The Rams lost to the Falcons last night and it did alter the path for the Seahawks as they can now only get the 1 or 5 seed in the NFC, the 6th is off the board, so thank you Atlanta! That means, the playoff path either runs through Seattle or starts in Tampa Bay or Carolina, which seems like a better option that Philly or Chicago! :30- Sam Darnold isn’t playing as well as he did in the first half of the season and that’s the bigger concern for Hugh Millen, not the turnovers. The offense was humming for awhile and the Darnold to JSN connection had everyone talking, but it’s fallen off in the second half of the season. We don’t need Darnold to carry the team to the Super Bowl on his back, but we do need him to play better to get there. :45- It’s our final show of 2025- do we believe in New year’s resolutions?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great folks.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Good morning everyone, morning, it's some time.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning class, lazy and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Ladies and gentlemen, beholding six one guard from Brighton, Illanois
and former high school basketball stand What the hell does
that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Don't jumped any conclusions.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Not a god, You've got to lower lower your expectations.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
Hard to believe he could once send a fastball.
Speaker 6 (00:26):
To Pluto getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes and former I'll
just openly admit I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
A fat, out of shape X athlete.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Five seven guard and a former college water polo national champion.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
There's a lot of useless crap up here.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
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Speaker 4 (00:55):
Are you ready to get Hey, good Tuesday morning till
you welcome into the live radio program that is Chucking
(01:16):
Buck in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Ashley Ryan is.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Here, former Mariner Bucky Jacobson. In my name is Chuck Powell.
We're going to take you through the next four hours
of course, building you up till Saturday's big game, Seahawks
taking on the forty nine Ers. So much at stake,
and the path has changed a little bit for the
Seahawks toward the playoffs, which we'll get into here in
a moment. We've got our normal array of outstanding Tuesday
(01:42):
guests that we've used all football season long that we'll
remind you of with what's on tap here in a
matter of moments. But this is the final show of
twenty twenty five right here. You're experiencing it right here,
right here, real lifetime.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
I don't know, like I thought, it feels like like
maybe Sparkly spark you know, because like when you end
the year, you got like fireworks and things like that,
and everyone wears glitter and it's all, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Like it's only it's only six o two. I mean,
there's way to go.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Okay, there's still time. It was like I just was.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Any surprises, but yeah, Sparkly woke up.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
I went to the bathroom and then there was fireworks
going off. As I went outside, there was a parade
down the road.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, that's awesome. One of those I rode in one
of those duck boats.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
All the way here. I was thrown skittles out to people.
There wasn't many people on the side, but there was
still some.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
People skittles, don't they Yeah, Yeah, for miles around, very
sparkly for me.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
People celebrating the last day of of our show before
this year.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, man, I don't have that experience, but I'm glad
you do.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It is sort of strain. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Maybe this has existed my entire life.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I don't know, but it.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Does feel like the older that I get that though,
And I don't think it's because of my age. I
think that the world's just changing, like this time of
the year, like nothing is happening.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I mean, we have like four people in the office
they say.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yesterday, day of the year is December fifteenth.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, And it feels like to me every day it
gets a little more exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And I don't think that's a bad thing.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I know, you know, everybody says across the globe that
Americans work too hard and we do too many hours
and it's not healthy and everything else. We need a break,
So maybe it's maybe it's I'm not criticizing it I
think maybe it's a good thing, but it just does
sort of feel and I know there's out there listening
that do a lot harder jobs than what we do,
but it feels like there's like ten of us working, yeah,
(03:55):
for like the last two weeks of the year.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So I don't know, and I think that's a good thing.
I think that.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
But it gets more celebrative this time of year every year,
and so's there's no doubt that I've experienced that here
driving around just actually existing here for the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I mean, on a Monday night, I just went out
for my walk.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I went out for a walk on Monday, just around
the neighborhood, around the town, and I'm telling you, there
were people packed in the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
On a Monday night.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, so I probably a little bit of we've been
cooped up with our families all weekend long and I
just want to get out and civilization. Maybe there's some
of that, but it's it's the I don't think anybody's
working right now, and they're just like the celebration is on.
And I think it's great, don't get me wrong, but
it does feel like it gets ramped up a little
(04:47):
more every year.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, well, I mean I think Monday nights it's good.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Good to hear that the people are out and about
and doing their thing and really getting making the most
of the holidays because I mean, yeah, we do hear
like in Europe for example, althoughay they do like four
day work days, right or four day work weeks and
us having a couple like three day ones right, bang bang, Yeah,
(05:13):
I'm going to probably start a petition and see if
we can make that a little bit more of a
solid thing. I mean, I'd even be willing to go Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Wow, that is very noble.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Yeah, I mean I would prefer Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
and then just get Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday off. Would
be the way in which I'm going to propose it.
But it's one of those you know, you shoot for
the moon and you land in the stars type of thing. Yes,
because I think it just makes more sense, more rested,
just everybody. It'll just be better for everyone.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Sure, yeah, no, thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I'm gonna get it done.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
I was wondering too, though, if having New Year's Eve
on a Wednesday has anything to do with like more
people out on a Monday, you know what I mean,
Like they're already kind of in a party mood.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I think it's both hand in hand.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I was just talking to Bucky about this yesterday, and
I guess things are done differently in Oregon or I'm
misremembering the way that they were done in Illinois. But
I remember as a kid, you rooted for Christmas to
fall off in the middle of the week, and then
because I met, New Year's fell in the middle of
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the week, and the reason was that you got like
two and a half weeks off because they didn't mess
around with we're just going to send you to school
for a day or for two days.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Why are we going to do that?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So you got two and a half where if it
fell on like a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, you know,
you'd get a half day on Thursday, and then you'd
go all the way through and then you would end
up with only a week and.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
A half off.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Oh doing it that way, I maybe I'm misremembering it,
but I'm pretty sure that's the way that it was
when I was a kid. You always rooted for the
holidays to Christmas and New Year's to fall in the
middle of the week so that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You got more time off.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
But maybe that's not something that they did here in
the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
This was just two weeks across the board, that's.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
What That's what Bucky said, And maybe I'm not remembering
it the right way.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
I think Illinois just is they're real more. They're a
lot more strict on getting their education.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah. Well, yeah here sledding more important than I think.
People from southern.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Illinois are well known for being high heard. Yeah, thats
what known Cornfield's and academia.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
The connection between US and Oxford.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Oh boy, I mean you basically have just a tunnel
that goes from Illinois all the way to Oxford.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I mean the classmates that I have that went to
Harvard law.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
All right, well, we're underway here on this thirtieth day
of December twenty twenty five. It is our last show,
and so yes, we're glad you're celebrating the holidays. I
hope it hasn't taken away time from us. I'm sure
if you have a day away from work, you're still
telling the wife and kids, I gotta get up at
five point fifty eight to catch you know, Ashley Buck
(08:07):
and Chuck, and so we really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, that's that's you know right here.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That's where that gets right in the old ticker.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
And so we got a lot to break down today,
including last night's Monday night football game, which did kind
of alter things for the Seahawks and their path toward
the Super Bowl. The Atlanta Falcons won over the Los
Angeles Rams last night twenty seven to twenty four. The
Rams did battle back despite Matt Stafford having one of
his worst games of the entire season, an MVP like season.
(08:40):
He was just inaccurate at times in the game, but
the Rams almost came back because the Atlanta Falcons don't
know how to win. And yet the Falcons played extraordinarily
well in the first half. They were far, I mean,
they were just flying all over the field. Bejon Robinsons
showcase game for him. But the Falcons do win it
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final score of twenty seven to twenty four in that contest.
And because of that win, and I think this is
significant news, which is why I'm leading with it here
on a Tuesday morning, our last show of the year.
Is that this guarantees that the Seahawks are going to
be on the one, four and five side of the
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NFC bracket. The Rams can still get the five seed,
but there's no way now that the Seahawks can end
up the sixth seed. There's no way that the Rams
can catch the Seahawks because of their loss to the
Atlanta Falcons last night. And I mean, if anybody's studying
the bracket and anything can happen in the playoffs, obviously
you want the one because the one gives you the
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buy and home field advantage throughout the playoffs, the only
buye and the only team to have home field advantage
throughout the playoffs. But if you want something else, and
they talked about this in the broadcast last night, the
Rams might blow their chance at the five seed and
then you've got to go on the road to Philly, Yeah,
or you've got to go on the road to Chicago. Chicago,
(10:09):
who's playing really well and you don't know what kind
of weather you're going to get in that situation, and
the difference between that and getting to play at Tampa
who's lost seven of their last eight, or Carolina, who
you just saw how kind of.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
An ep that they are.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I mean, that's just a completely different road to the
super Bowl, and you want that road to be as
easy as it can get.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
The road to the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Got easier last night for the Seattle Seahawks because the
Atlanta Falcons took out the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah, you're obviously still wanting that number one. You want
that buy and advance through the first round without even
having to lace up your cleats. But if you can,
if you don't find a way to go on the
road and be the Niners, and yeah, you find yourself
either going to Carolina or Tampa, like you said, definitely
is an easier path than the Chicago Bears are Philadelphia Eagles.
(11:03):
Now on any given day, I mean I think on
any given day, anybody that gets in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Can do something.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
But I would just think the betty you know, folks
that are betting making odds, they would just say, yeah,
you're sitting in the five spot. There's a whole heck
of a lot better than having to travel and play
either Philadelphi, because Philadelphia, you don't know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I don't even know for sure. If you know what
you're gonna get with the Bears.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
They're they're improved, Yeah, but I would just feel like
the floor of both those teams is definitely above the
floor of the Panthers and the Bucks.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Well.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I think the NFC this year, and we talked about this,
I think that was the day you weren't here. There's
not a great team. I think that the Seahawks have
touched greatness. I don't think they've been consistently great this year.
I don't think the forty nine ers have been consistently great.
And now the Rams, who were the closest thing to
being consistently great, have suddenly lost to Carolina in Atlanta
in the last month, So they're certainly not playing their
(11:52):
best football and maybe they've fallen off of there. So
I think that it's a wild Both AFC and NFC
could be all wild postseason this year. And of course
there's the element of anything can happen, and any team
is capable of winning on any given Sunday or Saturday
as it might be in the postseason. But in terms
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of just a path there, I mean, there's no question
that you would rather play at Tampa or at Carolina
in Round number one than you would at Philadelphia, not
knowing the weather, defending world champs, playing great defense, even
though their offense seems inept right now, they're playing as
(12:36):
well as the Seahawks are playing defensively in Philadelphia or
at Chicago again weather element. They've been riding high as
of late. So I mean, sure they could end up
being a walkover for whoever faces them. Maybe they commit
seven turnovers in the first playoff game and hand it
to whoever they face. But in terms of just trying
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to calculate, Ashley, who you would rather meet, who gives
you the best chance of winning and advancing, I mean,
I want to be on the four to five one
side of the bracket in the NFC playoffs, and the
Seahawks locked that up last night.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Absolutely, And I think that's been the biggest issue in
the NFC is in general, the inconsistencies with so many
teams you don't know who you're getting. You look at
the Eagles, though, and I do think I would liken
it to counting out the Chiefs in the playoffs the
last couple of years. Right, Oh, they've been down, they
haven't had a great year. Well, come playoff time, those
teams are primed for that right, So I wouldn't want
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to face anybody like that that has that experience that
just won a Super Bowl, because you never know how
they're going to step up when the postseason comes.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So, watching the game last.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Night and think game, I was talking to five Iron
and I was like, does this change anything for the Seahawks,
And neither of us knew. So the fact that we're
finding that out, I love that that at least it
doesn't seem that big of a deal. But I do
think it is a much bigger deal to at least
know you're avoiding that six seed.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Now, I don't think you want to admit it as
an NFL team, I don't think you ever would admit
that you like your path, yeah, because that's bulletin board material.
But I think there's a reason Joe and Troy were
making such a big deal out of it last night.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
With the Rams.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
They're gonna blow their chance, yeah, to be the five
seed here. I mean, they still had a chance at
the one seed if things crumbled the right way over
the course of the next couple of over the course
of the game last night and then week number eighteen,
but they're gonna blow their chance at the five seed potentially,
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and they still have a shot at the five seed
if they If they win and the Seahawks beat the
forty nine ers, the Rams end up the five seed
and they get to go to Tampa or Carolina. But
the Seattle Seahawks can now finish no lower than the
first big deal, and that to me, I think is
a significant deal. So you either are going to get
a bye and absolutely have the preferred route that everybody wants,
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or you get the second best route, which is five
seed at Tampa at Carolina, and then you would have
to face San Francisco again. If you don't get it,
you'd have to face San Francisco again in the next round.
But that's a pretty familiar opponent who's already beaten you twice.
Under this scenario, that means they have beaten you twice already.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And can you beat a good team three times?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I mean, give me that road all day long over
having to go to possibly Philadelphia, then Chicago, and then
San Francisco, because that's what you're facing if if you
don't end up on the four to five to one
side of the bracket.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, I mean, it's I think you already touched on it.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
The idea of the teams that if you just take
the entirety their entire work that they've had this season,
Carolina and Tampa Bay are the teams that, not just
because how you handled Carolina, I think you'd get a
better version of Carolina possibly in the playoffs than what
you saw. Not that they didn't show up or or
have anything to play for, but you would just imagine
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that probably is about as bad as they're going to play.
Tampa Bay just seems kind of lost. At the same time,
that is a team that is just now kind of
getting some of their players back, and so they're a
little bit more dangerous, but none of them are is.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Dangerous as Philly or Chicago.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
And I think that the Tamas lost seven of eight,
they look atrocious.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Now maybe they can come alive.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
That's some good players. They worry me more than the
Carolina Panthers would. I'm just kind of putting it in
the order of if there's four teams you could possibly
play if you don't end up, if you don't end
up getting that number one seed, and then Chicago and Philly,
Philly is the scariest, and then yet Chicago but both
of them going on the road, playing at their place
with who knows what the weather could be like. That
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is something that all of a sudden, you know, you
just kind of were like. It makes it feel even
more important that you want to get that number one seed.
I mean, not that it wasn't already important to just
get a buye through the first round and get to
rest your players and get as healthy as possible, not
to mention everything through Seattle at that point in time.
That's what everybody wants, obviously, but it does feel like
yesterday the Falcons.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Did you a favor.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
They did your favor at least of letting you know
that if you falter on Saturday against the Niners, you're
going to have what you would feel like is advantage
Seattle going into your first first wild card game.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
And who they really did a favor for was Carolina
because now there's a scenario where Carolina, even with a
loss Saturday, still gets into the playoffs, still wins the division.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Oh yeah, because of Atlanta. That's right.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Because Atlanta, if they went out and believe me, the
schedule makers did not weren't counting on the Falcons winning
last night.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, because they made the schedule.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Win yeah, Monday morning, yeah, probably.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Or no Sunday night, Sunday night.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
They made the schedule for week number eighteen, and so
there was an expectator.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
There's a reason Tampa Bay and Carolina are.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Being featured by themselves one game only, because that's supposed
to be the winner is in in, the loser is out.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Well that's not the case anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
The Atlanta Falcons, with a win next week, end up
with a same record as those two, even with a
Carolina loss on Saturday, and that would give the tiebreaker
to Carolina. So there's a chance that Carolina has nothing
at stake, but they won't know that when they play Saturday.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
You know they.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Would if they lost, then they're rooting for Atlanta on
Sunday to beat the Saints because then they still get
in even with the tamp So Tampa Bay can't celebrate
where Carolina can celebrate on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That makes sense.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So Carolina wins there in, But there is now a
scenario because of the Falcons win last night, where the
Carolina Panthers could lose Saturday and still win the division.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
I'm just glad Seattle is not in that position right
where we hold our own destiny. We're not sitting there
waiting for somebody else to do something else, to find out.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's just in our hands.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
It's nice, all right, Let's find out what's on tap
for this? In our hands?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Show what's on TEP? What's on tep? All right?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Falcons twenty seven to twenty four of the Rams on
Monday Night Football. The game also featured the greatest catch
I've ever seen in my entire life. And it was
a catch. I mean, I got on the playground. That's
a catch. He held on to the ball even after
he fell. He was just out of bounds. It just
doesn't count as a catch in an NFL game. But
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that was the greatest catch of a football I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I don't care if it didn't count.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It was incredible.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
That was unreal, and so it was pokin nakua. If
you didn't see it, go see it. I still don't
even understand the physics of how he even caught that ball.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
We're gonna ask.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Jean Stator about it and many other things from the
Seahawks Panthers game, because we've got a list of like
thirty eight plays that we think the officials may or
MA not have blown in that game. So we're going
to take a gene to task today at eight o'clock.
Seattle at San Francisco Saturday at five. That's not gonna change,
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doesn't matter what kind of NFL math that's going on
right now. Greg Bell will join us today to preview
at seven oh five.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
So one last conversation.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Of twenty twenty five with our Seahawks insider Greg Bell.
Chargers to rest Justin Herbert and others for week number eighteen,
and I got a theory behind why they're doing that.
We'll discuss that today at seven forty five. Lamar's status
Lamar Jackson to be determined. Something tells me he's going
to play, But something also tells me that maybe Ravens
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have figured out that Derrick Henry deserves some carries. So maybe, yeah,
I took him about seventeen and a half weeks the
Ravens at Pittsburgh Sunday Night football, and that will be
for a playoff spot. The winner is in, the loser
is out. College football playoff resumes tomorrow at four point
thirty with Miami versus Ohio State, then three games on
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New Year's Day. The Kraken will next play on New
Year's Day at home against Nashville. Unfortunately, they won't be
writing a five game winning streak. They lost last night
and a shootout to the Canucks three to two the
final score. It snaps a four game winning streak for
the Kraken, and yet they are zero and four in
shootouts this year. That's something that has plagued them since
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they were birthed.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That shootout was ugly.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Everett will join us today at eight thirty and finally,
a nice win for the Fighting Sprinkles ub one over
Utah last night by a final score of seventy four
to sixty five, and the Husky s hoops team will
next play at Indiana Sunday at five o'clock. Coming up next,
do we have a quarterback issue or just a quarterback
turnover issue? We'll discuss Sam Darnold here on Chuck and
(21:51):
Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You look really stupid.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I really feel really stupid.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Turned it into a haul and oatmeal conversation.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It's a great that's not.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
A bad one.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Actually, you know, maybe an entire line of breakfast items
named after named after you know, celebrities.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
They've really been missing out.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, yeah, I think the Atlanta Falcons offensive line should
be called the Jake Matthews Band. Follow that last night
during the football game, Well, hasn't the entire group called
the Jake Matthews Band. It's Chuck Powell, Buggy jacobs In
and Ashley Ryan with you here on this Tuesday morning,
our final show of twenty twenty five. And of course
what airtime we do have this week, which is today,
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and then we'll be back on with you on Friday
for a football Friday. We'll probably be spent getting you
ready for Seahawks forty nine ers Saturday night with the
number one seed and the NFC on the line, and
so all sorts of preparation. And look, I mean there
are a lot of teams out there. I mean I
heard Josh Allen criticism on.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The way in to work today on one.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Of the shows Horse Philadelphia's offense looks completely broken. Matt
Stafford had his worst game of the year, arguably last night,
and it seems like he's playing his worst football, which
is still pretty good, but it seems like he's playing
his worst football at the absolute worst time. But I've
also seen teams turn on a dime as well from
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their last game of the regular season and then go
on a playoff run. So you just never know. Plus
it's been a crazy kind of year. But it does
make you wonder, with all of this conversation about turning
the page, getting ready for the playoffs, get ready for
the biggest regular season game of the year, how good
is our quarterback playing right now? And leave it to
our own Humillon. I think that he nailed it yesterday.
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He usually is right about these things. Not always, but
he's usually right about these things. And he's not worried
about the turnovers necessarily. He's more worried about the lack
of the drop off in production. He's not playing as
well right now, there's no getting around it. In the
second half of the season, Sam Darnold has not been
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as awesome as he was in the first half, but
he had a nice little pedestal to fall off of.
I mean, he was playing far better than any of
us thought he was going to in the first half.
In Sam, I trust and I'm good with our guy
at quarterback going into the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
But Bucky, I think he was right.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
I think the bigger concern is not that you're losing
the turnover battle potentially by a turnover per day, or
that his interception rate is too high. It's where's all
of that beefy production that we saw in the first half.
Where are those three four touchdown passes a game that
you were giving us. I can live with the one
and a half turnovers per game if you give me
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the three and a half touchdown passes per game.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Yeah, I mean, it's weird how it gets graded. I mean,
he was definitely the offense was definitely humming a little
bit more early. And yet there's certain times where games
don't necessarily I mean that Minnesota game that they win
twenty six zero, they probably could have won forty five
to zero. Like it just you all of a sudden,
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they're kind of rolling and then you're just you're trying
to run the clock out. You're trying to get this
thing over and you know, eliminate it. You have as
few plays where somebody could possibly get hurt out there.
I mean, the Indianapolis game is one that kind of
stuck it out a little bit. But to me, it's
you're going out to try to win, right, That's the
most important thing. And he has had a game. Obviously,
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the game that they lost to the Rams, he threw
four picks.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That was bad. Otherwise they'd be on like an eleven
game win streak.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
So it's kind of it's like, okay, second half of
the season if you want to if people want to
get overly critical of his his output or his you
can't get too critical overly critical about his outcome. I mean,
they've won ten out of eleven games down the stretch here,
so they're figuring out how to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I mean, would it be to me?
Speaker 6 (25:57):
It's almost like the learn from the Ram, Like, Man,
I'm trying to force this thing in there, because I
was thinking that this might be a shootout like it
was last week against the Rams and the thirty eight
to thirty seven thrilling, you know, biggest comeback in Seahawks history.
He might have thought that's what you're gonna have to
do against the Rams, but the defense showed up to
where I was like, no, you just needed to not
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give it, give turn the ball over and in a
couple of crucial spots there and you end up winning
that ball game. I think that maybe the second half
of the season they're kind of kind of forming into
what it. They think that it is their formula of winning. Now,
it's not turning the ball over, it's not fumbling, it's
not throwing turnover, they're throwing picks. But it is we're
going to just kind of control the game a little bit,
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and we understand that our defense going to is going
to keep us in it. And if our defense keeps
us in it, more often than not, you're going to
find a way to win. Because that's one thing that
the overly critical side of Sam Darnold, it's like, do
you still not recognize that he goes out and gets
it done when it comes down to it. He always
goes out and gets it done, even if you don't
like the fact that he's he's you know, up there
with a bunch of turnovers and you know, at times
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putting in a tough situation, he still is going out
there and finding ways to win.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Well, no doubt. But also you know, and this is
something that you've pointed out. During that stretch, you faced
a lot of backup quarterbacks and look, you won the game.
That's your job. You go out there and win. You
win the game. But you're getting ready for the playoffs
and you're gonna be facing the best competition out there,
and I don't think that you can just rest on
our defense will carry us there. I need Sam to
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play better if we're gonna win the Super Bowl. He
does have to play better. I don't want anybody else
at quarterback.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
He's our guy. You know.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I have confidence that he will. But there's no doubt
there's been a drop off. And you pointed this out yesterday.
I get him a letter grade of A as a
Seahawk quarterback for twenty twenty five, and there's no way, however,
he plays against the San Francisco forty nine ers. I
think it's gonna come off of an A. That he
had an A for this year, and for all the
reasons that you pointed out. But he had twenty five
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I mean a teen touchdowns and six interceptions in the
first nine games of the year, and he's eight to
eight in the last seven. I mean, that's half the
production and that and it's more turnovers over the course
of nearly the same amount of games.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
He's just four in one of one game.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Well sure, yeah, but you know I'm putting three of
his touchdown passes in one game, you know, So again, yeah,
there are individual things that can skew the statistics. Yeah,
but when you're talking about a lump, it's very clear
that he's not playing as well uh in the second
half of the season as he was in the first
half of the season. And I don't need him to
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be spectacular every single game in the playoffs, but I
need him to be better than what he's been here
as of late if we're going to pull off the
very difficult task of winning the NFL Championship tournament.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Yeah, And I think that's a fair ask, is to
have him improve over what we've seen lately. And it
has been worrisome, the turnovers and the lack of predictive productivity,
all of it.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
But they're still finding a way to win.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
And I wonder how much of it is just that
other teams had, you know, more film to watch as
they saw teams that were able to kind of shut
us down or stifle us offensively, and then they were
able to kind of replicate that against him and against
and you know, close shutting JSN down a bit more
and doing different things that threw him off, and we
would didn't respond well.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Perhaps Hey, quarterback rating, for example, I mean he has
had now four of his last five games where he
hasn't even gotten over in eighty four. I mean, he
had a stretch earlier this year where he had six
out of seven games where he was over one hundred
and ten one hundred and ten, you know. So it's
not that I think he's playing bad football or he's
(29:53):
playing poorly, But if you're going to win the Super Bowl,
I need him to play better than what.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
He's playing right now.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
And I think that's what he was saying right now.
I'm more that's what he was saying yesterday. I'm not
as concerned about the turnover rate. I'm concerned about where
the overall production has gone here in the last few weeks.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, well, and that's fair.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
I mean, bottom line is we hear it all the time,
you're getting hot at the right time and whatnot. Well,
that basically means you want to finish the season strong.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
You don't want to go you limp in, right.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
I mean, imagine if they were thirteen and oh to
start the season and then they go lose, lose, lose, right,
how we'd be feeling going into the final week of
the season, and then what the conversation would be.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Well, that's not the case.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
They're actually ten and one over the last eleven weeks,
and they're doing it in spite of some of his
less than stellar play. It's not as consistent of play.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Now.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
They're beating teams at a bigger clip, like buy more.
Their margin of victory is bigger than anybody else. So
there's times when to me it gets overstated. The objective
is the outcome now is it? Is it okay to
be critical? Yes, because, no doubt about it. Once you
get into the playoffs, I don't even care if you
wind up, you know, getting a buy and then for
(31:09):
some reason you get to play the Panthers end up
upsetting I don't know who the who would it be?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Maybe it's the Rams.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
They end up upsetting the Rams, And all of a sudden,
you get to play the Panthers at home your first game,
and it feels like wow, this easiest path. Well, in
order for them to still accomplish the goal, which is
win all of the games in the postseason and hoist
the trophy at the end, he's gonna have to clean
some of that up.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah. It doesn't mean he has to be perfect.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Yeah, but you most certainly can't go out there and
be the Achilles Heel.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
And Yet the thing that I don't.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Understand when some people are just over the top about
Sam Darnold's garbage and whatever else, is like, are you
not still recognizing all the good stuff he does? It's
not that there isn't poor things that he does. He does,
he makes some mistakes, he has some bad throws. He
also has some bad luck, or he has a tendency
at times to let the ball be stripped, and it's
like you to get rid of it. They can't be
(32:00):
fumbling it either. And yet to me, it's like the
dude's going out there and balling out. I mean, he's
going to be a pro bowler when he served it,
he earned it.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
When he's saying I mean, he's not Josh Allen.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
He's not going to take this team and carry him
on their back all the way to the super Bowl.
That's not the role that I think he's expected to play.
He has a great defense, he has a great special teams,
he has a great coaching staff. He's got a great
weapon in JSN. But he needs to play better. Yeah,
he just needs to play better because the games are
now more important. The competition is now consistently the best
(32:35):
that you're going to face this entire year. So yeah,
he can bail out of the playoffs and let's say
round two, let's give us ourselves a win and we
can feel good about the year we had with Sam
Darnold and look forward to having Number fourteen back next
season leading us and taking that next step and maybe
winning it next year. But if we're going to win
this year, he's just got to be better than what
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he's been as of late.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
Yeah, And I think that's a fair ask or a
fair request to make, is that. Yeah, Just it's not
We're not asking for him to be the superstar to
lead us on his back.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That's the defense is going to do that. But you
just can't be the liability.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Yeah, all right, coming up next, it's here, The New
Year's is here. I wonder what Bucky's got plan for
twenty twenty six. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
I I got, like, I mean, I don't normally do
New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
This year, I've got like four hundred.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
And six oh really, yeah, lot, and one of.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Them is to go see more cracking games. That's good
for this upcoming year. So that's gonna be a resolution
of mind.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Bucky, do you do? Do you play the New Year's
resolution game? You got anything that you.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Are going to be on a quest to accomplish in
twenty twenty six?
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Not that I would call a new Year's resolution. Uh mean,
I've been it's been six months that I've been kind
of getting back into the gym, so getting just getting
healthier is a thing. That's one of my four h
six Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's something I'm not I
didn't I'm not starting in a couple of days. I've
kind of already been going there. So I guess maybe
the new Year's resolution is kick it into gear even more,
(34:08):
continue down that path as fourteen actually yeah, kick it
into gear yeap, and continue down the path all in one.
Yeah good, that's yeah, you can, you can consolidate a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
No, I don't.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
I don't really have I don't typically do them. As
a matter of fact, I can't really remember if I
ever have done a New Year's resolution, like written something
down like I'm going to start today and then start
something that day.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
I've had the very successful ones in my life, like
what and yet I haven't consistently done it, and then
I have had complete failures in my life. So it
can work. But you know, it's just it's just the mindset.
It's just like starting a new and getting around to
doing something that you know makes you a better person.
(34:53):
And so sometimes just kind of setting that example for yourself,
it can work.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Normally it doesn't. But yeah, did you ever participate, Ashley?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I have not done it very often.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
It's kind of like when you do you need make
a something for Lent, right, like, I'm gonna do this,
which I'm not even a religious person, but my friend
in college wanted me to do things for Lent, and
I was like, I don't want to give things up. Like,
so we one time I gave up eating my like
buying French fries or eating French, eating my own French fries.
So she would buy French fries and I'd eat hers.
(35:30):
I mean, yeah, I'm like, what am I doing? This
is a waste of my time.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
At New Year's Resolution?
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Isn't At least you're not spitting in the face of
God when you're eating, When.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
You're getting around your French fry rules, you might as
well just be spitting in God.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
I might, I might as well have and I apologize
you should, but I do feel like years to apologize
to god less French fries.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
No, don't worry about eating less French fries. But yeah, okay, overdue.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I am sorry. I do to us, No, I said,
I looked up. I do feel like you know.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
I I also I've been trying to be better, just
healthier in things for the last two years, year and
a half, and it's been a slow process. But I've
had like struggles with weight and things like that over
the years. And when I do it too faster, you
go to extreme. You never maintain it.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
So I've been on a slow, steady path for a
long time.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
And I'm so maybe mine would be like add one
more day of exercise.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Okay, like for the year, or for like per week.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
Per week okay, yeah, well for the year. Actually, you
know what, I can achieve that I am going to
work out one more day.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
You know what, when you put together a list of
four hundred and six New Year's resolutions like I have
this year, which suggests I've got a lot to work on.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
You do.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
There are some that are lofty and then there are
some that are menial. Just so that I can achieve them.
Like one of them was by breakfast bars for the
New Year. I did that last night. We're already good.
W off the list.
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Yeah, it's more of an errand than a New Year's
resolution if you do it prior to the New year.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I don't think there are any rules. I think there is, Yeah, actually,
because I have them for the New year.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Okay, you got them leading up to and on and
then following New Year's I'm having a breakfast bar on
New Year's Day because six.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Started it by checking that off your resolution list, because
I got a strong will you do what you do
and that's.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Why people fail and they don't prepare ahead of time. Yeah,
and you are now prepared.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
The more you make I think.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Yeah, So out of four hundred and six, I might
accomplish like five, Well, good for you, And four of
them might be really easy. But if I can accomplish
one out of four hundred and six, that actually could
make me a better person.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Success.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
What's the most difficult one on your list?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
One percent better, Chuck?
Speaker 6 (37:50):
I guess if you have four hundred, you're not quite
at one percent per but you're there.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
You're on one percent.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
The most difficult one on my list. I think it's
sad that I have to say this. End crime.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Oh that is gonna be tough.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
I'm gonna crime fight, I'm gonna crime fight in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I'm gonna try to end it all.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I really appreciate your lofty goals.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
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We're going to take you through the next four hours
of course, building you up till Saturday's big game, Seahawks
taking on the forty nine Ers. So much at stake,
and the path has changed a little bit for the
Seahawks toward the playoffs, which we'll get into here in
a moment. We've got our normal array of outstanding Tuesday
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Speaker 7 (01:59):
I don't know, like I thought, it feels like like
maybe Sparkly spark you know, because like when you end
the year, you got like fireworks and things like that,
and everyone wears glitter and it's all, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Like it's only it's only six o two. I mean,
there's way to go.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Okay, there's still time. It was like I just was.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Any surprises, but yeah, Sparkly woke up.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
I went to the bathroom and then there was fireworks
going off. As I went outside, there was a parade
down the road.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, that's awesome. One of those I rode in one
of those duck boats.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
All the way here. I was thrown skittles out to people.
There wasn't many people on the side, but there was
still some.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
People skittles, don't they Yeah, Yeah, for miles around, very
sparkly for me.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
People celebrating the last day of of our show before
this year.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, man, I don't have that experience, but I'm glad
you do.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It is sort of strain. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Maybe this has existed my entire life.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I don't know, but it.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Does feel like the older that I get that though,
And I don't think it's because of my age. I
think that the world's just changing, like this time of
the year, like nothing is happening.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I mean, we have like four people in the office
they say.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yesterday, day of the year is December fifteenth.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, And it feels like to me every day it
gets a little more exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And I don't think that's a bad thing.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I know, you know, everybody says across the globe that
Americans work too hard and we do too many hours
and it's not healthy and everything else. We need a break,
So maybe it's maybe it's I'm not criticizing it I
think maybe it's a good thing, but it just does
sort of feel and I know there's out there listening
that do a lot harder jobs than what we do,
but it feels like there's like ten of us working, yeah,
(03:55):
for like the last two weeks of the year.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So I don't know, and I think that's a good thing.
I think that.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
But it gets more celebrative this time of year every year,
and so's there's no doubt that I've experienced that here
driving around just actually existing here for the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I mean, on a Monday night, I just went out
for my walk.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I went out for a walk on Monday, just around
the neighborhood, around the town, and I'm telling you, there
were people packed in the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
On a Monday night.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, so I probably a little bit of we've been
cooped up with our families all weekend long and I
just want to get out and civilization. Maybe there's some
of that, but it's it's the I don't think anybody's
working right now, and they're just like the celebration is on.
And I think it's great, don't get me wrong, but
it does feel like it gets ramped up a little
(04:47):
more every year.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah, well, I mean I think Monday nights it's good.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Good to hear that the people are out and about
and doing their thing and really getting making the most
of the holidays because I mean, yeah, we do hear
like in Europe for example, althoughay they do like four
day work days, right or four day work weeks and
us having a couple like three day ones right, bang bang, Yeah,
(05:13):
I'm going to probably start a petition and see if
we can make that a little bit more of a
solid thing. I mean, I'd even be willing to go Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Wow, that is very noble.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Yeah, I mean I would prefer Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
and then just get Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday off. Would
be the way in which I'm going to propose it.
But it's one of those you know, you shoot for
the moon and you land in the stars type of thing. Yes,
because I think it just makes more sense, more rested,
just everybody. It'll just be better for everyone.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Sure, yeah, no, thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I'm gonna get it done.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
I was wondering too, though, if having New Year's Eve
on a Wednesday has anything to do with like more
people out on a Monday, you know what I mean,
Like they're already kind of in a party mood.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I think it's both hand in hand.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I was just talking to Bucky about this yesterday, and
I guess things are done differently in Oregon or I'm
misremembering the way that they were done in Illinois. But
I remember as a kid, you rooted for Christmas to
fall off in the middle of the week, and then
because I met, New Year's fell in the middle of
(06:17):
the week, and the reason was that you got like
two and a half weeks off because they didn't mess
around with we're just going to send you to school
for a day or for two days.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Why are we going to do that?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So you got two and a half where if it
fell on like a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, you know,
you'd get a half day on Thursday, and then you'd
go all the way through and then you would end
up with only a week and.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
A half off.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Oh doing it that way, I maybe I'm misremembering it,
but I'm pretty sure that's the way that it was
when I was a kid. You always rooted for the
holidays to Christmas and New Year's to fall in the
middle of the week so that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You got more time off.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
But maybe that's not something that they did here in
the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
This was just two weeks across the board, that's.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
What That's what Bucky said, And maybe I'm not remembering
it the right way.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
I think Illinois just is they're real more. They're a
lot more strict on getting their education.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah. Well, yeah here sledding more important than I think.
People from southern.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Illinois are well known for being high heard. Yeah, thats
what known Cornfield's and academia.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
The connection between US and Oxford.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Oh boy, I mean you basically have just a tunnel
that goes from Illinois all the way to Oxford.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I mean the classmates that I have that went to
Harvard law.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
All right, well, we're underway here on this thirtieth day
of December twenty twenty five. It is our last show,
and so yes, we're glad you're celebrating the holidays. I
hope it hasn't taken away time from us. I'm sure
if you have a day away from work, you're still
telling the wife and kids, I gotta get up at
five point fifty eight to catch you know, Ashley Buck
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and Chuck, and so we really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, that's that's you know right here.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That's where that gets right in the old ticker.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
And so we got a lot to break down today,
including last night's Monday night football game, which did kind
of alter things for the Seahawks and their path toward
the Super Bowl. The Atlanta Falcons won over the Los
Angeles Rams last night twenty seven to twenty four. The
Rams did battle back despite Matt Stafford having one of
his worst games of the entire season, an MVP like season.
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He was just inaccurate at times in the game, but
the Rams almost came back because the Atlanta Falcons don't
know how to win. And yet the Falcons played extraordinarily
well in the first half. They were far, I mean,
they were just flying all over the field. Bejon Robinsons
showcase game for him. But the Falcons do win it
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final score of twenty seven to twenty four in that contest.
And because of that win, and I think this is
significant news, which is why I'm leading with it here
on a Tuesday morning, our last show of the year.
Is that this guarantees that the Seahawks are going to
be on the one, four and five side of the
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NFC bracket. The Rams can still get the five seed,
but there's no way now that the Seahawks can end
up the sixth seed. There's no way that the Rams
can catch the Seahawks because of their loss to the
Atlanta Falcons last night. And I mean, if anybody's studying
the bracket and anything can happen in the playoffs, obviously
you want the one because the one gives you the
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buy and home field advantage throughout the playoffs, the only
buye and the only team to have home field advantage
throughout the playoffs. But if you want something else, and
they talked about this in the broadcast last night, the
Rams might blow their chance at the five seed and
then you've got to go on the road to Philly, Yeah,
or you've got to go on the road to Chicago. Chicago,
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who's playing really well and you don't know what kind
of weather you're going to get in that situation, and
the difference between that and getting to play at Tampa
who's lost seven of their last eight, or Carolina, who
you just saw how kind of.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
An ep that they are.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I mean, that's just a completely different road to the
super Bowl, and you want that road to be as
easy as it can get.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
The road to the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Got easier last night for the Seattle Seahawks because the
Atlanta Falcons took out the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah, you're obviously still wanting that number one. You want
that buy and advance through the first round without even
having to lace up your cleats. But if you can,
if you don't find a way to go on the
road and be the Niners, and yeah, you find yourself
either going to Carolina or Tampa, like you said, definitely
is an easier path than the Chicago Bears are Philadelphia Eagles.
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Now on any given day, I mean I think on
any given day, anybody that gets in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Can do something.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
But I would just think the betty you know, folks
that are betting making odds, they would just say, yeah,
you're sitting in the five spot. There's a whole heck
of a lot better than having to travel and play
either Philadelphi, because Philadelphia, you don't know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I don't even know for sure. If you know what
you're gonna get with the Bears.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
They're they're improved, Yeah, but I would just feel like
the floor of both those teams is definitely above the
floor of the Panthers and the Bucks.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Well.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I think the NFC this year, and we talked about this,
I think that was the day you weren't here. There's
not a great team. I think that the Seahawks have
touched greatness. I don't think they've been consistently great this year.
I don't think the forty nine ers have been consistently great.
And now the Rams, who were the closest thing to
being consistently great, have suddenly lost to Carolina in Atlanta
in the last month, So they're certainly not playing their
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best football and maybe they've fallen off of there. So
I think that it's a wild Both AFC and NFC
could be all wild postseason this year. And of course
there's the element of anything can happen, and any team
is capable of winning on any given Sunday or Saturday
as it might be in the postseason. But in terms
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of just a path there, I mean, there's no question
that you would rather play at Tampa or at Carolina
in Round number one than you would at Philadelphia, not
knowing the weather, defending world champs, playing great defense, even
though their offense seems inept right now, they're playing as
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well as the Seahawks are playing defensively in Philadelphia or
at Chicago again weather element. They've been riding high as
of late. So I mean, sure they could end up
being a walkover for whoever faces them. Maybe they commit
seven turnovers in the first playoff game and hand it
to whoever they face. But in terms of just trying
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to calculate, Ashley, who you would rather meet, who gives
you the best chance of winning and advancing, I mean,
I want to be on the four to five one
side of the bracket in the NFC playoffs, and the
Seahawks locked that up last night.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Absolutely, And I think that's been the biggest issue in
the NFC is in general, the inconsistencies with so many
teams you don't know who you're getting. You look at
the Eagles, though, and I do think I would liken
it to counting out the Chiefs in the playoffs the
last couple of years. Right, Oh, they've been down, they
haven't had a great year. Well, come playoff time, those
teams are primed for that right, So I wouldn't want
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to face anybody like that that has that experience that
just won a Super Bowl, because you never know how
they're going to step up when the postseason comes.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So, watching the game last.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Night and think game, I was talking to five Iron
and I was like, does this change anything for the Seahawks,
And neither of us knew. So the fact that we're
finding that out, I love that that at least it
doesn't seem that big of a deal. But I do
think it is a much bigger deal to at least
know you're avoiding that six seed.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Now, I don't think you want to admit it as
an NFL team, I don't think you ever would admit
that you like your path, yeah, because that's bulletin board material.
But I think there's a reason Joe and Troy were
making such a big deal out of it last night.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
With the Rams.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
They're gonna blow their chance, yeah, to be the five
seed here. I mean, they still had a chance at
the one seed if things crumbled the right way over
the course of the next couple of over the course
of the game last night and then week number eighteen,
but they're gonna blow their chance at the five seed potentially,
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and they still have a shot at the five seed
if they If they win and the Seahawks beat the
forty nine ers, the Rams end up the five seed
and they get to go to Tampa or Carolina. But
the Seattle Seahawks can now finish no lower than the
first big deal, and that to me, I think is
a significant deal. So you either are going to get
a bye and absolutely have the preferred route that everybody wants,
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or you get the second best route, which is five
seed at Tampa at Carolina, and then you would have
to face San Francisco again. If you don't get it,
you'd have to face San Francisco again in the next round.
But that's a pretty familiar opponent who's already beaten you twice.
Under this scenario, that means they have beaten you twice already.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And can you beat a good team three times?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I mean, give me that road all day long over
having to go to possibly Philadelphia, then Chicago, and then
San Francisco, because that's what you're facing if if you
don't end up on the four to five to one
side of the bracket.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, I mean, it's I think you already touched on it.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
The idea of the teams that if you just take
the entirety their entire work that they've had this season,
Carolina and Tampa Bay are the teams that, not just
because how you handled Carolina, I think you'd get a
better version of Carolina possibly in the playoffs than what
you saw. Not that they didn't show up or or
have anything to play for, but you would just imagine
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that probably is about as bad as they're going to play.
Tampa Bay just seems kind of lost. At the same time,
that is a team that is just now kind of
getting some of their players back, and so they're a
little bit more dangerous, but none of them are is.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Dangerous as Philly or Chicago.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
And I think that the Tamas lost seven of eight,
they look atrocious.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Now maybe they can come alive.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
That's some good players. They worry me more than the
Carolina Panthers would. I'm just kind of putting it in
the order of if there's four teams you could possibly
play if you don't end up, if you don't end
up getting that number one seed, and then Chicago and Philly,
Philly is the scariest, and then yet Chicago but both
of them going on the road, playing at their place
with who knows what the weather could be like. That
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is something that all of a sudden, you know, you
just kind of were like. It makes it feel even
more important that you want to get that number one seed.
I mean, not that it wasn't already important to just
get a buye through the first round and get to
rest your players and get as healthy as possible, not
to mention everything through Seattle at that point in time.
That's what everybody wants, obviously, but it does feel like
yesterday the Falcons.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Did you a favor.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
They did your favor at least of letting you know
that if you falter on Saturday against the Niners, you're
going to have what you would feel like is advantage
Seattle going into your first first wild card game.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
And who they really did a favor for was Carolina
because now there's a scenario where Carolina, even with a
loss Saturday, still gets into the playoffs, still wins the division.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Oh yeah, because of Atlanta. That's right.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Because Atlanta, if they went out and believe me, the
schedule makers did not weren't counting on the Falcons winning
last night.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, because they made the schedule.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Win yeah, Monday morning, yeah, probably.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Or no Sunday night, Sunday night.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
They made the schedule for week number eighteen, and so
there was an expectator.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
There's a reason Tampa Bay and Carolina are.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Being featured by themselves one game only, because that's supposed
to be the winner is in in, the loser is out.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Well that's not the case anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
The Atlanta Falcons, with a win next week, end up
with a same record as those two, even with a
Carolina loss on Saturday, and that would give the tiebreaker
to Carolina. So there's a chance that Carolina has nothing
at stake, but they won't know that when they play Saturday.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
You know they.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Would if they lost, then they're rooting for Atlanta on
Sunday to beat the Saints because then they still get
in even with the tamp So Tampa Bay can't celebrate
where Carolina can celebrate on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That makes sense.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So Carolina wins there in, But there is now a
scenario because of the Falcons win last night, where the
Carolina Panthers could lose Saturday and still win the division.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
I'm just glad Seattle is not in that position right
where we hold our own destiny. We're not sitting there
waiting for somebody else to do something else, to find out.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's just in our hands.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
It's nice, all right, Let's find out what's on tap
for this? In our hands?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Show what's on TEP? What's on tep? All right?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Falcons twenty seven to twenty four of the Rams on
Monday Night Football. The game also featured the greatest catch
I've ever seen in my entire life. And it was
a catch. I mean, I got on the playground. That's
a catch. He held on to the ball even after
he fell. He was just out of bounds. It just
doesn't count as a catch in an NFL game. But
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that was the greatest catch of a football I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I don't care if it didn't count.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It was incredible.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
That was unreal, and so it was pokin nakua. If
you didn't see it, go see it. I still don't
even understand the physics of how he even caught that ball.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
We're gonna ask.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Jean Stator about it and many other things from the
Seahawks Panthers game, because we've got a list of like
thirty eight plays that we think the officials may or
MA not have blown in that game. So we're going
to take a gene to task today at eight o'clock.
Seattle at San Francisco Saturday at five. That's not gonna change,
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doesn't matter what kind of NFL math that's going on
right now. Greg Bell will join us today to preview
at seven oh five.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
So one last conversation.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Of twenty twenty five with our Seahawks insider Greg Bell.
Chargers to rest Justin Herbert and others for week number eighteen,
and I got a theory behind why they're doing that.
We'll discuss that today at seven forty five. Lamar's status
Lamar Jackson to be determined. Something tells me he's going
to play, But something also tells me that maybe Ravens
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have figured out that Derrick Henry deserves some carries. So maybe, yeah,
I took him about seventeen and a half weeks the
Ravens at Pittsburgh Sunday Night football, and that will be
for a playoff spot. The winner is in, the loser
is out. College football playoff resumes tomorrow at four point
thirty with Miami versus Ohio State, then three games on
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New Year's Day. The Kraken will next play on New
Year's Day at home against Nashville. Unfortunately, they won't be
writing a five game winning streak. They lost last night
and a shootout to the Canucks three to two the
final score. It snaps a four game winning streak for
the Kraken, and yet they are zero and four in
shootouts this year. That's something that has plagued them since
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they were birthed.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That shootout was ugly.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Everett will join us today at eight thirty and finally,
a nice win for the Fighting Sprinkles ub one over
Utah last night by a final score of seventy four
to sixty five, and the Husky s hoops team will
next play at Indiana Sunday at five o'clock. Coming up next,
do we have a quarterback issue or just a quarterback
turnover issue? We'll discuss Sam Darnold here on Chuck and
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Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You look really stupid.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I really feel really stupid.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Turned it into a haul and oatmeal conversation.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It's a great that's not.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
A bad one.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Actually, you know, maybe an entire line of breakfast items
named after named after you know, celebrities.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
They've really been missing out.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, yeah, I think the Atlanta Falcons offensive line should
be called the Jake Matthews Band. Follow that last night
during the football game, Well, hasn't the entire group called
the Jake Matthews Band. It's Chuck Powell, Buggy jacobs In
and Ashley Ryan with you here on this Tuesday morning,
our final show of twenty twenty five. And of course
what airtime we do have this week, which is today,
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and then we'll be back on with you on Friday
for a football Friday. We'll probably be spent getting you
ready for Seahawks forty nine ers Saturday night with the
number one seed and the NFC on the line, and
so all sorts of preparation. And look, I mean there
are a lot of teams out there. I mean I
heard Josh Allen criticism on.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The way in to work today on one.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Of the shows Horse Philadelphia's offense looks completely broken. Matt
Stafford had his worst game of the year, arguably last night,
and it seems like he's playing his worst football, which
is still pretty good, but it seems like he's playing
his worst football at the absolute worst time. But I've
also seen teams turn on a dime as well from
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their last game of the regular season and then go
on a playoff run. So you just never know. Plus
it's been a crazy kind of year. But it does
make you wonder, with all of this conversation about turning
the page, getting ready for the playoffs, get ready for
the biggest regular season game of the year, how good
is our quarterback playing right now? And leave it to
our own Humillon. I think that he nailed it yesterday.
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He usually is right about these things. Not always, but
he's usually right about these things. And he's not worried
about the turnovers necessarily. He's more worried about the lack
of the drop off in production. He's not playing as
well right now, there's no getting around it. In the
second half of the season, Sam Darnold has not been
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as awesome as he was in the first half, but
he had a nice little pedestal to fall off of.
I mean, he was playing far better than any of
us thought he was going to in the first half.
In Sam, I trust and I'm good with our guy
at quarterback going into the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
But Bucky, I think he was right.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
I think the bigger concern is not that you're losing
the turnover battle potentially by a turnover per day, or
that his interception rate is too high. It's where's all
of that beefy production that we saw in the first half.
Where are those three four touchdown passes a game that
you were giving us. I can live with the one
and a half turnovers per game if you give me
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the three and a half touchdown passes per game.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Yeah, I mean, it's weird how it gets graded. I mean,
he was definitely the offense was definitely humming a little
bit more early. And yet there's certain times where games
don't necessarily I mean that Minnesota game that they win
twenty six zero, they probably could have won forty five
to zero. Like it just you all of a sudden,
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they're kind of rolling and then you're just you're trying
to run the clock out. You're trying to get this
thing over and you know, eliminate it. You have as
few plays where somebody could possibly get hurt out there.
I mean, the Indianapolis game is one that kind of
stuck it out a little bit. But to me, it's
you're going out to try to win, right, That's the
most important thing. And he has had a game. Obviously,
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the game that they lost to the Rams, he threw
four picks.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That was bad. Otherwise they'd be on like an eleven
game win streak.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
So it's kind of it's like, okay, second half of
the season if you want to if people want to
get overly critical of his his output or his you
can't get too critical overly critical about his outcome. I mean,
they've won ten out of eleven games down the stretch here,
so they're figuring out how to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I mean, would it be to me?
Speaker 6 (25:57):
It's almost like the learn from the Ram, Like, Man,
I'm trying to force this thing in there, because I
was thinking that this might be a shootout like it
was last week against the Rams and the thirty eight
to thirty seven thrilling, you know, biggest comeback in Seahawks history.
He might have thought that's what you're gonna have to
do against the Rams, but the defense showed up to
where I was like, no, you just needed to not
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give it, give turn the ball over and in a
couple of crucial spots there and you end up winning
that ball game. I think that maybe the second half
of the season they're kind of kind of forming into
what it. They think that it is their formula of winning. Now,
it's not turning the ball over, it's not fumbling, it's
not throwing turnover, they're throwing picks. But it is we're
going to just kind of control the game a little bit,
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and we understand that our defense going to is going
to keep us in it. And if our defense keeps
us in it, more often than not, you're going to
find a way to win. Because that's one thing that
the overly critical side of Sam Darnold, it's like, do
you still not recognize that he goes out and gets
it done when it comes down to it. He always
goes out and gets it done, even if you don't
like the fact that he's he's you know, up there
with a bunch of turnovers and you know, at times
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putting in a tough situation, he still is going out
there and finding ways to win.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Well, no doubt. But also you know, and this is
something that you've pointed out. During that stretch, you faced
a lot of backup quarterbacks and look, you won the game.
That's your job. You go out there and win. You
win the game. But you're getting ready for the playoffs
and you're gonna be facing the best competition out there,
and I don't think that you can just rest on
our defense will carry us there. I need Sam to
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play better if we're gonna win the Super Bowl. He
does have to play better. I don't want anybody else
at quarterback.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
He's our guy. You know.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I have confidence that he will. But there's no doubt
there's been a drop off. And you pointed this out yesterday.
I get him a letter grade of A as a
Seahawk quarterback for twenty twenty five, and there's no way, however,
he plays against the San Francisco forty nine ers. I
think it's gonna come off of an A. That he
had an A for this year, and for all the
reasons that you pointed out. But he had twenty five
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I mean a teen touchdowns and six interceptions in the
first nine games of the year, and he's eight to
eight in the last seven. I mean, that's half the
production and that and it's more turnovers over the course
of nearly the same amount of games.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
He's just four in one of one game.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Well sure, yeah, but you know I'm putting three of
his touchdown passes in one game, you know, So again, yeah,
there are individual things that can skew the statistics. Yeah,
but when you're talking about a lump, it's very clear
that he's not playing as well uh in the second
half of the season as he was in the first
half of the season. And I don't need him to
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be spectacular every single game in the playoffs, but I
need him to be better than what he's been here
as of late if we're going to pull off the
very difficult task of winning the NFL Championship tournament.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Yeah, And I think that's a fair ask, is to
have him improve over what we've seen lately. And it
has been worrisome, the turnovers and the lack of predictive productivity,
all of it.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
But they're still finding a way to win.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
And I wonder how much of it is just that
other teams had, you know, more film to watch as
they saw teams that were able to kind of shut
us down or stifle us offensively, and then they were
able to kind of replicate that against him and against
and you know, close shutting JSN down a bit more
and doing different things that threw him off, and we
would didn't respond well.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Perhaps Hey, quarterback rating, for example, I mean he has
had now four of his last five games where he
hasn't even gotten over in eighty four. I mean, he
had a stretch earlier this year where he had six
out of seven games where he was over one hundred
and ten one hundred and ten, you know. So it's
not that I think he's playing bad football or he's
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playing poorly, But if you're going to win the Super Bowl,
I need him to play better than what.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
He's playing right now.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
And I think that's what he was saying right now.
I'm more that's what he was saying yesterday. I'm not
as concerned about the turnover rate. I'm concerned about where
the overall production has gone here in the last few weeks.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, well, and that's fair.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
I mean, bottom line is we hear it all the time,
you're getting hot at the right time and whatnot. Well,
that basically means you want to finish the season strong.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
You don't want to go you limp in, right.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
I mean, imagine if they were thirteen and oh to
start the season and then they go lose, lose, lose, right,
how we'd be feeling going into the final week of
the season, and then what the conversation would be.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Well, that's not the case.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
They're actually ten and one over the last eleven weeks,
and they're doing it in spite of some of his
less than stellar play. It's not as consistent of play.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Now.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
They're beating teams at a bigger clip, like buy more.
Their margin of victory is bigger than anybody else. So
there's times when to me it gets overstated. The objective
is the outcome now is it? Is it okay to
be critical? Yes, because, no doubt about it. Once you
get into the playoffs, I don't even care if you
wind up, you know, getting a buy and then for
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some reason you get to play the Panthers end up
upsetting I don't know who the who would it be?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Maybe it's the Rams.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
They end up upsetting the Rams, And all of a sudden,
you get to play the Panthers at home your first game,
and it feels like wow, this easiest path. Well, in
order for them to still accomplish the goal, which is
win all of the games in the postseason and hoist
the trophy at the end, he's gonna have to clean
some of that up.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah. It doesn't mean he has to be perfect.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Yeah, but you most certainly can't go out there and
be the Achilles Heel.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
And Yet the thing that I don't.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Understand when some people are just over the top about
Sam Darnold's garbage and whatever else, is like, are you
not still recognizing all the good stuff he does? It's
not that there isn't poor things that he does. He does,
he makes some mistakes, he has some bad throws. He
also has some bad luck, or he has a tendency
at times to let the ball be stripped, and it's
like you to get rid of it. They can't be
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fumbling it either. And yet to me, it's like the
dude's going out there and balling out. I mean, he's
going to be a pro bowler when he served it,
he earned it.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
When he's saying I mean, he's not Josh Allen.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
He's not going to take this team and carry him
on their back all the way to the super Bowl.
That's not the role that I think he's expected to play.
He has a great defense, he has a great special teams,
he has a great coaching staff. He's got a great
weapon in JSN. But he needs to play better. Yeah,
he just needs to play better because the games are
now more important. The competition is now consistently the best
(32:35):
that you're going to face this entire year. So yeah,
he can bail out of the playoffs and let's say
round two, let's give us ourselves a win and we
can feel good about the year we had with Sam
Darnold and look forward to having Number fourteen back next
season leading us and taking that next step and maybe
winning it next year. But if we're going to win
this year, he's just got to be better than what
(32:57):
he's been as of late.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
Yeah, And I think that's a fair ask or a
fair request to make, is that. Yeah, Just it's not
We're not asking for him to be the superstar to
lead us on his back.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That's the defense is going to do that. But you
just can't be the liability.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Yeah, all right, coming up next, it's here, The New
Year's is here. I wonder what Bucky's got plan for
twenty twenty six. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
I I got, like, I mean, I don't normally do
New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
This year, I've got like four hundred.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
And six oh really, yeah, lot, and one of.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Them is to go see more cracking games. That's good
for this upcoming year. So that's gonna be a resolution
of mind.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Bucky, do you do? Do you play the New Year's
resolution game? You got anything that you.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Are going to be on a quest to accomplish in
twenty twenty six?
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Not that I would call a new Year's resolution. Uh mean,
I've been it's been six months that I've been kind
of getting back into the gym, so getting just getting
healthier is a thing. That's one of my four h
six Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's something I'm not I
didn't I'm not starting in a couple of days. I've
kind of already been going there. So I guess maybe
the new Year's resolution is kick it into gear even more,
(34:08):
continue down that path as fourteen actually yeah, kick it
into gear yeap, and continue down the path all in one.
Yeah good, that's yeah, you can, you can consolidate a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
No, I don't.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
I don't really have I don't typically do them. As
a matter of fact, I can't really remember if I
ever have done a New Year's resolution, like written something
down like I'm going to start today and then start
something that day.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
I've had the very successful ones in my life, like
what and yet I haven't consistently done it, and then
I have had complete failures in my life. So it
can work. But you know, it's just it's just the mindset.
It's just like starting a new and getting around to
doing something that you know makes you a better person.
(34:53):
And so sometimes just kind of setting that example for yourself,
it can work.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Normally it doesn't. But yeah, did you ever participate, Ashley?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I have not done it very often.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
It's kind of like when you do you need make
a something for Lent, right, like, I'm gonna do this,
which I'm not even a religious person, but my friend
in college wanted me to do things for Lent, and
I was like, I don't want to give things up. Like,
so we one time I gave up eating my like
buying French fries or eating French, eating my own French fries.
So she would buy French fries and I'd eat hers.
(35:30):
I mean, yeah, I'm like, what am I doing? This
is a waste of my time.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
At New Year's Resolution?
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Isn't At least you're not spitting in the face of
God when you're eating, When.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
You're getting around your French fry rules, you might as
well just be spitting in God.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
I might, I might as well have and I apologize
you should, but I do feel like years to apologize
to god less French fries.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
No, don't worry about eating less French fries. But yeah, okay, overdue.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I am sorry. I do to us, No, I said,
I looked up. I do feel like you know.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
I I also I've been trying to be better, just
healthier in things for the last two years, year and
a half, and it's been a slow process. But I've
had like struggles with weight and things like that over
the years. And when I do it too faster, you
go to extreme. You never maintain it.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
So I've been on a slow, steady path for a
long time.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
And I'm so maybe mine would be like add one
more day of exercise.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Okay, like for the year, or for like per week.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
Per week okay, yeah, well for the year. Actually, you
know what, I can achieve that I am going to
work out one more day.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
You know what, when you put together a list of
four hundred and six New Year's resolutions like I have
this year, which suggests I've got a lot to work on.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
You do.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
There are some that are lofty and then there are
some that are menial. Just so that I can achieve them.
Like one of them was by breakfast bars for the
New Year. I did that last night. We're already good.
W off the list.
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Yeah, it's more of an errand than a New Year's
resolution if you do it prior to the New year.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I don't think there are any rules. I think there is, Yeah, actually,
because I have them for the New year.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Okay, you got them leading up to and on and
then following New Year's I'm having a breakfast bar on
New Year's Day because six.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Started it by checking that off your resolution list, because
I got a strong will you do what you do
and that's.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Why people fail and they don't prepare ahead of time. Yeah,
and you are now prepared.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
The more you make I think.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Yeah, So out of four hundred and six, I might
accomplish like five, Well, good for you, And four of
them might be really easy. But if I can accomplish
one out of four hundred and six, that actually could
make me a better person.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Success.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
What's the most difficult one on your list?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
One percent better, Chuck?
Speaker 6 (37:50):
I guess if you have four hundred, you're not quite
at one percent per but you're there.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
You're on one percent.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
The most difficult one on my list. I think it's
sad that I have to say this. End crime.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Oh that is gonna be tough.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
I'm gonna crime fight, I'm gonna crime fight in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I'm gonna try to end it all.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I really appreciate your lofty goals.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
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