the process a little. Bit he's given
them all the weekend. Off day Had, Friday, saturday And
sunday off before they came back. Yesterday they're going to
Have thursday. Off the process is, changing but in terms
of the actual mechanics of the. Practicing but the focus

(10:51):
on doing themselves right and doing their way right should
come in handy when the game gets going On. Sunday
BUT i bet it's going to be a.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Struggle, yeah, SENSE i mean they are human after. ALL i, mean,
Right Derek hall ends up he appealed that suspension for
stepping on a guy's leg that was, upheld and so
he'll be. Out how big of a deal is? THAT i,
MEAN i know he's mixes, in, RIGHT i mean he's
he mixes it and he plays significant amount of. Time

(11:18):
how big of a loss is? That and who steps
up in his?

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Place, well it's not as big a factor because they
have a guy Named nicki Min. Ory, now and really
you could say If nick if the S r slews
an outside, linebacker a middle, linebacker a, safety a nickel,
corner or even at times a defensive end Pluged nick
Emn orrey in the so of that. Role so they

(11:41):
have such a depth now With woolen playing well of
extra defensive backs that they can and often, do pull
one of their linebackers off the. Field, anyway part of
the Reason Derek college is just one sack this year
is because of. That he's getting fewer pass rush opportunities
because they're using All, Niemon worry And woolen and blitzing
with their spoon and the Front ford has been as

(12:01):
good as it's beIN, SO i hate to say For Derek,
hall but not as big a deal the way The
seahawks are playing defense and how effective they are with
the strength of their team being in the.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Secondary, yeah, okay Well i'm with you on. That and
so that's good news because yesterday had said that Nickimn,
worry even after he bunked his, head he probably could
have came back in had they, needed had they not
went down there and touched down two point conversion and
walked it. Off but that, SAID i, mean the speculation

(12:33):
is That Kobe bryant could miss some time and so
now you can't plug him into both those. PLACES i
don't think he can play will linebacker and strong safety
at the same. Time maybe maybe he's that, Talented BUT i,
mean are we looking at something because of the injuries
slash now suspensions where you might be getting Thin.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
Well, SURE i mean if you are down multiple, starters
everyone feels. That and The seahawks lost To Tampa bay
down four starters and their defense got shredded for thirty eight.
Points so, yeah it has, effect but there. Isn't we'll
know more in the next couple of days About Kobe bryant's.
Knee Rieke woolands seems okay with his knee. Issue he

(13:13):
left the game two at the, end And Neami pritchett
was playing at extra corner sometimes at the end of
the game against The. Rams bryan's a big, deal a bigger,
DEAL i would say Than Derek. Hall Kobe bryant is
a mainstay now in the back of the. Defense he's
a very sure. Tackler he's been around the ball off
and getting more turnovers than he did in his first

(13:33):
couple of. Years McDonald loves. Him he's as signmon. Sound
he held the four down in the back When Julian
love missed about a month and a half or actually
more nine. Games he did what nine of the first
twelve and Tyle katta had to play. Safety that the
rock through all that Was Kobe, bryant and that's a bigger.
Deal and he's an every down tackle against the, run cover,

(13:57):
guy tackler after yard, catch stopping. Those he's a big
piece to what they do in the back, end and
that to me is the biggest of the injury concerns
they have at the.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Moment, GREG i got to ask you a, question The
Pro bowl votes Or Pro Bowl. TEAM i guess this
has come out this morning, already and we've got a
lot of people on the.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Team they've GOT.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Jsn it looks Like Devin witherspoon made, It Sam, Darnold DeMarcus,
Lawrence Leonard, williams and Then Rashid shaheed as. Well does
that just kind of show, that, maybe you, KNOW i
think nationally The seahawks are just getting a little bit
more attention than they were expected to get at the
beginning of this, year and that as quiet as it

(14:42):
kind of has, been it's really now more of a.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
Groundswell, well, yeah, Absolutely and the win the other night's
another example that on national. Television but, sure and they
had a convincing win on national television Against washington on
The East. Coast there were a bunch Of East COAST
nfl writers and personalities that were at that game In
washington and saw first hand what they were. Doing and

(15:07):
there's still A Southeast alaska reputation to The seahawks and
they're so far out here and they're not always on
the big. Stage well they've. Been you, Win you win
twelve of your first fifteen, games and this is what
comes with. It and there are years that the team
isn't twelve and three that a lot of guys that
should make The Pro bowl. Don't for those who don't,
know it's a combination of fan, voting player, voting coaching,

(15:29):
voting and the fan voting is at least one third of.
It and when the team's not doing well and other,
fans teams don't see The seahawks ON tv because they're
not on national, television don't get flexed to, it don't
get primetime. Game that has a cumulative effect of people
not knowing about the guys tough to Ignore Jackson smith

(15:49):
And jigga this. YEAR i would tell you that just
off the list you read, ME i don't know How
Jason myers doesn't make.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
It, WELL i, was, yeah if they haven't put him out,
There SO i don't know if maybe, They BUT i
mean If shaheed's, out he was there on special, teams
SO i would, YEAH i don't.

Speaker 5 (16:04):
Know, Yeah Jason myers is close to having, these competing
for having the most field goals in a season IN nfl.
History he's twenty three of his last twenty four entering
The rams, game with the only miss sixty yards against The.
Rams at the end of the, game as soon as
The seahawks cross, midfield they're starting to get In Jason
myers's makeable field goal. Range he to, me is as

(16:28):
big an asset as anything The seahawks. Have if they
can get three points out of crossing, midfield that's a.
PLUS i, mean that's a big. Asset it changes the
way teams, defend the changes the way the offense calls.
Plays SO i would say he deserves beyond. It but
let's be. Real The Pro bowl was a farce and
there is No Pro bowl. Game and it's just a
bunch of flag. Football and the only reason is players

(16:49):
can we talk about it is because it has contract,
implications and all the players have clauses in their deals
that if you get A Pro, bowl you get more.
Money so that's the big deal. Here and there'll be
a bunch of guys who opt out and don't want
to go down and play flag football for a couple of,
days and then other dudes will get put on, it
And Jason myers might get on it for that and

(17:11):
then he becomes A Pro bowl and gets his. Contracts
in the, end, however Many Pro bowl slots there are
thirty plus four team it ends up being one hundred
guys getting contract bonuses out Of Pro bowl selections because
of people who get put in his alternates and. Whatever
but the recognition in the, LEAGUE i will say, this
the recognition in the league is because of how The

(17:33):
Pro bowl is so just a. Farce, now The All
pro is the designation that gets, everything all the, attention
it gets the most, money contract, time negotiation, time free agency.
Time And i'm talking first Team All. PRO a lot
of people throw around second Team All. Pro there's no
such thing as second Team All. Pro you're either a
first Team All pro you're not An All. Pro and

(17:54):
it's The All pro designation that separates, guys and it's
The All pro designations that lead To hall Of fame
consideration the best of the. Best The Pro bowl has
kind of, been, LIKE i don't, know the participational orange
slices OF nfl football. Lately the actual crux of awards
and elite is The All pro, voting and that'll come

(18:15):
in season after the.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Season at all, Right Gea ashley AND i are going
to do this exercise a little bit. Later we just
kind of confidence level in earning that number one, seed
getting the buy home field. THROUGHOUT i, mean you've already
kind of discussed. It the Idea seahawks Have panthers and Then,
Niners rams have The falcons this, weekend and then The

(18:37):
cardinals probably the easiest path to to And ozero and
the forty nine ers have The bears this, weekend and
then the pivotal game against The hawks to finish it.
UP i, mean how confident would you be if you
were not a writer but just a fan of The
seahawks that they're going to be able to get this
thing done and hold.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
Serve If i'm A seahawks, Fan i'm worried as. Hell
it's about the forty nine ers game. Bucket they've bought
seven of eight to them every time they played the
forty nine, ers and they allowed them a half dozen.
Years they've been absolutely butt kicked on the offensive and defensive.
LINES i, mean the line of scrimmage is they've been
just run. Over if you just sit back and watch

(19:16):
the line of scrimmage And seahawk forty nine, ers including
the opener this, season the forty nine ers have absolutely
had their. Way that has. Changed And i've said this
a thousand. Times the reason they Hired mike McDonald is
to beat The rams and the forty nine. Ers they
finally beat The rams after losing to them last. Month
they haven't beaten the forty nine ers, yet not when it,

(19:37):
counts including in the playoffs a few years ago With
Gino smith as their. Quarterback it's WHAT i wrote this
morning in The News. Tribune they're not. Done as great
as that win, was they are not done because if
they don't beat the forty nine, ers they're a six
seed and it's a tough, road and they can win
all the games on the road and they can beat
the three teams they'll probably have to, face but the

(19:58):
last team they'll have to, beat the g The Super
bowl will be on the road At San francisco Or Los.
Angeles most. Likely THE Nfc west winner is most likely
going to be the number one. Seed so The seahawks
are going to play these guys. Again they're going to
play The rams again most likely if they keep winning
to the. End AS i, said probably the conference title.
Game they have not yet proven to themselves that they

(20:20):
can beat the forty nine. Ers and as many injuries
As San francisco has, had Including Fred warner And Nick
bosa and defense Now nick or Scud brock perty is
back from his, Time Miss christian McCaffrey hasn't, run and
they can't pass the way they have Now christian McCaffrey
suddenly has all kinds of all purpose. Yards that is

(20:41):
a big problem For, seattle and it Is i'd be
worried if not The seahawks man. That for all they've
accomplished thus, far they have to still go Into Santa
clair next week and. Win, now The bears can do
The seahawks a, big big favor if The bears can
pull it off And Levi Jean stadium On Sunday. Night
but until proven, Otherwise, bucky they haven't won the division

(21:03):
yet until they beat both The rams and forty nine
ers and that last latter jobs till they have to.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Do all, Right, well suffice it to say not overly
confident about, that, Then, okay that makes. Sense i'm probably
right there with, you all, Right, Greg, well appreciate, it,
Man appreciate it what you do and showing up for
us and giving us the info you do every single.
Week go out, there have a Good christmas and enjoy your.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Family thank, you. Sir enjoying this kid And Harry christmas
everybody out.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
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(21:50):
the other side of this, break we're gonna get to
dive a little bit deeper into The. Panthers we're gonna
get to talk To Mike. Kay he's a writer out
there for The Charlotte, observer and we're gonna fight find
out exactly what The seahawks have in store coming up this.
Weekend on the other, side here at Kr Sports RADIO
KGr ninety three point, Three kjar is a writer for

(22:11):
The Charlotte observer down obviously covering The Carolina. Panthers first of, All,
mike nice to have you with. Us good morning And Merry.

Speaker 6 (22:21):
Christmas, yeah good, Morning, Mary christmas six for having.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Me, guys you want to just break the tie? Here
was That Huey lewis or? NOT i say that pretty
much every song Is Huey lewis BECAUSE i don't know
who writes. Anything, ashley on the other, hand is very.
Knowledgeable AM i? Right or is she?

Speaker 5 (22:37):
RIGHT i got?

Speaker 6 (22:40):
NOTHING i got, Nothing, okay hit me to write about.

Speaker 5 (22:42):
Football unfortunately that's ALL i.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Do all, Right, well that's fine, There so Now bucky
you can think you're.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
RIGHT i can, YEAH i can stick with me being
right that that's Definitely Huey. Lewis, Anyways, ANYWAYS i will
get onto the stuff the task at hand, Here, mike
The Carolina panthers right now are playing good. Football i'll
obviously have a lot to play. FOR i don't know for.
Sure is this something that you're surprised?

Speaker 1 (23:05):
By?

Speaker 2 (23:05):
It to, me it feels Like Bryce young is coming
into his OWN a lot of people had written him,
off maybe after a couple of subpar years to start his.
Career is this something that you expected to see right?
Now them playing, good meaningful football this late in the.

Speaker 6 (23:18):
Season, WELL i think they're overachieving a little. Bit their
trajectory was always going to be twenty twenty, six with
the year that they felt like they could make a
legitimate playoff. Run BUT i think they've capitalized on big
wins over The packers and The rams and then won
their fair share of division. Games has put them in
position to being contention down the. Road you, know this

(23:41):
team hasn't been to the playoffs since twenty, seventeen they
haven't won of divisions since twenty. Fifteen up until yes
or up Until, sunday they had lost ten or nine
of ten games to The, buccaneers and so this has
kind of been the dragon they've been trying to slay
for quite some, time AND i think there's a lot
of Optimism charlotte right now because of the when they

(24:02):
just got this.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Weekend is there a lot of optimism Around Bryce young
being the right choice for their future.

Speaker 6 (24:08):
QUARTERBACK i think it's more of the right choice for right.
NOW i think they're definitely going to pick up his
fifth year. Option but the thing is that they don't
have to rush to pay. HIM i, mean when you
look at his fifth year, option it's about half of
What Rock purty is making per. Year so if you
told me you can get the production that he is
putting up right now in a year from now at

(24:29):
the rate of half Of Rock, PURTY i would tell
you that makes a really smart business. Sense that, said
he has been very up and down throughout his. Career
his shortcomings have been well documented well, documented but over
the last five games he's put up ten, touchdowns two,
interceptions completing sixty six percent of his passes well over

(24:50):
one thousand. Yards he looks like the guy they drafted
in twenty twenty. Three he just has to keep it,
consistent which has been a largely the main problem for
him over the last three.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Years, mike what is the calling card if you. Will
what is This panthers? TEAM i, mean, yeah you got
a young quarterback that's to some degree growing and and
and showing signs that he can lead the. Squad yet
you have a Regal dwudo has been a good pick.
UP i, mean he's doing his. Thing you Got ted,
McMillan that's you, know he's he's kind of your go to,
guy even though you got a couple other guys that

(25:26):
have stepped up as far as your receiving corps. Goes
and then defensively, ADEQUATE i, mean what is the what around?
Here it's it's In. Seattle it's the. Defense it's back
to the defense kind of leading the. Charge and then the,
offense while maybe not, consistent can be quite explosive at.
TIMES i, mean what is the calling card or the
mo on this Year's panther?

Speaker 6 (25:46):
Squad this team wants us to run of the. Past
they're going to try to run the ball very early
and try to set up Vertical downfiell. Pros on, defense
they're pretty good in. Coverage they're not really going to
get a boatload of. Sacks but if they can stop

(26:06):
the run early and force you to pass a, lot
they will get to the. Quarterback AND i think they're
a team that plays extremely hard to The seahawks former
assistant coach And Dave canal as he has established a
great culture here and guys want to play for him
and play hard till the.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Whistle what do you think? That what do you?

Speaker 4 (26:27):
THINK i Guess seahawks fans or The seahawks themselves will need,
to you, know focus on need to be maybe worried
about as far as playing The panthers Because i've, watched you,
know just looking at each game each, week there's a
lot there's, inconsistencies, right and So I'M i can't quite
figure this team.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Out you and me both.

Speaker 5 (26:48):
My week two week picks have not been.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
Great they're a team that one week will have like
an insane triumph and in the next week have like.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
Massive.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
Disaster if if they go by their recent, pattern the game.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
Against The seahawks will be really.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
Tough i'm interested to see What Devin witherspoon's got For,
tetrooe McMillan And Jalen. Coker you, know JS n is
going to be a tough go For Mike jackson and J. C.
Horn BUT i think He shaheed has a history of
burning this team deep from when he was With New,

(27:26):
orleans and that's going to be a. PROBLEM i. Think
from from the standpoint of The, Seahawks Sam darnold can't
be a gunslinger. Here Mike jackson and J. C horn
have eight interceptions between the two of, them that is
tied for the. Most they're the second most among eb's
in the. League if you put the ball in the

(27:48):
air and in the right, spot J. C horn will
pick off the. Ball Mike jackson has shown a really
good ability to return after making. Interceptions lake And, ransom
their rookie, safety had to end the game last, week
so they're able to produce, turnovers AND i think that's
something you have to always watch out for With Sam
garnold in my experience discovering, him but as well as.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Just his general M, Yeah i'm with you on. THAT i,
mean it does feel like maybe pass rush, wise it's not,
crazy BUT i don't think the numbers always tell the whole.
Truth you can be getting to getting two quarterbacks or
disrupting them and forcing them to throw balls up where they,
shouldn't and if your secondary's picking it, off it's just
as good as having a, sack and So i'm with

(28:32):
you on. THAT i just did notice the inconsistency part of.
IT i, MEAN i was mentioning that, yesterday how a
team that's doing as well as they, are and yet
they got swept By New orleans this. Year that makes you, Think,
wow over. Confident maybe we should be going into this.
Thing and yet on the flip side of, it you've
beaten you, Know Green bay and The, rams and you,
know just a big one Against Tampa. Bay it's. Different

(28:54):
it's hard to tell who it. Is and yet we
will find out Comes. SUNDAY i appreciate you coming, On,
mike AND i want you to have a very Merry.
Christmas all, right, man thanks you. Too. Great all, right
That's Mike kay with The Charlotte observer. Again he covers
The panthers and gives us a little bit of insight
as to what we have to look forward to on
the other side of the. Break i'm gonna find out

(29:15):
What ashley has to look forward to coming up here
in the next couple of. Days At Sports radio ninety
three point THREE. Kgrfm the news not so much Just,
Hueie they're just they just right as coat tails they have.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Forever well typical news, Guys, yeah exactly.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
That all, Right, well welcome back to the. Show we
are nearing the halfway point here and we've talked mostly
football and understandably so it's that time of year and
The seahawks are killing, it sitting at the number one.
Seed i'm gonna take this one just to kind of
bess a little. Bit christmas right around the. Corner i'm
heading up to or down over and down To Tri

(29:49):
cities after the show today to go see the. Family
pretty excited about you. Guys, yeah we're gonna take off.
Today we would leave right after the, show But kate
needs to go choke people.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Out for that's, Right she's got to get aggression out
before she gets in the car with, you.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Right right, Percent which is. Good it's good for all
of our. Health. Safer, yeah it's definitely. Safer uh, Yeah
so we're gonna we'll be heading out probably one or,
so heading out and heading over the past. Pass seems
to be fairly clear from What i'm. Reading i'm sure
that we snow on the side of the roads because
they got kind of dumped on earlier this.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
Week but they got dumped on, YESTERDAY i, think, yeah
IT'S i think it and.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Then but it was rained some of the, time and who,
Knows i'm not all that worried about. It and YET
i a week or so, AGO i was getting a
little bit concerned whether or not we were gonna be
able to get. Over but it seems no problem getting
over and probably no problem getting. Back So i'm excited
to go over and see some. Family what do you
got to play in here for the next couple of
days and.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
We are just going to hang out at our.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
House Our christmas plans changed a bit this year old
in the last couple of, years and so we're gonna
Do Christmas eve with just Five, Iron palmer The, great my,
mom and, myself, okay and Then Christmas day we always
do it at my parents' house or my mom's house,
now and so we'll be over. There Mark's Five iron's
parents will be there with his sister and her boyfriend

(31:09):
and their, son our, nephew who's just the. Cutest so
big family get together On Christmas day and we lounge
in pj's and have brunch and take forever opening presents
and just relax watch.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Sports, well good for, you, guys taking forever and open.
Presence it is. Nice i'm the Older i'm, getting the
more MATURE i am That i'm okay with it last
in a, while, Right, yeah but, boy it wasn't that
long ago THAT i was, like let's, go let's. Go
LIKE i would get irritated with the kids because we
always go youngest, oldest and when my family gets, together

(31:40):
it's there's like thirty of. US i mean it's a.
Lot that is a, lot and so it's like you
go youngest kid and then they just dilly dally around
and kids don't open presents LIKE i MEAN i used.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
TO i was.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
VIOLENT i Mean i'm ripping the. Paper. Yeah my niece's
nephews are, like undo the tape and, unfold undo another
piece of just get in that.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Time my mom doesn't. That she saves all the wrapping.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Paper, yeah Well i'm getting to that. Mode. Now we
just use the. Bags, yeah they have just bat you
just put the bag in and close. It we do
half and. Half, yeah we got to keep it. FESTIVE
i wrapped one present OR i helped bear and wrap
a present For, grace just BECAUSE i wanted to teach
him how to wrap a. Present, yeah and that's. It, well,
uh it was.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
WRAPPED i still have to wrap all of our. Presents
you are so far, Behind i'm so far.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
BEHIND i Just i'm having a hard time getting into
THE i shouldn't Say i'm not in The christmas.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Spirit it's just it's weird to me that it's Actually.
Christmas it did kind of creep. Up, yeah And i'm, like,
oh how are we here? ALREADY i have Stuff i've
got to get.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
DONE i guess maybe that's part of the reason that
it's somewhat okay for you And chuck to prematurely get
Into christmas mode is because it takes you a while
to get it done.

Speaker 4 (32:48):
Right and, see that's the problem IS i started late
this year and now everything is thrown.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Off.

Speaker 5 (32:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
SEE I i typically was one that around the twentieth
or twenty first is WHEN i would start My christmas
shopping okay and still get it done Before Christmas eve every.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Year yeah, no there was a lot of people Doing
christmas shopping At.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
Alderwood we went to spaghetti factory for our the kids
little like a couple of our family friends their kids
for all of us to get. Together so three moms
and then the, kiddos and it was, like it's like
a less than a mile to go From target to
old to spaghetti.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Factory that took me twenty five minutes.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Yesterday oh, WOW i wanted to murder a lot of,
people BUT i actually maintained by patients very.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
Well palmer The great was very angry with.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
Everyone, really we almost got hit by like three different
cars that just decided they were in patient and gonna
go wherever they.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
Wanted huh, yeah never making that mistake.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Again, YEAH i guess that's part of The it used
to be that the online shopping just wasn't a thing,
right and so you had to go brave the crowds
to get to get to the presence that you needed
to get for your. Family and yet now like now
that WITH i bought everything, online every gift THAT i
didn't have to go out and see, anyone and it was.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
Wonderful we did get a text on the text line
of someone letting us know that song was not Actually Huey.
LEWIS i had to inform, them, actually it's an ongoing show.
Joke we know it's Not Huey. Lewis OH i imagine it.
IS i know it's Not Huey. Lewis bucky thinks everybody
Is Huey.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Lewis whoever you, are thanks for your, attempt but keep
it to. Yourself, okay you're.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Trying to help Let bucky live in His Huey lewis.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Working It's Huey. Lewis, Okay Huey. Lewis and if somebody
else put their name on, it they stole. It somebody
else that wrote. It somebody else thinks they wrote, It they.
Didn't hue wrote. It it probably performed it.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Better you might be glad you're getting out of town
tomorrow because you, know they've been trying to figure out
if we're having this wind storm or. Not so then
this MORNING i got like a wind, advisory, which, okay
you get a wind. Advisory we've went in like fifty
five of.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
THEM i just got a high wind watch on my
watch that just came.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Through now they've uped it to a high wind watch,
tomorrow so maybe the latest track of the storm shows
it's coming.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Here, yeah, YEAH i did get one of, THOSE i
think yesterday that was then all of a sudden bumped
up and it's weird like One this same person, said
depending on which model you look, at it could be
winds that are fifteen miles an hour or Sixty.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Yeah, No so What i'm saying, is, yeah they're saying
like the lowest right, now from this morning or, overnight
the lowest wind possibility is twelve miles an hour and
the highest is.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Seventy.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yeah i'm okay with getting that DOWNE i don't typically
worry about. It we do live amongst some very big,
trees AND i normally kind of think, like, well they've
been there for a long, time they felt a lot of,
wind but they didn't necessarily feel a lot of wind
after a flood where it's, saturated and that's where the
word kind of comes in. It So i'll be okay
with being gone for a few. Days the most exciting,

(35:44):
thing real quick is we set it up last. Night
we're going to go to a Movie christmas. Evening, Okay
we're doing. Brunch we're doing open presents with my mom
and the kids will get to see What santa brought,
them and then we're gonna go do brunch at my
Nephew chances And payton's, place and then we're gonna come
back To Tri cities and go to a. Movie go
watch That david. Movie have you seen the previous for?

(36:07):
That so it's about Like david And, goliath but it's
like a cartoon version but kind of like It's i'm
actually really we just set it. Up you had to
like reserve your seats and buy your tickets in. Advance
it's one of those.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Recliners see, NOW i just sat in one of those
for the first.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Time, yeah it's. Pretty and YET i got, done and you,
know my brother and his family are gonna be, there
and mom and dad, obviously and so BUT i just
got off And i'm, LIKE i don't know If i've
ever been excited about going to a movie That's christmas,
evening Although i'm gonna be going right while The broncos
are playing The. Chiefs and yet that's. Fine, YEAH i,
actually for the first time, Ever i'm, like, YEP i

(36:41):
would rather do that than watch that. Game, yeah HOPEFULLY
i can watch it WHEN i get back. Though, okay all,
right well we're gonna get to talk To jeene's. Territory
there's a lot to talk, about especially with The seahawks
game the way that it. Went THE dk. Situation will
drop that on. Him so on the other side of this,
break we're gonna get Our gene's territory type or, time
not our gene sterotor type right. Here Sports radio k

(37:04):
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