December 29, 2025 • 36 mins
We are starting off with GREGG BELL (Tacoma News Tribune) live from Charlotte. The Seahawks offense struggled in the first half yesterday, but things came together in the 2nd half as the team picked up it’s 13th win on the road against the Panthers. Is the offense more concerning or is the defense more impressive? Is Zach Charbonnet wrestling the starting job away from Ken Walker? :30- A lot shook out in week 17, so grab your cold turkey sandwich, we’re checking the board of scores! :45- Coach Bucky is here!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get a sound strick.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning, folks.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Good morning everyone, Good morning, it's some time.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Good morning lass ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentleman.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Hold six one guard from Brighton, Illanois and former high
school basketball stand What in the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Jumped any conclusions?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Not a god.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You've got to lower lower your expectations.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to Pluto.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
I'm getting some bucky jacobs and vibes and former I'll
just openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped X athlete.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Five seven guard and a former college water polo and
national champion.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Has a lot of useless crap up here.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
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Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, good Monday morning too. You welcome into the radio program.
That's right, we are going live. You're on a frost
brewed corselight. Choose Chill Monday. And when I say we
we got the whole band back together. Ashley Ryan is here.
Former Mariner Bucky Jacobson is here. My name is Chuck Powell.
We welcome you four hours coming your way will Monday
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Hugh Mellon coming your way at eight o'clock to talk
some Seahawks football, Mike Holmgern at nine o'clock, and normally
Greg Bell joins us at seven oh five, but we're
gonna jump right to it. We got to get Cinderella
to the ball. He's a he is on a he
is in Carolina getting ready to fly back. And so
Greg Bell is joining us early today because we got
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to make sure we check in with our Seahawks insiders.
So we welcome mister Bell.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
With a bell tolls. It must be seven o'clock and
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Speaker 1 (02:26):
Come on in, Greg, good morning.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, I'm Ricky Henderson. Ricky Henderson is Ricky Henderson for
you today?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh yeah, you are literally leading off the show. So
we expect a home run or a walk? Which one
are you going to give.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Us, Ricky Anderson? It's a home run, walker a strakeout.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
If you walk, just know you've got to steal second
and third in order for you to you know, justify
this thing. Well, it's good to have you with us.
I'm sure that you're getting ready to board the plane.
So let's get in as much conversation as we can
about the Seahawks twenty seven to ten winners over the
Carolina Panthers yesterday to move to thirteen and three on
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the season. Offense at times looked ugly, Greg, but the
defense was just phenomenal. I mean, you just don't see
NFL teams hold opponents to one hundred and thirty nine
total yards of offense. And so where does it start
with you? Is it concern about the offense or just
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how impressed you are with what Mike McDonald did to
the Panthers yesterday defensively?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well, it's the defense, Chuck. This is a super Bowl
caliber defense. The concern, of course, is whether Sam Donald
continuing to give the ball away will subvert the Super
Bowl caliber defense. But we saw with the Rams in
the ten days before when they absolutely had to be
on the defense. Was three consecutive three and out stops
to get the Seahawks back in that game and rallying
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at sixteen points down, Donald able to rally them. And
then yesterday the game began as I thought it was.
I had a feeling the three day layoffs last week,
rare Thursday off for Christmas, the East Coast trip at ten,
and that it was going to be a slog for
them to start out with what it was three three
and a half. I then the defense just takes over.
DeMarcus Lawrence may be the best player on the team
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right now, and he took the game over, ripping the
ball from Hubbard and covering the fumble that set up
the first touchdown that really got the Seahawks bowing. And
then Julian Love on the first third down after that,
just baiting Bryce Young into an interception up the field.
They thought Ted McMillan was wide open and he was
anything but Beca's Love knew where the ball was going
to go. Donald to Barnard. They convert that into a
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second touchdown, a fourth down stop because Mafaam Lawrence got
the sacks. Fourth down stop turns into the third touchdown.
The three touchdowns were directly because of the Seahawks defense.
They can win a Super Bowl with the way their
defense is playing, yes, including Sunday night, so Saturday night
at San Francisco. But I still have big concerns. And
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if I'm a Seahawks fan, I gotta think, can they
really win and get to the Super Bowl with a
quarterback who leads the NFL with twenty turnovers and keeps
giving the ball away? That's the big concern. The running
game is now going Sharbone with his second career one
hundred yard game yesterday, one hundred and seventy plus yards
on the ground. But the defense is where they're winning.
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I mean fifty four yard fifty three yards passing for
Bryce yard. Guys, that's the most completed twenty four plus
pass attempts to the completions of whatever. It was so
early in the morning here in these and only fifty
three yards is that's the fewest yards for that many
pass attempts since nineteen eighty David Woodley remember him? Oh yeah,
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that's the last time a quarterback threw that often, we
got that fewer yards against the defense. They can win
a Super Bowl with their defense.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Well, there's no doubt their defense ge is something else,
and they went out in there and showed it. I mean,
it'll be curious. I'll be curious to see how it
pans out against the Niners. I think, you know, they
just as a team offensively are better than the Panthers.
And yet the Panthers, you know, we're right there fighting
for a spot in the playoffs as well. So when
it comes to Sam Darnold and giving the ball away,
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I mean, he's had some he's had some bad plays obviously,
and yet he's had some bad luck in some too
where you know, in that fumble to some degree was
a hand going forward or not. You know, it's debatable
for sure, but the one down in the end zone,
you're basically taking points off the board.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Well it didn't work out that.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Way because of the turnover and score right bang bang
right after that. But I mean that to me was
one of the bigger ones of you can't make that mistake.
That's part of the reason that I think they shipped
Geno Smith out of here, was turning the ball over
when you're already down there in the red zone. So
how bad was that play in particular?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, that's you're right, there's a field goal in hand
there for the lead. You throw that ball either out
of the end zone or to where only Smiths and
jig But can get it. And the defensive back Mike
Jackson had the position on an overthrow, so if anything,
if he underthrew that, he had a better chance to
have a touchdown. And if you're going to overthrow it,
you got to overthrow it out back to the end zone.
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And that's what he said after the game. I got
to either put it where Smith and Jigwick can get
it or nobody can get it in and stanc complete.
But to play for the field goal, that's particularly going.
I would argue that Donald is lucky. He should have
had two more interceptions in the first half. He should
have had an interception on the first drive of the
game when he he had a sharpon a checkdown and
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he ignored him and he rolled out away from pressure
to the left and threw the ball off a helmet.
How many times have we seen him throw a ball
off a helmet off a defender this year? That's at
least three times a Tampa Bay game, with the interception
being one of them that ended up losing the game
because of it. They lost the opener because Donald gave
the ball away in the red zone with ten seconds
left in a four point game. The defense has made
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it so it hasn't bitten them enough, but it has
bitten them, including against the forty nine ers. I wrote
for the Newstribute this morning or last night. Can they
win this way? And I have been asking this for
weeks and the answer is yes they can. But can
they win this way against the forty nine ers? Can
they win this way in the NFC title game? Can
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they win this game way on the road in the
playoffs if they have to go there? If they lose
on Saturday night in San Francisco. Those are the questions
that McDonald after the game. I asked them about the tournaments.
How concerned are you with Donald's turnovers? And he said, yeah,
it is about the ball, beat and jeopardy. We have
to be better earlier in plays and what he means
by that is past protection, hot reads, the quarterback going
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for the hot reads rather than extending the play, and
sometimes just the defense having a better play call than
Kalle Kubiak and the offense has. But it's got their attention.
It's the one chink in their armor. It's the one
Achilles heel to Seattle right now. Otherwise this is a
bona FID number one seed home Field super Bowl too.
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Except for that.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
One hundred and sixty three yards rushing yesterday, Zach Charbonay
maybe his best game as a Seahawk yet. Man, it
just felt like a day where Ken Walker just wasn't
going where the play was designed. And I know that's
been a hit against him for a long period of time.
I mean, you're getting ready to play the biggest regular
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season game of the year with the number one seed
on the line, and then the playoffs to follow. Is
there a chance Zach Sharbonay is wrestling away the starting
job from Ken Walker here at this crucial point in
the year.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, yesterday he did because they just steed up riding
hot hand. Once Sharbonay took off for twenty nine yards
in the first half, you could see they were going
to go mostly to him, and they did in the
second half. Again, Walker didn't have anywhere to run a
lot of times when he's running away from the design
calls because there's two or three defenders waiting on him
as soon as he gets the ball. He still had
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some remarkable one and two yard runs yesterday. McDonald's saying
all the right things about how Walker's really playing well,
doing everything we ask of him. He's not getting blocking
and opportunities at times. It will be interesting to see
how the carrier split against San Francisco. But guys, I
think last night again showed and the Colts, even with
the Grandpa Philip rivers the week before, this forty nine
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or defense is not the one it even began this year,
and not the one of previous years. No Fred Warner,
no Nick Bosa, no pass rush. They've got holes in
the secondary. War doesn't play for him anymore. Upton Stout
got hurt last night. The Seahawks are going to score.
They just don't give the ball over and I think
they went on Saturday night in Santa Clara. They're gonna
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score whether it's Walker or Charbona is the lead back.
There are holes in that secondary, and I really think
this could be a huge passing night for Kubiak and
Darnold again if he just doesn't get the ball away.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
How about the concern.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I mean, we don't have we kind of a shorter
week with New Year's even New Year's Day coming around,
So I'm already gonna ask you one about the Niner.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I mean, just no doubt.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Oh, they kept him in check, and I mean they
kept the defense, kept the Panthers offense. I mean obviously
just not doing just about anything. And yet there was
a few different times where he was running and getting
some nice little chunks of yards. I mean, now you're
gonna have Christian McCaffrey and Kyle shann ain't coming out there.
So any concern about the offense maybe trying to get
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into a shootout with his team.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh yeah, A lot of concerned with Christian McCaffrey. They
held him down in the first game and that was
with Trent Williams healthy. Williams could barely walk last night
for the forty nine Ers, didn't play a hamstring injury.
The short week doesn't help him in the forty nine
ers offense. Last night after the game, Kyle Shanahan was saying,
pretty much whining about having another short week. Well, it's
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not as short a week as the Seahawks have because
they just got home late last night early this morning.
You say it's a short week, no New Year's even
news day going, Well, it's for something that's true. But
for the Seahawks, they're going to roll right through its
starting today because of the shorter week, and they'll be
practicing on New Year's even New Year's Day. It'll be
interesting now because of the shorter week to see if
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the guys who missed, including the starting left tackle Charles
Cross Kobe Bryant has safety. Although Tyre Coup put really
well yesterday, especially in tackling, can those guys get back
on the shorter week. Crosses injury the hamstring, We've talked
about it not an injury to come back on short time.
This might be another game that Josh Jones starts at
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left tackle, so they can give another week and they
hope too if they win with a buy to give
Charles Cross time off for that hamstring. But to answer
your question, yeah, Christian McCaffrey is always a problem and
always a problem against Seattle in the pass game. He's
got a thousand yards they can eat rushing and receiving
or damn near close. That's a concern for Seattle's defense.
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They got to start McCaffrey's runs early down so that
it's third and longer for Brock Perdy. In the forty
nine ers offense, Perdy and the Niners are going to
go that deep middle of the field like they did
last night against Chicago, like the Rams exploited the Seahawks
with in two games ago. Kyle Shanahan, I think that's
where the game plan is gonna start. You can do
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that if you're running the ball and getting effective shorter
third downs so that the pass us doesn't affect you.
Do Seahawks have a chance at it's longer third downs,
which means stopped McCaffery early.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, far more aesthetically a pleasing of a game last
night that the forty nine Ers played than the ugly
thing that you watched Charlotte yesterday. So I think the
Zigg's gonna have to ugly it up if they're gonna
win this game, and they're very good at that. So
we shall see how big of a play now in
hindsight was the J. C. Horn penalty. I mean, Carolina
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seemed to have all the momentum in the game at
that moment, and so Seahawks end up winning it by
seventeen points. But how big of a play in hindsight
was that face mask penalty on JC Horn.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well, even at the time it was seventeen ten. You're right,
the building was allowed for their own time in the game,
although there was a lot of Seahawks fens there yesterday.
But it was seventeen ten late third quarter on a
third down. Really savvy played by Jackson Smith and Jigba
a veteran play. He made sure he snapped his head
back when the hand got on the face mask by
Horn and then made sure the officials saw the face
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mask as he ran down out of bounds, well short
of the line to gain I think it was thirty
to twenty at the time. I thought that might just
be a five yard face mask, but Smith and jigb
really sold it. I mean like an Italian soccer player
sold it. Went to his knees, just looked like he'd
been shot. The officials decided it was fifteen. Smith and
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Jigba knew in that interm well he was laying on
the ground, rolling around like he was looking for a
red card, that the officials are trying to decide between
five and fifteen a five yard penalty. They don't get
the first down there fifteen automatic first down with the
personal foul. That's what the officials ended up flagging. That
was a Tyler Lockett like cell job by Jackson. I
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don't say I didn't say that that he didn't get
his face mask grab, but he may sure made it
look like it was the worst face mask grab in
the history of the Seahawks franchise. Hey right, that was
the that was Carolina's last chance. Looking back, they never
got closer than that. But credit Smiths and Jigua, who,
by the way, said another NFL mark yesterday. He's got
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seventeen hundred yards. He's the youngest, he's under twenty four still,
and he joins Justin Jefferson as one of only three
players in NFL history to get a seventeen hundred yards
season before his twenty fourth birthday. Man, is he about
to get a buttload of money this offseason. He's going
in the final year of his contract next year. That's
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when the Seahawks always re up him. We're talking perhaps
a two hundred million dollar deal for the NFL's leading receiver.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Well, he needs the two thousand yards receiving this year,
which means nearly three hundred Saturday against the forty nine Ors.
So I think that should be a stated goal. Yeah, yeah, quick,
fifteen seconds on this Rashid Shaheed, any update on the concussion.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
He's in the concussion protocol. This is another bad week
in a short week, six games days between games for
him to come back. That's a loss. That guy could
break games and special teams. I was talking to Jay
Harbo about that last week. Harbo said, he makes shit,
makes a lot of their schemes look great. Plus he's
taken defenses off of Smiths and Jigbit with the way
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he can mum in the middle of the field. That's
a big loss of the Yuks and it doesn't look
good on the six day rest of shah he can
come back from a concussion.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
All right, Well, it's gonna be a fun week a preview,
no question about it. This is what it's all about.
Save travels on your way back from Charlotte. And thank
you very much for taking time this morning to make
this work.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Thanks for flexing.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Talk to you all week.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Greg Bell's flexing flexing on you out there with all
his great information and insight. Seahawks winning over the Carolina
Panthers twenty seven to ten. Our segment with Greg Bell
normally conducted at seven oh five, but he had to
come on early today to make his flight in Charlotte
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in a little different way than we normally are on
a Monday. Let's find out what is on tap for
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the rest of the show. What's on TEP, what's on top?
That's Monday? What do you think is on tab? It's
Monday morning, Quarterback Day. Hu Millan will be with us
at eight o'clock, Mike Homgern'll be with us at nine o'clock,
and instead of Greg, we'll get to sink our teeth
into this twenty seven to ten Seahawks winner with the
Carolina Panthers at seven oh five this morning, and then
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we won't go too far away from beginning the preview
of Seahawks forty nine Ers because that's what is on deck.
So they have set the schedule. This might be I
don't know, if you're early morning people, you know you're
up at six o'clock listening to the radio program and all.
You might not have seen this, but you're a Seahawks fan,
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so you probably did. Seahawks will be playing the forty
nine ers this week Saturday at five o'clock. So they
flexed the entire last weekend of the regular season in
the National Football League, and they always flex it to
highlight those games that have everything on the line. So
the Sunday night game is going to be Baltimore at Pittsburgh.
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Winner takes the division gets in the playoffs, the losers
completely out. Won't be the same situation obviously when we
take on the forty nine ers, but there's enough at
play here. It's a great enough of a rivalry that
they they do want to showcase it. And so Saturday night,
the Seahawks and the forty nine ers will play at
five o'clock and the division just playing simple the division
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championship and the number one seeds on the line, who
ever wins that game gets the number one seed.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Yeah, I mean it's a playoff game, but it's not
the one and done type of playoff game, and it's
it's a big one you get not just to win
the division, more so to get that number one seed.
I think both of them are going to be going
out there fighting hard to figure out who can come
out on top of this thing. It's crazy to think
that the Rams at this point don't have a chance
at the number one seed, and yet the Niners still do.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, exactly, And the Rams will be playing tonight Monday
Night Football. I mean, they can still finish ahead of
the forty nine Ers and the divisional standings, but as
the way the tiebreaker goes, it's a head to head
swarm and if the forty nine Ers were to win Saturday,
that means that they would have the better head to
head record against the three teams if they ended up
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with the same record in the NFC West, And so
the forty nine win the division, win the number one seed,
so the Rams have no shot at it at this stage.
So that's how that cookie has crumbled Carolina. Now with
the loss of the Seahawks, they still have a shot
at getting into the playoffs. They got a couple of
ways of getting in. We'll go over both of them
a little bit later on, but the cleanest way is
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just to beat Tampa Bay Saturday, so the NFL will
showcase that game as well at one thirty on Saturday afternoon.
Both of those games will be on ABC. All right,
College football playoff that resumes on Wednesday at four point
thirty with Miami versus Ohio State, and then three games
will be played Thursday on New Year's Day. Kraken have
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now won four straight. They defeated the Philadelphia Flyers last
night four to one. They'll try to make it five
in a row tonight against Vancouver and that game will
start at seven o'clock at Climate Pledge Arena. And the
stove was quiet over the weekend, but the Mariners are
still being discussed as a team that is very interested
in making moves to add a bat before the offseason
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comes to a close, so certainly worth monitoring. All Right,
we'll get a chance to dive into all of these
stories at great length today, both with our experts and
amongst ourselves coming up on the show. But as we
typically provide on a Monday morning at six point thirty.
It's time for cold turkey sandwich, A board of scores,
A look around the National Football League. Next on kJ R,
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perty a lot up at the shotgun.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
McCaffrey was right to receiver, stack right, two tight ends left.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Bertie's gonna walk toward a lot of scriptage.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Is gonna change the play, play clock down to eight.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Party gets the snap, Party's gonna hand it off to caprio.
Perty keeps it running around the left and he's into
the head zone. Party does it again, his second rushing
touched out of the game. Have of forty dollars or back?
Get front, Ryan Raankey on the call Westwood one and Ashley,
you really do sound sound great? You don't sound great? No,
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oh no, not your day to go on a concert tour.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
No tell you that.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I do feel like I hear myself in stereo, which
oh oh, not sick. It's all of my sinuses, my ears,
so it's all on your head. It's all in my head,
in my head, in my it's a zombie. Good morning.
It is Chuck Buck and Ashley with you. We haven't
had much time to catch up because Greg Bell joined
us right off the that rude at six o'clock, and
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so we'll get our chance to do that in the
seven o'clock hour, and then we hand things over to
our experts from eight to ten. A lot of Seahawks
football to discuss today. We'll get to all of it,
but there's a lot of football in general to discuss.
So it's time now for cold turkey sandwich, a board
of scores right here on your favorite radio show, Chuck
and Buck in the mornings. And so we'll start with
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San Francisco forty two to thirty eight winners over the
Chicago Bears last night. High scoring affair ass predicted for
a second week in a row, Rock purty five touchdowns
that he was responsible for, this time two rushing, three throwing.
After a pick six to start the game, he was
nearly flawless the rest of the way and ends up
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outdueling Caleb Williams in a highly entertaining game forty two
to thirty eight. It just didn't go the way that
we wanted it to go here in the Pacific Northwest
is it puts everything on the line Saturday.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Yeah, I mean, I guess probably everybody would have wanted
them to be able to figure out a way to
sinse that thing up, right, because if they would have lost,
and but the Rams would have lost tonight against the Falcons,
maybe a bit unlikely that then they would have known
that they were the number one seed, and you get
to kind of rest instead of going in there with
all the marbles or a lot of the marbles on
the line.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
But what a back and forth battle.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I mean, yeah, Caleb Williams is looking like, you know,
a legitimate dude that should have been taking number one overall,
and the defenses both looked a bit poorous, But then again,
it was still a fun back and forth, and we
were tired at like seven thirteen, twenty one and twenty
eight and thirty five. It was just tit for tat.
They were going after each other the whole way until
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the end.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Some smart ass listener tweeted to me and said, Chuck
Party looks a lot more like Chicken than Tofu tonight.
Oh yeah, yeah, you're probably, Yeah, you're right. He looks
pretty good right now.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, I've compared him to Tofu because he's planned, because
he absorbs all the flavors around him, and as good
as the flavors are around him. Then that's how good
party is. But he's he's playing really well right now.
And I think Guyle Shannan gets a lot of credit
for the success that they've had. I think i'd name
him Coach of the Year. There's a lot of competition
out there. But man, we'll get into it a little
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bit later on when we talk about this matchup. On
Saturday at seven thirty, Elsewhere across the National Football League,
the Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills played also a wildly
entertaining game, even though it was ugly Mucket up weather
game only twenty five points combined. But I enjoyed this
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just as much as I did from an entertainment standpoint
last night's forty nine Ers Bears games. That's to me,
the best part about sports is that seven to six
in a baseball game can be thrilling and soaking one
to nothing, and I think there are a lot of
people out there that if they don't score a lot
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of points, it was a terrible game. I thought that
was a fantastic game between the Bills and the Eagles yesterday.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Yeah, same here, And they're both the playoff teams and
so it's they both I think are probably the two
teams out of this weird year where you have teams,
you know, the Bears are up there, and you know,
the Broncos and the Jacksonville Jaguars with some teams that
you don't typically see in the playoff race and they're
up towards the top. It's a couple of teams like that,
the Eagles and the Bills where you're like, well they
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got championship pedigree or they it feels like they could,
and they went head to head, they went blow for blow.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I don't know for sure.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
It felt to me like the Bills we had more
points than zero going into the fourth quarter, like Josh
Allen was playing well, and yet they just could not
find a way to put any points on the board
until the end.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And then it was just too little, too lot.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I've never seen a game more. You know, they talk
about a game of inches. It was just that was
the whole game. It's like it needed an inch more
and otherwise you have a successful drive, but Buffalo ends
up missing an extra point. It got blocked by Jalen Carter,
who was phenomenal yesterday, and and then it forced them
into we go for a tie at the end of
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regulation or do we go for the win? They decided
to go for two and the win. I think it
was the right call. It just didn't work out, and
for of all the reasons, because Josh Allen hooked a
wide open throw to a wide open receiver. I mean,
he just doesn't do that. And yet the Buffalo Bills
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can't execute there. Josh Allen can't execute there. And so
both teams now eleven and five on the year, and
the Bills right now look like they're going to be
the seventh seed in the playoffs. Who wants to be
the two seed in the playoffs and have to them
in the first round? Answer no? Yeah? And who might
get that number two seed still could be Jacksonville twenty
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three seventeen winners over the Indianapolis Colts. Jacksonville still needs
a win or a Houston loss next week for the division.
They still have a shot at the number one seed
from what I understand overall. Meanwhile, the Indianapolis Colts ended
up going zero to three with Philip Rivers at quarterback.
They lost seven of their last eight games, and they're
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a five hundred football team right now at eight and eight.
The New England Patriots could end up being the one
seed in the AFC. They defeated the Jets soundly yesterday
forty two to ten to improve to thirteen and three
on the year. They'll take on the Miami Dolphins, and
a one seed certainly possible. The Patriots beat the Dolphins,
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which they should, and then they would need a loss
by Denver, and Denver is going to have to face
the Los Angeles Chargers. That could have been a far
more interesting game had the Chargers taking care of business
against the Texans on Saturday, but they lost that game,
so that could have been for the division title and
instead it's just gonna be the Chargers really just for
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playoff positioning they're in, and the Denver Bronco is gonna
have a lot more at stake, So it'll be interesting
to see if the Chargers are full assault. I mean
pretty much every Chargers game is how much can we
just sit back and watch our quarterback have the hell
be beaten out of them? That's the Chargers game plan
every week.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, and they're eleven and five doing that.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah. It's weird.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
It seems like there's a bunch of teams and Chargers
one of them where it's like, man, after a certain week,
you feel like that is a scary team, and then
you watch them another week and you're like, it doesn't
look that scary, and yet they're gonna I think they're
gonna come out and bring it. Seems like the way
Harbaugh would do it, like, Hey, we're not going into
this where we're gonna coast or rest a bunch of guys.
Even though the only thing that's kind of on the
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line is the seeding part of it. I'm sure that
the division rival against the Broncos, they'd like to knock
them out of the number one seed.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Well, I think there's a huge value to be in
the five seed two because you get to face that
Pittsburgh Baltimore winner as opposed to a good team. So
maybe you know, with that at stake, I would imagine,
I think you're right full assault and it could end
up benefiting Jacksonville or New England. We shall see. So
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twenty to sixteen, Houston won over the Chargers. That's going
all the way back to Saturday. Houston is in the
playoffs as well and still have a shot at winning
their division. Baltimore won over Green Bay forty one to
twenty four Saturday night, Derek Henry had two hundred and
sixteen yards and four touchdowns with Lamar Jackson on the
sideline with an injury, so they needed they had to
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have Pittsburgh lose to Cleveland yesterday to have a shot
at making the playoffs, and that's exactly what happened. Will
dk Metcalf end up being blamed in Pittsburgh if the
Steer blow their last two games without him because he
had to confront a fan on the sidelines, Well, that's
what they're confronting right now. Cleveland beat the Steelers thirteen
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to six as Pittsburgh couldn't get any offense going. Miles
Garrett could not get his sack to set the single
season record for the Cleveland Browns. But the Browns do
win the game, should or Sanders look pretty good. Thirteen
to six the final score. So it now comes down
to Pittsburgh and Baltimore in Pittsburgh Sunday night for the
division and a spot in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
I thought that would be the game that they would
have flexed the Seahawks into it, and they still flex
the Seahawks Niners game into basically primetime. I mean there'll
be nothing else to watch on Saturday night other than
that game. But you know, then they went with the
Lamar Jackson if he's back, and Derrick Henry and who
knows if it's Aaron Rodgers last game. It's there's a few.
There's three different games this weekend that are going to
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be for you know, basically our essentially playoff games.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, well this one is the winners in, losers out. Oh,
I'm not surprised they went with it. Plus, those guys
are just such Every Pittsburgh Baltimore game feels like it's
a classic. So not surprised by that. But that would
be the Sunday night matchup. To wrap up the regular season.
Cincinnati won over Arizona thirty seven to fourteen. Remember when
we thought that Cardinals could be pretty good this year?
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Oh those were the days. Yeah, those were the days.
They're three and thirteen.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Meanwhile, the Joe Burrow tees again injured all year long,
fall out of the playoffs yet look really phenomenal right
at the end of the season, and you wonder how
much damage they could.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Have done had they not been bad early on in
the season that or had Joe Burrow stayed healthy, so
the Joe Burrow Tese we got to experience it again
this year. They destroyed the Cardinals. They are six and
ten on the season. Speaking of six and ten, the
New Orleans Saints are six and ten. They've won four
straight games in an absolute clinic on how to destroy
your draft position. So New Orleans wins thirty four to
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twenty six over the Tennessee Titans, who one point led
thirteen to nothing in that game. Tampa Bay's lost seven
of their last eight games. They lost to Miami twenty
to seventeen, and yet still have a shot at making
the playoffs and winning their division, where they win over
Carolina on Saturday. And finally, the New York Giants thirty
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four to ten winners over the Las Vegas Raiders and
the Number one Pick Bowl. The Raiders denying that they
tanked the game yesterday, but their best player disagrees, as
Max Crosby showed videos of himself playing basketball at his
house and just how capable he was on a knee.
They said he was too injured to play in the
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game in and so the Raiders now in clear control
of the last or excuse me, the worst record in
the National Football League and they have an eighty I
think eighty percent chance of getting the number one pick
in the NFL track. And so there you go. They'll
wrap up the week with Atlanta at the Rams tonight
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on Monday Night football, and you can hear that action
right here on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM
at five point fifteen on a frost brewed Corse Light
shoes Chill Monday. We'll check in with Coach Bucky next
on kjar kind of chew on this twenty seven ten
Seahawks went over the Carolina Panthers. But before that, Coach
Bucky pays us a visit. How was your holiday, Coach Bucky?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
It was wonderful. It was really it was really nice.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Got to go down to Troy Cities and see the fam, mom, dad,
and most of my brothers and sisters or brother and
sisters and a ton of nieces and nephew.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I mean, it's a big, big get together.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
It's it's quite the it's quite the fiasco, to be honest,
and yet it's it was fun.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
The kids got had a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
I think they're all getting to the age now, at
least my kids are getting the age now where they
enjoy the playing with cousins, right. I mean when they
were really little, they don't even know their cousins were
trying out loud. Now it's the I can't wait to
see Matthew, I can't wait to do this, and and
so it was fun they did that. We went to
a little bounce house a day after Christmas, like trampoline
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arcade place, and you have Bear was doing front flips
and all kinds of other stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I'm just like, don't land on your head, don't land
on your head. And he didn't.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Sweating like crazy out there. Gracie's running around just not
a care in the world, just as bigger kids running
by on the trampoline. I'm like, nobody better run my
daughter over out there. Nobody did, so it was all good, no, no,
no harm. I almost stepped up on one of those
They have a balance beam with like a phone pit
below it.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
You have a like pugil stick thing. I almost stepped
up there.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Yeah, you could have pretended you were Storm. That's why
I would have picked Storm. Yeah, that's that why I
would have looked a lot like Storm up there. I
decided not to go up there and beat up on children. Instead,
I just stood on the.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Sidelin had because I would have been very entert It.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Would have been funny, except I was just worried that
once I found the phone pit, I may not have
been able to get out. So that was where I
didn't want that to be fair?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Right, right?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
You don't want that haunting you for the rest of
your dreams.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Yeah, the fat guy that gets stuck in kids phone bit,
i'd go viral.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
All right, Well, let me ask you, coach Bucky forty
nine ers Seahawks, what's your gut right now?
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Well, boy, I mean, based on what I saw, I
have a feeling that Niners are the Niners are better
than what the Panthers are offensively, and so I don't
see that the Seahawks are going to go out there
and be able to be as dominant statistically. But I
would say that if you had to say, where do
you feel like there's an advantage, I think it's Seahawks'
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defense is the biggest advantage in this game, because the
Seahawks offense has shown signs of being potent and has
shown signs of being able to put up some serious points.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Quicken in a.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Hurry and that Niners defense, I mean they can get
after the passer. That's what gets Sam Darnold in trouble,
whether it's forcing fumbles or whether it's forcing him into
making a decision maybe not the best decision that he
could make, and turning the ball over. So I mean,
right now, my gut would probably say Seahawks end up
winning this thing and getting the number one seed.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Oh wow, look at that. I like that current Bucky. Yeah,
nice job, coach Bucket, good evaluation. Well, we'll talk more
about it coming up at seven point thirty. But as
I mentioned, we haven't even had a chance to talk
about yesterday's win because Greg hogged the spotlight at six
o'clock this morning. So we'll get into that plus your
headlines next. We're just getting going here on a Monday
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live radio Chucking buck in the Morning, Sports Radio ninety
three point three KJRFM
Let's get a sound strick.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning, folks.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Good morning everyone, Good morning, it's some time.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Good morning lass ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentleman.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Hold six one guard from Brighton, Illanois and former high
school basketball stand What in the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Jumped any conclusions?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Not a god.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You've got to lower lower your expectations.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to Pluto.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
I'm getting some bucky jacobs and vibes and former I'll
just openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped X athlete.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Five seven guard and a former college water polo and
national champion.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Has a lot of useless crap up here.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
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Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, good Monday morning too. You welcome into the radio program.
That's right, we are going live. You're on a frost
brewed corselight. Choose Chill Monday. And when I say we
we got the whole band back together. Ashley Ryan is here.
Former Mariner Bucky Jacobson is here. My name is Chuck Powell.
We welcome you four hours coming your way will Monday
morning Quarterback. It from now until ten o'clock in the morning.
(01:38):
Hugh Mellon coming your way at eight o'clock to talk
some Seahawks football, Mike Holmgern at nine o'clock, and normally
Greg Bell joins us at seven oh five, but we're
gonna jump right to it. We got to get Cinderella
to the ball. He's a he is on a he
is in Carolina getting ready to fly back. And so
Greg Bell is joining us early today because we got
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to make sure we check in with our Seahawks insiders.
So we welcome mister Bell.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
With a bell tolls. It must be seven o'clock and
time for twelfth Man News with Greg Bell. Brought to
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here's Greg Bell with Chuck and Buck.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Come on in, Greg, good morning.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, I'm Ricky Henderson. Ricky Henderson is Ricky Henderson for
you today?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh yeah, you are literally leading off the show. So
we expect a home run or a walk? Which one
are you going to give.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Us, Ricky Anderson? It's a home run, walker a strakeout.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
If you walk, just know you've got to steal second
and third in order for you to you know, justify
this thing. Well, it's good to have you with us.
I'm sure that you're getting ready to board the plane.
So let's get in as much conversation as we can
about the Seahawks twenty seven to ten winners over the
Carolina Panthers yesterday to move to thirteen and three on
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the season. Offense at times looked ugly, Greg, but the
defense was just phenomenal. I mean, you just don't see
NFL teams hold opponents to one hundred and thirty nine
total yards of offense. And so where does it start
with you? Is it concern about the offense or just
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how impressed you are with what Mike McDonald did to
the Panthers yesterday defensively?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well, it's the defense, Chuck. This is a super Bowl
caliber defense. The concern, of course, is whether Sam Donald
continuing to give the ball away will subvert the Super
Bowl caliber defense. But we saw with the Rams in
the ten days before when they absolutely had to be
on the defense. Was three consecutive three and out stops
to get the Seahawks back in that game and rallying
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at sixteen points down, Donald able to rally them. And
then yesterday the game began as I thought it was.
I had a feeling the three day layoffs last week,
rare Thursday off for Christmas, the East Coast trip at ten,
and that it was going to be a slog for
them to start out with what it was three three
and a half. I then the defense just takes over.
DeMarcus Lawrence may be the best player on the team
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right now, and he took the game over, ripping the
ball from Hubbard and covering the fumble that set up
the first touchdown that really got the Seahawks bowing. And
then Julian Love on the first third down after that,
just baiting Bryce Young into an interception up the field.
They thought Ted McMillan was wide open and he was
anything but Beca's Love knew where the ball was going
to go. Donald to Barnard. They convert that into a
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second touchdown, a fourth down stop because Mafaam Lawrence got
the sacks. Fourth down stop turns into the third touchdown.
The three touchdowns were directly because of the Seahawks defense.
They can win a Super Bowl with the way their
defense is playing, yes, including Sunday night, so Saturday night
at San Francisco. But I still have big concerns. And
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if I'm a Seahawks fan, I gotta think, can they
really win and get to the Super Bowl with a
quarterback who leads the NFL with twenty turnovers and keeps
giving the ball away? That's the big concern. The running
game is now going Sharbone with his second career one
hundred yard game yesterday, one hundred and seventy plus yards
on the ground. But the defense is where they're winning.
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I mean fifty four yard fifty three yards passing for
Bryce yard. Guys, that's the most completed twenty four plus
pass attempts to the completions of whatever. It was so
early in the morning here in these and only fifty
three yards is that's the fewest yards for that many
pass attempts since nineteen eighty David Woodley remember him? Oh yeah,
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that's the last time a quarterback threw that often, we
got that fewer yards against the defense. They can win
a Super Bowl with their defense.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Well, there's no doubt their defense ge is something else,
and they went out in there and showed it. I mean,
it'll be curious. I'll be curious to see how it
pans out against the Niners. I think, you know, they
just as a team offensively are better than the Panthers.
And yet the Panthers, you know, we're right there fighting
for a spot in the playoffs as well. So when
it comes to Sam Darnold and giving the ball away,
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I mean, he's had some he's had some bad plays obviously,
and yet he's had some bad luck in some too
where you know, in that fumble to some degree was
a hand going forward or not. You know, it's debatable
for sure, but the one down in the end zone,
you're basically taking points off the board.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Well it didn't work out that.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Way because of the turnover and score right bang bang
right after that. But I mean that to me was
one of the bigger ones of you can't make that mistake.
That's part of the reason that I think they shipped
Geno Smith out of here, was turning the ball over
when you're already down there in the red zone. So
how bad was that play in particular?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, that's you're right, there's a field goal in hand
there for the lead. You throw that ball either out
of the end zone or to where only Smiths and
jig But can get it. And the defensive back Mike
Jackson had the position on an overthrow, so if anything,
if he underthrew that, he had a better chance to
have a touchdown. And if you're going to overthrow it,
you got to overthrow it out back to the end zone.
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And that's what he said after the game. I got
to either put it where Smith and Jigwick can get
it or nobody can get it in and stanc complete.
But to play for the field goal, that's particularly going.
I would argue that Donald is lucky. He should have
had two more interceptions in the first half. He should
have had an interception on the first drive of the
game when he he had a sharpon a checkdown and
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he ignored him and he rolled out away from pressure
to the left and threw the ball off a helmet.
How many times have we seen him throw a ball
off a helmet off a defender this year? That's at
least three times a Tampa Bay game, with the interception
being one of them that ended up losing the game
because of it. They lost the opener because Donald gave
the ball away in the red zone with ten seconds
left in a four point game. The defense has made
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it so it hasn't bitten them enough, but it has
bitten them, including against the forty nine ers. I wrote
for the Newstribute this morning or last night. Can they
win this way? And I have been asking this for
weeks and the answer is yes they can. But can
they win this way against the forty nine ers? Can
they win this way in the NFC title game? Can
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they win this game way on the road in the
playoffs if they have to go there? If they lose
on Saturday night in San Francisco. Those are the questions
that McDonald after the game. I asked them about the tournaments.
How concerned are you with Donald's turnovers? And he said, yeah,
it is about the ball, beat and jeopardy. We have
to be better earlier in plays and what he means
by that is past protection, hot reads, the quarterback going
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for the hot reads rather than extending the play, and
sometimes just the defense having a better play call than
Kalle Kubiak and the offense has. But it's got their attention.
It's the one chink in their armor. It's the one
Achilles heel to Seattle right now. Otherwise this is a
bona FID number one seed home Field super Bowl too.
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Except for that.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
One hundred and sixty three yards rushing yesterday, Zach Charbonay
maybe his best game as a Seahawk yet. Man, it
just felt like a day where Ken Walker just wasn't
going where the play was designed. And I know that's
been a hit against him for a long period of time.
I mean, you're getting ready to play the biggest regular
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season game of the year with the number one seed
on the line, and then the playoffs to follow. Is
there a chance Zach Sharbonay is wrestling away the starting
job from Ken Walker here at this crucial point in
the year.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, yesterday he did because they just steed up riding
hot hand. Once Sharbonay took off for twenty nine yards
in the first half, you could see they were going
to go mostly to him, and they did in the
second half. Again, Walker didn't have anywhere to run a
lot of times when he's running away from the design
calls because there's two or three defenders waiting on him
as soon as he gets the ball. He still had
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some remarkable one and two yard runs yesterday. McDonald's saying
all the right things about how Walker's really playing well,
doing everything we ask of him. He's not getting blocking
and opportunities at times. It will be interesting to see
how the carrier split against San Francisco. But guys, I
think last night again showed and the Colts, even with
the Grandpa Philip rivers the week before, this forty nine
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or defense is not the one it even began this year,
and not the one of previous years. No Fred Warner,
no Nick Bosa, no pass rush. They've got holes in
the secondary. War doesn't play for him anymore. Upton Stout
got hurt last night. The Seahawks are going to score.
They just don't give the ball over and I think
they went on Saturday night in Santa Clara. They're gonna
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score whether it's Walker or Charbona is the lead back.
There are holes in that secondary, and I really think
this could be a huge passing night for Kubiak and
Darnold again if he just doesn't get the ball away.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
How about the concern.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I mean, we don't have we kind of a shorter
week with New Year's even New Year's Day coming around,
So I'm already gonna ask you one about the Niner.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I mean, just no doubt.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Oh, they kept him in check, and I mean they
kept the defense, kept the Panthers offense. I mean obviously
just not doing just about anything. And yet there was
a few different times where he was running and getting
some nice little chunks of yards. I mean, now you're
gonna have Christian McCaffrey and Kyle shann ain't coming out there.
So any concern about the offense maybe trying to get
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into a shootout with his team.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh yeah, A lot of concerned with Christian McCaffrey. They
held him down in the first game and that was
with Trent Williams healthy. Williams could barely walk last night
for the forty nine Ers, didn't play a hamstring injury.
The short week doesn't help him in the forty nine
ers offense. Last night after the game, Kyle Shanahan was saying,
pretty much whining about having another short week. Well, it's
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not as short a week as the Seahawks have because
they just got home late last night early this morning.
You say it's a short week, no New Year's even
news day going, Well, it's for something that's true. But
for the Seahawks, they're going to roll right through its
starting today because of the shorter week, and they'll be
practicing on New Year's even New Year's Day. It'll be
interesting now because of the shorter week to see if
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the guys who missed, including the starting left tackle Charles
Cross Kobe Bryant has safety. Although Tyre Coup put really
well yesterday, especially in tackling, can those guys get back
on the shorter week. Crosses injury the hamstring, We've talked
about it not an injury to come back on short time.
This might be another game that Josh Jones starts at
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left tackle, so they can give another week and they
hope too if they win with a buy to give
Charles Cross time off for that hamstring. But to answer
your question, yeah, Christian McCaffrey is always a problem and
always a problem against Seattle in the pass game. He's
got a thousand yards they can eat rushing and receiving
or damn near close. That's a concern for Seattle's defense.
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They got to start McCaffrey's runs early down so that
it's third and longer for Brock Perdy. In the forty
nine ers offense, Perdy and the Niners are going to
go that deep middle of the field like they did
last night against Chicago, like the Rams exploited the Seahawks
with in two games ago. Kyle Shanahan, I think that's
where the game plan is gonna start. You can do
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that if you're running the ball and getting effective shorter
third downs so that the pass us doesn't affect you.
Do Seahawks have a chance at it's longer third downs,
which means stopped McCaffery early.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, far more aesthetically a pleasing of a game last
night that the forty nine Ers played than the ugly
thing that you watched Charlotte yesterday. So I think the
Zigg's gonna have to ugly it up if they're gonna
win this game, and they're very good at that. So
we shall see how big of a play now in
hindsight was the J. C. Horn penalty. I mean, Carolina
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seemed to have all the momentum in the game at
that moment, and so Seahawks end up winning it by
seventeen points. But how big of a play in hindsight
was that face mask penalty on JC Horn.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well, even at the time it was seventeen ten. You're right,
the building was allowed for their own time in the game,
although there was a lot of Seahawks fens there yesterday.
But it was seventeen ten late third quarter on a
third down. Really savvy played by Jackson Smith and Jigba
a veteran play. He made sure he snapped his head
back when the hand got on the face mask by
Horn and then made sure the officials saw the face
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mask as he ran down out of bounds, well short
of the line to gain I think it was thirty
to twenty at the time. I thought that might just
be a five yard face mask, but Smith and jigb
really sold it. I mean like an Italian soccer player
sold it. Went to his knees, just looked like he'd
been shot. The officials decided it was fifteen. Smith and
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Jigba knew in that interm well he was laying on
the ground, rolling around like he was looking for a
red card, that the officials are trying to decide between
five and fifteen a five yard penalty. They don't get
the first down there fifteen automatic first down with the
personal foul. That's what the officials ended up flagging. That
was a Tyler Lockett like cell job by Jackson. I
(15:04):
don't say I didn't say that that he didn't get
his face mask grab, but he may sure made it
look like it was the worst face mask grab in
the history of the Seahawks franchise. Hey right, that was
the that was Carolina's last chance. Looking back, they never
got closer than that. But credit Smiths and Jigua, who,
by the way, said another NFL mark yesterday. He's got
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seventeen hundred yards. He's the youngest, he's under twenty four still,
and he joins Justin Jefferson as one of only three
players in NFL history to get a seventeen hundred yards
season before his twenty fourth birthday. Man, is he about
to get a buttload of money this offseason. He's going
in the final year of his contract next year. That's
(15:46):
when the Seahawks always re up him. We're talking perhaps
a two hundred million dollar deal for the NFL's leading receiver.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Well, he needs the two thousand yards receiving this year,
which means nearly three hundred Saturday against the forty nine Ors.
So I think that should be a stated goal. Yeah, yeah, quick,
fifteen seconds on this Rashid Shaheed, any update on the concussion.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
He's in the concussion protocol. This is another bad week
in a short week, six games days between games for
him to come back. That's a loss. That guy could
break games and special teams. I was talking to Jay
Harbo about that last week. Harbo said, he makes shit,
makes a lot of their schemes look great. Plus he's
taken defenses off of Smiths and Jigbit with the way
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he can mum in the middle of the field. That's
a big loss of the Yuks and it doesn't look
good on the six day rest of shah he can
come back from a concussion.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
All right, Well, it's gonna be a fun week a preview,
no question about it. This is what it's all about.
Save travels on your way back from Charlotte. And thank
you very much for taking time this morning to make
this work.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Thanks for flexing.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Talk to you all week.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Greg Bell's flexing flexing on you out there with all
his great information and insight. Seahawks winning over the Carolina
Panthers twenty seven to ten. Our segment with Greg Bell
normally conducted at seven oh five, but he had to
come on early today to make his flight in Charlotte
to get home. Well, it's brought to you by Coppola
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in a little different way than we normally are on
a Monday. Let's find out what is on tap for
(17:41):
the rest of the show. What's on TEP, what's on top?
That's Monday? What do you think is on tab? It's
Monday morning, Quarterback Day. Hu Millan will be with us
at eight o'clock, Mike Homgern'll be with us at nine o'clock,
and instead of Greg, we'll get to sink our teeth
into this twenty seven to ten Seahawks winner with the
Carolina Panthers at seven oh five this morning, and then
(18:03):
we won't go too far away from beginning the preview
of Seahawks forty nine Ers because that's what is on deck.
So they have set the schedule. This might be I
don't know, if you're early morning people, you know you're
up at six o'clock listening to the radio program and all.
You might not have seen this, but you're a Seahawks fan,
(18:24):
so you probably did. Seahawks will be playing the forty
nine ers this week Saturday at five o'clock. So they
flexed the entire last weekend of the regular season in
the National Football League, and they always flex it to
highlight those games that have everything on the line. So
the Sunday night game is going to be Baltimore at Pittsburgh.
(18:47):
Winner takes the division gets in the playoffs, the losers
completely out. Won't be the same situation obviously when we
take on the forty nine ers, but there's enough at
play here. It's a great enough of a rivalry that
they they do want to showcase it. And so Saturday night,
the Seahawks and the forty nine ers will play at
five o'clock and the division just playing simple the division
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championship and the number one seeds on the line, who
ever wins that game gets the number one seed.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Yeah, I mean it's a playoff game, but it's not
the one and done type of playoff game, and it's
it's a big one you get not just to win
the division, more so to get that number one seed.
I think both of them are going to be going
out there fighting hard to figure out who can come
out on top of this thing. It's crazy to think
that the Rams at this point don't have a chance
at the number one seed, and yet the Niners still do.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, exactly, And the Rams will be playing tonight Monday
Night Football. I mean, they can still finish ahead of
the forty nine Ers and the divisional standings, but as
the way the tiebreaker goes, it's a head to head
swarm and if the forty nine Ers were to win Saturday,
that means that they would have the better head to
head record against the three teams if they ended up
(19:57):
with the same record in the NFC West, And so
the forty nine win the division, win the number one seed,
so the Rams have no shot at it at this stage.
So that's how that cookie has crumbled Carolina. Now with
the loss of the Seahawks, they still have a shot
at getting into the playoffs. They got a couple of
ways of getting in. We'll go over both of them
a little bit later on, but the cleanest way is
(20:19):
just to beat Tampa Bay Saturday, so the NFL will
showcase that game as well at one thirty on Saturday afternoon.
Both of those games will be on ABC. All right,
College football playoff that resumes on Wednesday at four point
thirty with Miami versus Ohio State, and then three games
will be played Thursday on New Year's Day. Kraken have
(20:40):
now won four straight. They defeated the Philadelphia Flyers last
night four to one. They'll try to make it five
in a row tonight against Vancouver and that game will
start at seven o'clock at Climate Pledge Arena. And the
stove was quiet over the weekend, but the Mariners are
still being discussed as a team that is very interested
in making moves to add a bat before the offseason
(21:04):
comes to a close, so certainly worth monitoring. All Right,
we'll get a chance to dive into all of these
stories at great length today, both with our experts and
amongst ourselves coming up on the show. But as we
typically provide on a Monday morning at six point thirty.
It's time for cold turkey sandwich, A board of scores,
A look around the National Football League. Next on kJ R,
(21:29):
perty a lot up at the shotgun.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
McCaffrey was right to receiver, stack right, two tight ends left.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Bertie's gonna walk toward a lot of scriptage.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Is gonna change the play, play clock down to eight.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Party gets the snap, Party's gonna hand it off to caprio.
Perty keeps it running around the left and he's into
the head zone. Party does it again, his second rushing
touched out of the game. Have of forty dollars or back?
Get front, Ryan Raankey on the call Westwood one and Ashley,
you really do sound sound great? You don't sound great? No,
(22:04):
oh no, not your day to go on a concert tour.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
No tell you that.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I do feel like I hear myself in stereo, which
oh oh, not sick. It's all of my sinuses, my ears,
so it's all on your head. It's all in my head,
in my head, in my it's a zombie. Good morning.
It is Chuck Buck and Ashley with you. We haven't
had much time to catch up because Greg Bell joined
us right off the that rude at six o'clock, and
(22:30):
so we'll get our chance to do that in the
seven o'clock hour, and then we hand things over to
our experts from eight to ten. A lot of Seahawks
football to discuss today. We'll get to all of it,
but there's a lot of football in general to discuss.
So it's time now for cold turkey sandwich, a board
of scores right here on your favorite radio show, Chuck
and Buck in the mornings. And so we'll start with
(22:50):
San Francisco forty two to thirty eight winners over the
Chicago Bears last night. High scoring affair ass predicted for
a second week in a row, Rock purty five touchdowns
that he was responsible for, this time two rushing, three throwing.
After a pick six to start the game, he was
nearly flawless the rest of the way and ends up
(23:11):
outdueling Caleb Williams in a highly entertaining game forty two
to thirty eight. It just didn't go the way that
we wanted it to go here in the Pacific Northwest
is it puts everything on the line Saturday.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Yeah, I mean, I guess probably everybody would have wanted
them to be able to figure out a way to
sinse that thing up, right, because if they would have lost,
and but the Rams would have lost tonight against the Falcons,
maybe a bit unlikely that then they would have known
that they were the number one seed, and you get
to kind of rest instead of going in there with
all the marbles or a lot of the marbles on
the line.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
But what a back and forth battle.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I mean, yeah, Caleb Williams is looking like, you know,
a legitimate dude that should have been taking number one overall,
and the defenses both looked a bit poorous, But then again,
it was still a fun back and forth, and we
were tired at like seven thirteen, twenty one and twenty
eight and thirty five. It was just tit for tat.
They were going after each other the whole way until
(24:05):
the end.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Some smart ass listener tweeted to me and said, Chuck
Party looks a lot more like Chicken than Tofu tonight.
Oh yeah, yeah, you're probably, Yeah, you're right. He looks
pretty good right now.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, I've compared him to Tofu because he's planned, because
he absorbs all the flavors around him, and as good
as the flavors are around him. Then that's how good
party is. But he's he's playing really well right now.
And I think Guyle Shannan gets a lot of credit
for the success that they've had. I think i'd name
him Coach of the Year. There's a lot of competition
out there. But man, we'll get into it a little
(24:38):
bit later on when we talk about this matchup. On
Saturday at seven thirty, Elsewhere across the National Football League,
the Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills played also a wildly
entertaining game, even though it was ugly Mucket up weather
game only twenty five points combined. But I enjoyed this
(25:00):
just as much as I did from an entertainment standpoint
last night's forty nine Ers Bears games. That's to me,
the best part about sports is that seven to six
in a baseball game can be thrilling and soaking one
to nothing, and I think there are a lot of
people out there that if they don't score a lot
(25:20):
of points, it was a terrible game. I thought that
was a fantastic game between the Bills and the Eagles yesterday.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Yeah, same here, And they're both the playoff teams and
so it's they both I think are probably the two
teams out of this weird year where you have teams,
you know, the Bears are up there, and you know,
the Broncos and the Jacksonville Jaguars with some teams that
you don't typically see in the playoff race and they're
up towards the top. It's a couple of teams like that,
the Eagles and the Bills where you're like, well they
(25:46):
got championship pedigree or they it feels like they could,
and they went head to head, they went blow for blow.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I don't know for sure.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
It felt to me like the Bills we had more
points than zero going into the fourth quarter, like Josh
Allen was playing well, and yet they just could not
find a way to put any points on the board
until the end.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And then it was just too little, too lot.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I've never seen a game more. You know, they talk
about a game of inches. It was just that was
the whole game. It's like it needed an inch more
and otherwise you have a successful drive, but Buffalo ends
up missing an extra point. It got blocked by Jalen Carter,
who was phenomenal yesterday, and and then it forced them
into we go for a tie at the end of
(26:25):
regulation or do we go for the win? They decided
to go for two and the win. I think it
was the right call. It just didn't work out, and
for of all the reasons, because Josh Allen hooked a
wide open throw to a wide open receiver. I mean,
he just doesn't do that. And yet the Buffalo Bills
(26:46):
can't execute there. Josh Allen can't execute there. And so
both teams now eleven and five on the year, and
the Bills right now look like they're going to be
the seventh seed in the playoffs. Who wants to be
the two seed in the playoffs and have to them
in the first round? Answer no? Yeah? And who might
get that number two seed still could be Jacksonville twenty
(27:08):
three seventeen winners over the Indianapolis Colts. Jacksonville still needs
a win or a Houston loss next week for the division.
They still have a shot at the number one seed
from what I understand overall. Meanwhile, the Indianapolis Colts ended
up going zero to three with Philip Rivers at quarterback.
They lost seven of their last eight games, and they're
(27:29):
a five hundred football team right now at eight and eight.
The New England Patriots could end up being the one
seed in the AFC. They defeated the Jets soundly yesterday
forty two to ten to improve to thirteen and three
on the year. They'll take on the Miami Dolphins, and
a one seed certainly possible. The Patriots beat the Dolphins,
(27:51):
which they should, and then they would need a loss
by Denver, and Denver is going to have to face
the Los Angeles Chargers. That could have been a far
more interesting game had the Chargers taking care of business
against the Texans on Saturday, but they lost that game,
so that could have been for the division title and
instead it's just gonna be the Chargers really just for
(28:13):
playoff positioning they're in, and the Denver Bronco is gonna
have a lot more at stake, So it'll be interesting
to see if the Chargers are full assault. I mean
pretty much every Chargers game is how much can we
just sit back and watch our quarterback have the hell
be beaten out of them? That's the Chargers game plan
every week.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, and they're eleven and five doing that.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah. It's weird.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
It seems like there's a bunch of teams and Chargers
one of them where it's like, man, after a certain week,
you feel like that is a scary team, and then
you watch them another week and you're like, it doesn't
look that scary, and yet they're gonna I think they're
gonna come out and bring it. Seems like the way
Harbaugh would do it, like, Hey, we're not going into
this where we're gonna coast or rest a bunch of guys.
Even though the only thing that's kind of on the
(28:58):
line is the seeding part of it. I'm sure that
the division rival against the Broncos, they'd like to knock
them out of the number one seed.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Well, I think there's a huge value to be in
the five seed two because you get to face that
Pittsburgh Baltimore winner as opposed to a good team. So
maybe you know, with that at stake, I would imagine,
I think you're right full assault and it could end
up benefiting Jacksonville or New England. We shall see. So
(29:26):
twenty to sixteen, Houston won over the Chargers. That's going
all the way back to Saturday. Houston is in the
playoffs as well and still have a shot at winning
their division. Baltimore won over Green Bay forty one to
twenty four Saturday night, Derek Henry had two hundred and
sixteen yards and four touchdowns with Lamar Jackson on the
sideline with an injury, so they needed they had to
(29:48):
have Pittsburgh lose to Cleveland yesterday to have a shot
at making the playoffs, and that's exactly what happened. Will
dk Metcalf end up being blamed in Pittsburgh if the
Steer blow their last two games without him because he
had to confront a fan on the sidelines, Well, that's
what they're confronting right now. Cleveland beat the Steelers thirteen
(30:12):
to six as Pittsburgh couldn't get any offense going. Miles
Garrett could not get his sack to set the single
season record for the Cleveland Browns. But the Browns do
win the game, should or Sanders look pretty good. Thirteen
to six the final score. So it now comes down
to Pittsburgh and Baltimore in Pittsburgh Sunday night for the
division and a spot in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
I thought that would be the game that they would
have flexed the Seahawks into it, and they still flex
the Seahawks Niners game into basically primetime. I mean there'll
be nothing else to watch on Saturday night other than
that game. But you know, then they went with the
Lamar Jackson if he's back, and Derrick Henry and who
knows if it's Aaron Rodgers last game. It's there's a few.
There's three different games this weekend that are going to
(30:53):
be for you know, basically our essentially playoff games.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, well this one is the winners in, losers out. Oh,
I'm not surprised they went with it. Plus, those guys
are just such Every Pittsburgh Baltimore game feels like it's
a classic. So not surprised by that. But that would
be the Sunday night matchup. To wrap up the regular season.
Cincinnati won over Arizona thirty seven to fourteen. Remember when
we thought that Cardinals could be pretty good this year?
(31:18):
Oh those were the days. Yeah, those were the days.
They're three and thirteen.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Meanwhile, the Joe Burrow tees again injured all year long,
fall out of the playoffs yet look really phenomenal right
at the end of the season, and you wonder how
much damage they could.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Have done had they not been bad early on in
the season that or had Joe Burrow stayed healthy, so
the Joe Burrow Tese we got to experience it again
this year. They destroyed the Cardinals. They are six and
ten on the season. Speaking of six and ten, the
New Orleans Saints are six and ten. They've won four
straight games in an absolute clinic on how to destroy
your draft position. So New Orleans wins thirty four to
(31:57):
twenty six over the Tennessee Titans, who one point led
thirteen to nothing in that game. Tampa Bay's lost seven
of their last eight games. They lost to Miami twenty
to seventeen, and yet still have a shot at making
the playoffs and winning their division, where they win over
Carolina on Saturday. And finally, the New York Giants thirty
(32:21):
four to ten winners over the Las Vegas Raiders and
the Number one Pick Bowl. The Raiders denying that they
tanked the game yesterday, but their best player disagrees, as
Max Crosby showed videos of himself playing basketball at his
house and just how capable he was on a knee.
They said he was too injured to play in the
(32:43):
game in and so the Raiders now in clear control
of the last or excuse me, the worst record in
the National Football League and they have an eighty I
think eighty percent chance of getting the number one pick
in the NFL track. And so there you go. They'll
wrap up the week with Atlanta at the Rams tonight
(33:04):
on Monday Night football, and you can hear that action
right here on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM
at five point fifteen on a frost brewed Corse Light
shoes Chill Monday. We'll check in with Coach Bucky next
on kjar kind of chew on this twenty seven ten
Seahawks went over the Carolina Panthers. But before that, Coach
Bucky pays us a visit. How was your holiday, Coach Bucky?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
It was wonderful. It was really it was really nice.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Got to go down to Troy Cities and see the fam, mom, dad,
and most of my brothers and sisters or brother and
sisters and a ton of nieces and nephew.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I mean, it's a big, big get together.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
It's it's quite the it's quite the fiasco, to be honest,
and yet it's it was fun.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
The kids got had a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
I think they're all getting to the age now, at
least my kids are getting the age now where they
enjoy the playing with cousins, right. I mean when they
were really little, they don't even know their cousins were
trying out loud. Now it's the I can't wait to
see Matthew, I can't wait to do this, and and
so it was fun they did that. We went to
a little bounce house a day after Christmas, like trampoline
(34:11):
arcade place, and you have Bear was doing front flips
and all kinds of other stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I'm just like, don't land on your head, don't land
on your head. And he didn't.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Sweating like crazy out there. Gracie's running around just not
a care in the world, just as bigger kids running
by on the trampoline. I'm like, nobody better run my
daughter over out there. Nobody did, so it was all good, no, no,
no harm. I almost stepped up on one of those
They have a balance beam with like a phone pit
below it.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
You have a like pugil stick thing. I almost stepped
up there.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Yeah, you could have pretended you were Storm. That's why
I would have picked Storm. Yeah, that's that why I
would have looked a lot like Storm up there. I
decided not to go up there and beat up on children. Instead,
I just stood on the.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Sidelin had because I would have been very entert It.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Would have been funny, except I was just worried that
once I found the phone pit, I may not have
been able to get out. So that was where I
didn't want that to be fair?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Right, right?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
You don't want that haunting you for the rest of
your dreams.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Yeah, the fat guy that gets stuck in kids phone bit,
i'd go viral.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
All right, Well, let me ask you, coach Bucky forty
nine ers Seahawks, what's your gut right now?
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Well, boy, I mean, based on what I saw, I
have a feeling that Niners are the Niners are better
than what the Panthers are offensively, and so I don't
see that the Seahawks are going to go out there
and be able to be as dominant statistically. But I
would say that if you had to say, where do
you feel like there's an advantage, I think it's Seahawks'
(35:47):
defense is the biggest advantage in this game, because the
Seahawks offense has shown signs of being potent and has
shown signs of being able to put up some serious points.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Quicken in a.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Hurry and that Niners defense, I mean they can get
after the passer. That's what gets Sam Darnold in trouble,
whether it's forcing fumbles or whether it's forcing him into
making a decision maybe not the best decision that he
could make, and turning the ball over. So I mean,
right now, my gut would probably say Seahawks end up
winning this thing and getting the number one seed.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Oh wow, look at that. I like that current Bucky. Yeah,
nice job, coach Bucket, good evaluation. Well, we'll talk more
about it coming up at seven point thirty. But as
I mentioned, we haven't even had a chance to talk
about yesterday's win because Greg hogged the spotlight at six
o'clock this morning. So we'll get into that plus your
headlines next. We're just getting going here on a Monday
(36:38):
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