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(01:06):
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By the way.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Josh Naylor uh not in Detroit with the team as
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The Blue Jays scored twenty three runs in their first
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Speaker 2 (01:33):
What else youg go on NFL football? The Seahawks lose
yesterday thirty eight thirty five. More on that with humellon
in a second. I'm a Pete Carroll releasing linebacker Jermaine
Pratt after just four games after the Raiders began one
in four. Patriots lost running back Antonio Gibson. He's out
for the year with a torn a cl.
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You going, by the way, No.
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We'll be here on pregame at six am in the Rue, so.
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That'll be fun.
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Maybe am big noon Fox game and then the Lions
corner Terry and Arnold is out for quote a long time,
according to head coach Dan Campbell, with the shoulder.
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the radio program a little more at four. You'll hear
him tomorrow with Ian Fernassa on Hardcore Football. It was
(02:29):
on the morning show today, and uh, you know, I
was pleased, I think with what we got out of
Hugh this morning.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
But it was in the postgame show.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
It kind of hot.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Actually, yeah, let's not go crazy. I thought he was
just okay, all right.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
You did not listen to the postgame show because.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I know where you were. That's correct, you were at
the baseballs. I did not hear the postgames.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Actually I was at Jimmy's with you, but I couldn't
hear the But I I I thought Hugh, you were
excellent this morning and excellent last night, but I want
a little more and a little more for But hey,
before we talk football, can we ask you about making babies?
Can you chime in on that for a second, because
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you because you've made two of them, he's an expert.
You've made two of them, just two, but yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Two that you know of Josh Josh Naylor.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That was German Gel and.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I what happened there.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But Josh Naylor is not with the team right now
because his wife is having a baby. We don't know
if he's going to be there or not for Game
three tomorrow. How do you process that, as an ex
professional athlete and a sports fan of this baseball team,
that the Mariners may lose one of their most important
players because his wife's having a kid.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
Uh, well, first of all, I would just say everything's personal,
and you know, you just kind of stay in your lane.
And so what I expressed to you my opinion. I'm
not judging anybody else. I I had, I knew that
I was pretty firm about what my answer would be.
But I I asked my wife, my only wife, and
we've got two kids, and and I was at her
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side for both of the birth of both of them,
And I said, Hey, if I was still playing and
I had a playoff game and I had to be
on the road and miss the birth of our first son,
how would you feel about that? And her response is, well,
I think it would be more important for you to
be playing and just get to me as fast as
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you possibly can. And I thought that's what she would say.
I wasn't certain, and that's what I would say. I
would I would look, unless you're gonna tell me there's
a really really high probability of issues happening with the
baby or the mom and not you know, look, I
know that's a possibility. You can't say it's it's certainly
something more than zero. But for me, I would play,
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and then I would want to just get there as
soon as possible, or even if you're just there for
a couple of hours, you know, the birth, be with
your bride, be with your your baby, and then get
on a plane and go fulfill your duty. Now, undoubtedly
there's people who do not agree with that, and I
(05:08):
respect the opposite take. Yeah, but you asked me how
we would handle that. That's how our family would handle it.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Hugh, I made a comment last hour. I want to
see if you agree or disagree. I said, I felt
better by how the Seahawks game went because the offense
was the one that exploded. And I feel like the
defense overall is a better unit than the offense, and
I feel they will get it together, and I feel
better than had we lost a thirteen to ten, knockdown,
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drag out fight type.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Game where you're really concerned about the offense. Would you
agree with that?
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Yeah, I think that's a rational take. I mean, what's
the most important thing that a football organization can do,
arguably find your quarterback, right, And I think there's a
lot of evidence that's pouring in that a fresh twenty
eight year old check his birthday. You know, Sam Darnold
has several more good years in his physical prime. Uh,
(06:00):
he's learning how to play the game.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You know, he's a skilled guy.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
He's he's got the leadership and and so if you
want to if you want to say there's a reason
to leave that stadium, it's like, man, we might have
our dude like for like you know significant you know,
maybe a five year quarterback here or possibly more, but
you know, three four, five, six years guys. So yeah,
I think that's rational. And I will just say this,
(06:24):
it was awful. I've got a lot of details. I've
been breaking this tape down. Mike McDonald he just got
you know, he got I don't want to say clowned,
but he definitely got out coached. He got out processed
by Baker Mayfield in terms of Baker Mayfield's recognition and
and uh, you know, you know, there's just a like
(06:47):
like a litany every single thing that can go wrong.
And pass defense went wrong, and I mean literally man
to man breakdowns, zone breakdowns, two deep defense breakdowns, single
high breakdowns, uh past past uh normal four man rush nonexistent.
When you blitz, I mean, I gotta, I gotta photo.
(07:08):
I'll send you guys. Uh uh. The Seahawks run a
two D two deep three under zone, Like what in
the hell that's gotta be a freaking bust.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And and so I looked it up in the NFL.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Well, there's actually been five of them this year in
all the NFL, and twenty three last time, so so
less than one play per season per team. So that
is a very uncommon deal. But if you're gonna run
I know this, if you're I've never been on team
that played a two deep three under. There's just too
many holes, right, you got to play zone with seven,
maybe with six, but you never play zone with five guys.
(07:39):
But if you're gonna do it, you better get home
and get home quick. And Tyo tyo Kotta gets blocked
by the running back and you got you got our
our boy, tyree. He he runs up the back of
Okada and runs right. It's like the butt fumble. It's
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like two dogs.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Humping at the dog park, like like, don't take that picture. Yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry,
you know what.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
And it was a.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Seventeen yard game, that's how bad they played, you know.
And so yeah, it was just, uh you know, you
got to laugh to keep from crying about how poor
they were on past eense.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Well, and there's a couple of things for me.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
First of all, I want to get you to specifically
talk about what the hell happened on that fifty seven
yard bomb to a Mecca.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah, I mean, give him credit.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
This guy's a stud seven for seven, a buck sixty
three couple of touchdowns. And I agree with what you
said this morning about Baker being maybe the MVP of
the NFL. I was gonna ask you Friday if we
had he on, which we did not because of Baseball
who the MVP is. And we may have just seen
the guy honestly on on on Sunday in Seattle, but
that play specifically, and then number two, with Dick's edery
on the show, we say, look injuries to the secondary.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Which I get.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But I also believed and have thought for a while
now that the star of the show was supposed to
be McDonald's scheme in some ways, regardless of who's out there.
And I realized that there's at some point you're gonna
lose so many guys it's gonna be impossible. But I'm
not as apt as Dick is to give injuries to
give him a pass because how banged up they were yesterday.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Well, there's there's signs and evidence to support both viewpoints.
You know that you met asked about the fifty seven
yard er. Yes, yes, okay, So the Seahawks were rolling
the coverage to be on top of Pritcher to help him.
That was on a three receivers of trips, right, and
you're getting you're trying to get Kobe Bryant over the
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top and Okada mostly to the middle of the field,
but that leaves Josh job on the single side where
a Mecca was the ex receiver. He's running the sixth step, three,
third inside step out and up.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And it's just one on one, and you.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Know, he gets behind and Okada is he is what's
called poaching. He's looking for the third inside guy from
the opposite side of the formation, so he's not in
a position to help. And then you've got a five
step drop from shotgun by Baker Mayfield plus three hitches
that is the equivalent of seven steps from under the center.
That is a exceedingly long time to hold the ball.
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And he wasn't even close to being protected. It just
wide open. He wasn't close to being touched. And from
left to right, the pass rushers were Nuoso, Leonard Williams,
Murphy and boy A Maffey. Yeah, I mean that's arguable
League four, that's your four best. And they didn't they
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I mean, they didn't even get where where they could
breathe on him.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
You know, you could have had a golf driver in
their hands and they couldn't have touched Bake. Baker Mayfield
reaching one hand out with a driver. You know, when
you do your penalty strokes and you got to go
to two club links. They weren't even two club links
from Baker Mayfield and so yeah, you know, just major break.
So yes, there was a scheme component trying to help
(11:02):
a you know, a deep reserve corner, but there was
there was other elements as well, and you know, but yeah,
just on and on how Tampa Bay was able to
take advantage.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah, you were watching the replay right now.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Isn't that Buccaneers line is supposed to be banged up
by the way I look at their tackle?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, Strisian Wirf was on that they're not the six guys.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, the right guard, Tristan Wurf's the left tackle
is a very good player, but he's not on the
p pup. He hadn't been his point performed as well
the right tackles. In his sixth year. His grade by
PFF had declined in every single season down to thirty six.
Going into this game. Wow, I mean, how do you
not get something going? And then now he's got to
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get exotic McDonald because he's not getting a good stable
four man rush. So things like you know when I
said Baker Mayfield out processed. I'll just give you two
quick examples. So they try and do what's called a
Tampa two where the Seahawks are and two deep and
then there's a whole player in the middle, usually the
middle linebacker, but they Mike McDonald wants confused Baker Mayfield
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a little bit. So he's gonna have Ernest Jones who's
in the middle. He's gonna run out to the to
the over the slot what's called the curl zone. And
you're gonna have Kobe Bryant who's over the curl. He's
gonna fly to the middle to be the Tampa two
hole player. Well, there's gonna be a moment where they're
out of position.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Guess what.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
They just turn around. They do a seven yard hits
Baker me for Boom, just pops it on him. It
was as if he was in the huddle. There's another one, uh,
the second one of two that I'll describe what's called
cover two invert. You're rolling the coverage to one side
and then to this strong side to Baker Mayfield's left.
You're taking the corner Josh Job. He's lined up like
a cornerback, but he's gonna run back to play, become
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the new safety.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
He's gonna play like a safety.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
And then Tyo Kotta, who's over the slot, he's gonna
run out and he's gonna be I put the term
cloud in in quotation marks because safeties aren't can't be cloud.
But he's gonna he's gonna take the role. So you're
you're inverting the responsibilities of the corner in the safety. Well,
if you had said, you know in jeopardy, you know
in jeopardy where they have mostly they just pop out
the answers and as fast as you can get him out,
(13:11):
that's the guy who wins. But they have what the
double Jeopardy round where one person take gets to take
a long time. So if they could have said freeze
and then cont over with a whiteboard on the sideline
and said, okay, Baker, they're about to do cover two invert.
How do you think we want to handle They said, well,
how about if we just take this receiver, widen him out,
then do a little coral right there, because we'll be
(13:32):
right in that little crease where they're momentarily out of position.
So yep, yeah, let's do that, and that's their double
Jeopardy answer, Well, guess what, now, snap the balls.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
That's what happens.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
Like they were just every time, you know, when one
of the few times that Ernest Jones, who's usually the
middle linebacker, they go three D three under. He's the
coal flat player. I mean, he's the widest underneath player.
He's hardly ever in that position. Well, they do a
brute leg out to the left, and they got Kaitot
going into the middle and then back out to the sale.
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And then he said, well, who's the guy who should
have been covered, Well it's Ernest Jones. Well, Ernest Jones
is not the middle hook player. He's the curl flat player,
which he never is. Well, he covers it like trash.
And and it's like it's like the Tampa Bay knew,
well the one time they're gonna take their middle linebacker
and take play him not in the middle, that he's
gonna be a curl flat player. Well, let's let's run
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a little sale. Let's go in like a boomerang, just
like a boomerang route.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
The uh more.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
You know, if you're drawing it up on the on
the on the on the playground, run a boomerang route
and and it's wide open kdot and gets twenty seven
yards like it was just that type every day. So
when Mike McDonald's stepped up to that podium and he said,
put this on me, yeah, uh uh, this is.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
This is all on me. I've got to be better.
I could. He knows all that stuff happened.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
I wish the guy at Montleake would take that kind
of accountability. But that's a topic for another segment. But
my credit Mike McDonald he knew that that Tampa Bay
and their their rookie, their first year offensive coordinator, and
a veteran quarterback who if you had to vote tomorrow,
the rationale would say that Baker Mayfield is the MVP
of the NFL because he's one of uh, there's no
(15:10):
undefeated teams. He's a he's the quarterback of a four
and one team. All four of those wins have been
fourth quarter comebacks, and three of them have been in
the last minute. You tell me, present to me an
argument of somebody who deserves the MVP more than Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
We saw all of that yesterday.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
First good chance to see Nick em Emon worry before
he went out.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Eighty one PFF grade second highest on the defense.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Do you agree with that grade?
Speaker 8 (15:35):
No? Okay, no, I think there's too many times, and
I don't know that you know PF. I think PFF
gets more right than wrong. I cite them. I don't
want to talk out of both sides of my mouth,
but I don't know what they know. There may be
some guy who played nose tackle on college and he's
doing the grading there. There there was too many times
where you know they hit they hit. I mentioned twenty
seven yards. He's what's called hold out your five fingers
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as wide as they can. You're you're in finger and
your ring finger are the curl defenders in a five
under two deep zone and they go right over the
top of the ring finger the curl zone player, which
is Iman Worri for a twenty seven yard they just
dangled the cheese in front of him and they get
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a big completion behind him on the Aughton twenty five
yard or at the end of the At the end
of the game, the man and man coverage Ernest Jones
and Emon worry they're trying to pass off. They didn't
play a lot of man and man, but but Ernest
Jones was covered number three, which is counting outside in
and and Emon Warri was covering cover number two. Number
three goes to the outside, and so the the communication
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is Ernest Jones is saying, hey, I'll take final number three.
I'm inside, so I'll just take the inside guy. You
take the outside guy. Well they didn't, they didn't communicate that.
So Aughton is wide open his man and man, and
you got the tight end totally uncovered in the flat.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Nobody nobody within twenty.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Yards of them, and and and there's other there's other
instances of e man woorr just kind of being out
of position. So, look, it wasn't awful, but I would
not what do you say it was great?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Eighty one one?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, No Aaron Murphy on the defense.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
No nope, okay, okay not me, nope, yeah, I'm sensing
no okay here like no, well no, I.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Thought, look, I don't think it was egregiously bad, but
I think there he was in the spot of you
know a lot of guys were you know, like remember
the tight.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
End, the ted end screen. I just got to get
this dick.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Remember how how how upset I was about the tight
end screen and you know the miss tackles well, tyle Cotta. Actually,
you know, people are saying he missed the tackle. Well,
the offensive tackles, the screen is out there, he's got
to force it back in inside.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
So unless you know, if Troy Paulamalo had been.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Out there, he probably would have sniffed it out and
maybe beat the tackle just by his recognition. But but
I wouldn't say Okata missed the tackle.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
He forced it back in the guy Josh job, dude,
you got you are the one guy corner.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
You have got to keep your outside shoulder free, don't
jump inside the block. And so his fundamental mistake out
there on the perimeter, that's that's a four point mistake
because because Tampa would have been kicking a field goal,
but instead they get the first down on third and fourteen,
they get a seventeen yard game and they go down
and score touchdown.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So just the fundamentals.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
You watch that tape and people like that stuff I
taught in midget football.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Let me jump in for a second.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Corner outside shoulder free?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
What yeah, let me jump in? What? What? What? What
do you want?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Let me jump in for a second before you go
because we're up against the clock. Uh, is it time
to shelve the Jalen Milroe thing for a while and
just maybe let him kind of watch and learn here
a little bit.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Well, you know, first of all, it's in pistol. You
got a bad relationship. It should be a sidecar alignment.
You're not optioning off everybody you're blocking, so you should
have an unmanned block to the end. You're going at
the tight end, which I don't like. I like to
go to the open side because the angles are better.
The flow you're going with the quarterbacks non dominant hand.
(19:06):
I mean, let me count the ways that that was
ill designed a misguided both play in its construct and
the call first and ten at the what was it
the forty three you're driving, So it was awful.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It was a bad pitch. You give him a double
minus on the pitch.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
But right now, look he's played three plays, and the
formula that says how many yards do you get based
on the down and distance that defines the success. I've
said it before, I'm not going to do it again.
All three of those plays have been unsuccessful. They actually
haven't even been close to being successful plays. So we're
five weeks into this thing. I have not seen a
single successful play for Milroe. Look, I think you probably
(19:48):
just put this thing in a red shirt category and
just rack it for next year.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Agreed. I agree? All right?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Here we great stuff. We will talk later on. We
got Husky football on Friday, so be prepared. We may
I try to sneaky in somewhere between down front. All right,
So here ready?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
All right? All right, Hugh Mellin's with us. Let's go
back to the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
The update on Josh Naylor, the pitching rotation Tigers Mariners
tomorrow Game three, biggest ballgame the ms have played in
a long damn time. Get to that next from the
Emerald Queen, and then Chiefs and Jaguars at five point
fifteen with Kevin Harlan on the call for.
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Throw the light side.
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This game is time Ladriguez.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
His second run driven ay, and it's a two to
two game of.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
The sixth.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Driving take three.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Guys does come up even again?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Remember when Brent Musburger called the Mariners Yankees series for
ABC in ninety five.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Griffis coming around?
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Speaker 5 (21:32):
What I mean? Andrews? How old are you? By the way,
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I was native two right when the Mariners played the Yankees, which,
by the way, the thirty year anniversary of the Eggar
double is in two days.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Oh so was that? Who that?
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Give me the day?
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Week?
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Okay?
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of hearing about it? Now wait until Wednesday? All right,
Wait until the only thing that is saving our asses
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Speaker 6 (22:01):
What if we win the Division series on the same
to walk off double in the same way.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
To walk off double. That's right.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Well, here's the reason why I bring it up, because
that highlight you heard there from Julio courtesy of fs won.
He's kind of becoming Remember when they showed Reggie Jackson
in the stands and musperg there was mister ruck tubbar
Reggie Jackson. Well, Julio is kind of becoming mister ruk Tubbar.
He's got a nine to forty one OPS in seven
(22:28):
playoff games. Five RBIs the bomb obviously in Game one.
I mean, for as much as we used to bust
his balls about not delivering in the clutch in the
regular season, which I thought was warranted, the numbers beared
that out at some points in time. Better second half,
no doubt. But he's kind of turning into a little
bit of a mister ruk tubbar for this baseball team.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Not yeah, I mean short sample size, but yeah, very short.
I will say that, you know, I was I was
not a fan of the people that were ripping Julio
the first three months of the season, And on simple
reason I was like, Okay, I'm I just know when
July hits, he's gonna hit.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Right, But what is ripping Julio mean?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Because I feel like there's a segment of the fan
base in town and I'm not saying that you're a
part of it.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Maybe you are, maybe you'll admit that you're a part
of it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I don't know that says anything that even acknowledges shortcomings
of a player means that you're killing me. No, no, no,
Because the numbers beared of cars. He wasn't playing well,
he wasn't hitting the ball. People talked about his defense
because that was the best part of his game by far,
and as you said, he's got a history in the
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second half of.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
The year of turning it on.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
But I almost feel like, hey, these numbers are right
in front of our fat face and just look at
these numbers.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Oh you're a hater, right, I mean, if.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Yeah, is that?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
I think it's the people that that didn't think he's
a star player, and I'm like, really, are you kidding me? No,
he didn't deserve to be in the All Star Game
this year, correct, But he is a star. I would
go so far as to say he's a superstar, and
he is showing that in this playoffs so far.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, well, in a lot of ways. Superstars are made
in the playoffs. Yes, and he has been great in
the playoffs. I mean, look, I mean him and cal Raley,
good god man, eight for eighteen. The rest of the
team is six for fifty two. Now, two of those
six are Polanco bombs, right, But you got thirteen total
(24:24):
bases from cal Raley and Julio in two games here
the rest of the team's got twelve in the other
fifty two abs. So this is what is supposed to happen. Guys,
Your superstars are supposed to carry you in the most
important games of the year, and Julio and cal are
carrying this baseball team right now. I mean, obviously Polanco
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was money yesterday. But you know, by the way, the
whole thing with Polanco, I think we got to apologize
to Jerry. I mean, I will, I will I apologize
to Jerry. I lost my freaking mind. I was like,
what are we doing when they signed him? I was
at the five twenty bar and Grill couldn't believe it.
They hadn't done any thing. This is the biggest free
agent money ticket they gave out was the seven and
a half million they gave out to Hore Polaco. Now,
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if I want to be a complete jerk about it,
which I don't, but if I did want to be
a jerk about it, I'd say I don't think even
Jerry saw this coming without I.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Mean, he became a Mariner legend in one night. We
will always remember for as long as we lived, for
Hay Polanco game, just like we remember the Least Soho game,
the Doug Strange game. Guys that aren't the big time
names that win playoff games, or in Doug Strange case,
win a huge game to help get them in the playoffs.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
The difference, though, is that this is kind of who
Polonco has been for the majority of his career, and
it wasn't and it wasn't just like this, this Yesterday's
game kind of came out of nowhere and he was
an unnamed.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Whoa where did this come from?
Speaker 9 (25:46):
He has been in minus one month, the Mariner's second
best hitter all season.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
This year, right, But not when we were ripping him
in March.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
No, No, But in last year and last year he
was terrible, like and I think everyone would admit that,
but up until last year he was a really really
good player.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
I think the problem that we had was that if
you go back to twenty twenty one, I mean, look
at his war. It went from four point eight to
two point eight to two point zero. Then the Mariners
picked him up and it went to one point four.
So it would be natural to say, dude's done.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Man, no, dude is washed.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's not I mean, maybe that was the problem you had.
The problem I had is that that was all they did.
That's the problem I right, right. I mean, look, you
want to give Placo seven and a half million, you
want to piss away seven point five million.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
I don't care. Do whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
There's no salary cap and baseball go flush it down
the crapper for all I care, honestly, go go put
it in a zip lock bag and watch your flog
down Elliott Bay.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I don't give it damn what you do with your money. Yeah,
but that was all they did. That's all they did,
And that was the issue.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
That's what got me so fired up over the offseason
is that, look, you want to give him a contract, fine,
but do this along with another guy or two other
guys instead of hey we're gonna go get rowdy freakin' Talez,
who couldn't last two months to play first base for US,
and we're gonna make Hore Polanco our starting third baseman
when the guy had barely played third at all in
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his entire career. So at the time it looked ridiculous
that this is all you're gonna do.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Are you a kid me? This is how you're gonna
repay the fan base.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
This is how you're gonna make up for blowing a
ten game lead, is by going out and getting these guys.
That's how you made the baseball team better. And instead
they got Polaco. He was great, They addressed their routing
to less situation as soon as possible, got rid of him,
and then traded for Naylor, Suarez and Ferguson.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
I was that was really the first time that I
got on the ownership because I've been a defender of
the ownership for the most part in these offseasons, but
this February really ticked me off.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
I was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 6 (27:48):
You're this close and you're gonna go into the season
without a first basement or without a third basement, and
you're bringing Polanco back to play third.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
I mean, I just didn't get it, But it's paid off.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All Right, we're gonna break some techs four nine, four
five one. A lot of people weighing in on the
Josh Naylor conundrum if they do think it's a conundrum.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
And then we got football
Speaker 2 (28:07):
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tied one game a piece the Alds Game three, the
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Jack Flaherty and three oneh eight pm. Casey Miyes will
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(01:06):
but it should be Bryce Miller.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Josh Naylor uh not in Detroit with the team as
of this minute. His wife is expecting a baby and
he's with his family.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
They'll score between the Dodgers and the Phillies through four
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Speaker 7 (01:21):
Blake Snell on the mound there.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
The Blue Jays scored twenty three runs in their first
two games of the Division Series, the most in baseball history,
slamming the Yankees yesterday, Game three tomorrow in New York.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What else youg go on NFL football? The Seahawks lose
yesterday thirty eight thirty five. More on that with humellon
in a second. I'm a Pete Carroll releasing linebacker Jermaine
Pratt after just four games after the Raiders began one
in four. Patriots lost running back Antonio Gibson. He's out
for the year with a torn a cl.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
You'd have Michigan game nine am Pacific time, kickoff at
the Big Els.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You going, by the way, No.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
We'll be here on pregame at six am in the Rue, so.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
That'll be fun.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Maybe am big noon Fox game and then the Lions
corner Terry and Arnold is out for quote a long time,
according to head coach Dan Campbell, with the shoulder.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Injury and the kraken. We'll start the season with the
Ducks on Thursday night. We'll be up at Tom's watch
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to three KJRFM. All right, joining us right now on
the radio program a little more at four. You'll hear
him tomorrow with Ian Fernassa on Hardcore Football. It was
(02:29):
on the morning show today, and uh, you know, I
was pleased, I think with what we got out of
Hugh this morning.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
But it was in the postgame show.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
It kind of hot.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Actually, yeah, let's not go crazy. I thought he was
just okay, all right.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
You did not listen to the postgame show because.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I know where you were. That's correct, you were at
the baseballs. I did not hear the postgames.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Actually I was at Jimmy's with you, but I couldn't
hear the But I I I thought Hugh, you were
excellent this morning and excellent last night, but I want
a little more and a little more for But hey,
before we talk football, can we ask you about making babies?
Can you chime in on that for a second, because
(03:07):
you because you've made two of them, he's an expert.
You've made two of them, just two, but yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Two that you know of Josh Josh Naylor.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That was German Gel and.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I what happened there.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But Josh Naylor is not with the team right now
because his wife is having a baby. We don't know
if he's going to be there or not for Game
three tomorrow. How do you process that, as an ex
professional athlete and a sports fan of this baseball team,
that the Mariners may lose one of their most important
players because his wife's having a kid.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
Uh, well, first of all, I would just say everything's personal,
and you know, you just kind of stay in your lane.
And so what I expressed to you my opinion. I'm
not judging anybody else. I I had, I knew that
I was pretty firm about what my answer would be.
But I I asked my wife, my only wife, and
we've got two kids, and and I was at her
(04:02):
side for both of the birth of both of them,
And I said, Hey, if I was still playing and
I had a playoff game and I had to be
on the road and miss the birth of our first son,
how would you feel about that? And her response is, well,
I think it would be more important for you to
be playing and just get to me as fast as
(04:23):
you possibly can. And I thought that's what she would say.
I wasn't certain, and that's what I would say. I
would I would look, unless you're gonna tell me there's
a really really high probability of issues happening with the
baby or the mom and not you know, look, I
know that's a possibility. You can't say it's it's certainly
something more than zero. But for me, I would play,
(04:47):
and then I would want to just get there as
soon as possible, or even if you're just there for
a couple of hours, you know, the birth, be with
your bride, be with your your baby, and then get
on a plane and go fulfill your duty. Now, undoubtedly
there's people who do not agree with that, and I
(05:08):
respect the opposite take. Yeah, but you asked me how
we would handle that. That's how our family would handle it.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Hugh, I made a comment last hour. I want to
see if you agree or disagree. I said, I felt
better by how the Seahawks game went because the offense
was the one that exploded. And I feel like the
defense overall is a better unit than the offense, and
I feel they will get it together, and I feel
better than had we lost a thirteen to ten, knockdown,
(05:37):
drag out fight type.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Game where you're really concerned about the offense. Would you
agree with that?
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Yeah, I think that's a rational take. I mean, what's
the most important thing that a football organization can do,
arguably find your quarterback, right, And I think there's a
lot of evidence that's pouring in that a fresh twenty
eight year old check his birthday. You know, Sam Darnold
has several more good years in his physical prime. Uh,
(06:00):
he's learning how to play the game.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You know, he's a skilled guy.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
He's he's got the leadership and and so if you
want to if you want to say there's a reason
to leave that stadium, it's like, man, we might have
our dude like for like you know significant you know,
maybe a five year quarterback here or possibly more, but
you know, three four, five, six years guys. So yeah,
I think that's rational. And I will just say this,
(06:24):
it was awful. I've got a lot of details. I've
been breaking this tape down. Mike McDonald he just got
you know, he got I don't want to say clowned,
but he definitely got out coached. He got out processed
by Baker Mayfield in terms of Baker Mayfield's recognition and
and uh, you know, you know, there's just a like
(06:47):
like a litany every single thing that can go wrong.
And pass defense went wrong, and I mean literally man
to man breakdowns, zone breakdowns, two deep defense breakdowns, single
high breakdowns, uh past past uh normal four man rush nonexistent.
When you blitz, I mean, I gotta, I gotta photo.
(07:08):
I'll send you guys. Uh uh. The Seahawks run a
two D two deep three under zone, Like what in
the hell that's gotta be a freaking bust.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
And and so I looked it up in the NFL.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Well, there's actually been five of them this year in
all the NFL, and twenty three last time, so so
less than one play per season per team. So that
is a very uncommon deal. But if you're gonna run
I know this, if you're I've never been on team
that played a two deep three under. There's just too
many holes, right, you got to play zone with seven,
maybe with six, but you never play zone with five guys.
(07:39):
But if you're gonna do it, you better get home
and get home quick. And Tyo tyo Kotta gets blocked
by the running back and you got you got our
our boy, tyree. He he runs up the back of
Okada and runs right. It's like the butt fumble. It's
(07:59):
like two dogs.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Humping at the dog park, like like, don't take that picture. Yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry,
you know what.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
And it was a.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Seventeen yard game, that's how bad they played, you know.
And so yeah, it was just, uh you know, you
got to laugh to keep from crying about how poor
they were on past eense.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Well, and there's a couple of things for me.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
First of all, I want to get you to specifically
talk about what the hell happened on that fifty seven
yard bomb to a Mecca.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah, I mean, give him credit.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
This guy's a stud seven for seven, a buck sixty
three couple of touchdowns. And I agree with what you
said this morning about Baker being maybe the MVP of
the NFL. I was gonna ask you Friday if we
had he on, which we did not because of Baseball
who the MVP is. And we may have just seen
the guy honestly on on on Sunday in Seattle, but
that play specifically, and then number two, with Dick's edery
on the show, we say, look injuries to the secondary.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Which I get.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But I also believed and have thought for a while
now that the star of the show was supposed to
be McDonald's scheme in some ways, regardless of who's out there.
And I realized that there's at some point you're gonna
lose so many guys it's gonna be impossible. But I'm
not as apt as Dick is to give injuries to
give him a pass because how banged up they were yesterday.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Well, there's there's signs and evidence to support both viewpoints.
You know that you met asked about the fifty seven
yard er. Yes, yes, okay, So the Seahawks were rolling
the coverage to be on top of Pritcher to help him.
That was on a three receivers of trips, right, and
you're getting you're trying to get Kobe Bryant over the
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top and Okada mostly to the middle of the field,
but that leaves Josh job on the single side where
a Mecca was the ex receiver. He's running the sixth step, three,
third inside step out and up.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And it's just one on one, and you.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Know, he gets behind and Okada is he is what's
called poaching. He's looking for the third inside guy from
the opposite side of the formation, so he's not in
a position to help. And then you've got a five
step drop from shotgun by Baker Mayfield plus three hitches
that is the equivalent of seven steps from under the center.
That is a exceedingly long time to hold the ball.
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And he wasn't even close to being protected. It just
wide open. He wasn't close to being touched. And from
left to right, the pass rushers were Nuoso, Leonard Williams,
Murphy and boy A Maffey. Yeah, I mean that's arguable
League four, that's your four best. And they didn't they
(10:36):
I mean, they didn't even get where where they could
breathe on him.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
You know, you could have had a golf driver in
their hands and they couldn't have touched Bake. Baker Mayfield
reaching one hand out with a driver. You know, when
you do your penalty strokes and you got to go
to two club links. They weren't even two club links
from Baker Mayfield and so yeah, you know, just major break.
So yes, there was a scheme component trying to help
(11:02):
a you know, a deep reserve corner, but there was
there was other elements as well, and you know, but yeah,
just on and on how Tampa Bay was able to
take advantage.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah, you were watching the replay right now.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Isn't that Buccaneers line is supposed to be banged up
by the way I look at their tackle?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, Strisian Wirf was on that they're not the six guys.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, the right guard, Tristan Wurf's the left tackle
is a very good player, but he's not on the
p pup. He hadn't been his point performed as well
the right tackles. In his sixth year. His grade by
PFF had declined in every single season down to thirty six.
Going into this game. Wow, I mean, how do you
not get something going? And then now he's got to
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get exotic McDonald because he's not getting a good stable
four man rush. So things like you know when I
said Baker Mayfield out processed. I'll just give you two
quick examples. So they try and do what's called a
Tampa two where the Seahawks are and two deep and
then there's a whole player in the middle, usually the
middle linebacker, but they Mike McDonald wants confused Baker Mayfield
(12:07):
a little bit. So he's gonna have Ernest Jones who's
in the middle. He's gonna run out to the to
the over the slot what's called the curl zone. And
you're gonna have Kobe Bryant who's over the curl. He's
gonna fly to the middle to be the Tampa two
hole player. Well, there's gonna be a moment where they're
out of position.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Guess what.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
They just turn around. They do a seven yard hits
Baker me for Boom, just pops it on him. It
was as if he was in the huddle. There's another one, uh,
the second one of two that I'll describe what's called
cover two invert. You're rolling the coverage to one side
and then to this strong side to Baker Mayfield's left.
You're taking the corner Josh Job. He's lined up like
a cornerback, but he's gonna run back to play, become
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the new safety.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
He's gonna play like a safety.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
And then Tyo Kotta, who's over the slot, he's gonna
run out and he's gonna be I put the term
cloud in in quotation marks because safeties aren't can't be cloud.
But he's gonna he's gonna take the role. So you're
you're inverting the responsibilities of the corner in the safety. Well,
if you had said, you know in jeopardy, you know
in jeopardy where they have mostly they just pop out
the answers and as fast as you can get him out,
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that's the guy who wins. But they have what the
double Jeopardy round where one person take gets to take
a long time. So if they could have said freeze
and then cont over with a whiteboard on the sideline
and said, okay, Baker, they're about to do cover two invert.
How do you think we want to handle They said, well,
how about if we just take this receiver, widen him out,
then do a little coral right there, because we'll be
(13:32):
right in that little crease where they're momentarily out of position.
So yep, yeah, let's do that, and that's their double
Jeopardy answer, Well, guess what, now, snap the balls.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
That's what happens.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
Like they were just every time, you know, when one
of the few times that Ernest Jones, who's usually the
middle linebacker, they go three D three under. He's the
coal flat player. I mean, he's the widest underneath player.
He's hardly ever in that position. Well, they do a
brute leg out to the left, and they got Kaitot
going into the middle and then back out to the sale.
(14:02):
And then he said, well, who's the guy who should
have been covered, Well it's Ernest Jones. Well, Ernest Jones
is not the middle hook player. He's the curl flat player,
which he never is. Well, he covers it like trash.
And and it's like it's like the Tampa Bay knew,
well the one time they're gonna take their middle linebacker
and take play him not in the middle, that he's
gonna be a curl flat player. Well, let's let's run
(14:23):
a little sale. Let's go in like a boomerang, just
like a boomerang route.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
The uh more.
Speaker 8 (14:28):
You know, if you're drawing it up on the on
the on the on the playground, run a boomerang route
and and it's wide open kdot and gets twenty seven
yards like it was just that type every day. So
when Mike McDonald's stepped up to that podium and he said,
put this on me, yeah, uh uh, this is.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
This is all on me. I've got to be better.
I could. He knows all that stuff happened.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
I wish the guy at Montleake would take that kind
of accountability. But that's a topic for another segment. But
my credit Mike McDonald he knew that that Tampa Bay
and their their rookie, their first year offensive coordinator, and
a veteran quarterback who if you had to vote tomorrow,
the rationale would say that Baker Mayfield is the MVP
of the NFL because he's one of uh, there's no
(15:10):
undefeated teams. He's a he's the quarterback of a four
and one team. All four of those wins have been
fourth quarter comebacks, and three of them have been in
the last minute. You tell me, present to me an
argument of somebody who deserves the MVP more than Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
We saw all of that yesterday.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
First good chance to see Nick em Emon worry before
he went out.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Eighty one PFF grade second highest on the defense.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Do you agree with that grade?
Speaker 8 (15:35):
No? Okay, no, I think there's too many times, and
I don't know that you know PF. I think PFF
gets more right than wrong. I cite them. I don't
want to talk out of both sides of my mouth,
but I don't know what they know. There may be
some guy who played nose tackle on college and he's
doing the grading there. There there was too many times
where you know they hit they hit. I mentioned twenty
seven yards. He's what's called hold out your five fingers
(15:57):
as wide as they can. You're you're in finger and
your ring finger are the curl defenders in a five
under two deep zone and they go right over the
top of the ring finger the curl zone player, which
is Iman Worri for a twenty seven yard they just
dangled the cheese in front of him and they get
(16:18):
a big completion behind him on the Aughton twenty five
yard or at the end of the At the end
of the game, the man and man coverage Ernest Jones
and Emon worry they're trying to pass off. They didn't
play a lot of man and man, but but Ernest
Jones was covered number three, which is counting outside in
and and Emon Warri was covering cover number two. Number
three goes to the outside, and so the the communication
(16:41):
is Ernest Jones is saying, hey, I'll take final number three.
I'm inside, so I'll just take the inside guy. You
take the outside guy. Well they didn't, they didn't communicate that.
So Aughton is wide open his man and man, and
you got the tight end totally uncovered in the flat.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Nobody nobody within twenty.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Yards of them, and and and there's other there's other
instances of e man woorr just kind of being out
of position. So, look, it wasn't awful, but I would
not what do you say it was great?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Eighty one one?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, No Aaron Murphy on the defense.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
No nope, okay, okay not me, nope, yeah, I'm sensing
no okay here like no, well no, I.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Thought, look, I don't think it was egregiously bad, but
I think there he was in the spot of you
know a lot of guys were you know, like remember
the tight.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
End, the ted end screen. I just got to get
this dick.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Remember how how how upset I was about the tight
end screen and you know the miss tackles well, tyle Cotta. Actually,
you know, people are saying he missed the tackle. Well,
the offensive tackles, the screen is out there, he's got
to force it back in inside.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
So unless you know, if Troy Paulamalo had been.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Out there, he probably would have sniffed it out and
maybe beat the tackle just by his recognition. But but
I wouldn't say Okata missed the tackle.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
He forced it back in the guy Josh job, dude,
you got you are the one guy corner.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
You have got to keep your outside shoulder free, don't
jump inside the block. And so his fundamental mistake out
there on the perimeter, that's that's a four point mistake
because because Tampa would have been kicking a field goal,
but instead they get the first down on third and fourteen,
they get a seventeen yard game and they go down
and score touchdown.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So just the fundamentals.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
You watch that tape and people like that stuff I
taught in midget football.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Let me jump in for a second.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Corner outside shoulder free?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
What yeah, let me jump in? What? What? What? What
do you want?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Let me jump in for a second before you go
because we're up against the clock. Uh, is it time
to shelve the Jalen Milroe thing for a while and
just maybe let him kind of watch and learn here
a little bit.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Well, you know, first of all, it's in pistol. You
got a bad relationship. It should be a sidecar alignment.
You're not optioning off everybody you're blocking, so you should
have an unmanned block to the end. You're going at
the tight end, which I don't like. I like to
go to the open side because the angles are better.
The flow you're going with the quarterbacks non dominant hand.
(19:06):
I mean, let me count the ways that that was
ill designed a misguided both play in its construct and
the call first and ten at the what was it
the forty three you're driving, So it was awful.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It was a bad pitch. You give him a double
minus on the pitch.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
But right now, look he's played three plays, and the
formula that says how many yards do you get based
on the down and distance that defines the success. I've
said it before, I'm not going to do it again.
All three of those plays have been unsuccessful. They actually
haven't even been close to being successful plays. So we're
five weeks into this thing. I have not seen a
single successful play for Milroe. Look, I think you probably
(19:48):
just put this thing in a red shirt category and
just rack it for next year.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Agreed. I agree? All right?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Here we great stuff. We will talk later on. We
got Husky football on Friday, so be prepared. We may
I try to sneaky in somewhere between down front. All right,
So here ready?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
All right? All right, Hugh Mellin's with us. Let's go
back to the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
The update on Josh Naylor, the pitching rotation Tigers Mariners
tomorrow Game three, biggest ballgame the ms have played in
a long damn time. Get to that next from the
Emerald Queen, and then Chiefs and Jaguars at five point
fifteen with Kevin Harlan on the call for.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
West Wood One. Right here on ninety three three KJRFM, This.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
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Speaker 4 (20:46):
Rodriguez in the center field, backing his meadows at the wall,
Rodriguez strikes first first Seattle, let's want nothing, And now
it's Rodriguez with a Rosarina third and Raleigh at five first.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Throw the light side.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
This game is time Ladriguez.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
His second run driven ay, and it's a two to
two game of.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
The sixth.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Driving take three.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Guys does come up even again?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Remember when Brent Musburger called the Mariners Yankees series for
ABC in ninety five.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Griffis coming around?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
That's right, Uh, barnetil the corners nothing as a chop bottles?
Speaker 5 (21:32):
What I mean? Andrews? How old are you? By the way,
twenty eight? You're twenty eight? I see you were negative too.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I was native two right when the Mariners played the Yankees, which,
by the way, the thirty year anniversary of the Eggar
double is in two days.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Oh so was that? Who that?
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Give me the day?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Week?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Similar?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Get that ready for fun with audio?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
October eighth of nineteen ninety five. You think you're tired
of hearing about it? Now wait until Wednesday? All right,
Wait until the only thing that is saving our asses
that that game is into and not at T mobile.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
What if we win the Division series on the same
to walk off double in the same way.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
To walk off double. That's right.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Well, here's the reason why I bring it up, because
that highlight you heard there from Julio courtesy of fs won.
He's kind of becoming Remember when they showed Reggie Jackson
in the stands and musperg there was mister ruck tubbar
Reggie Jackson. Well, Julio is kind of becoming mister ruk Tubbar.
He's got a nine to forty one OPS in seven
(22:28):
playoff games. Five RBIs the bomb obviously in Game one.
I mean, for as much as we used to bust
his balls about not delivering in the clutch in the
regular season, which I thought was warranted, the numbers beared
that out at some points in time. Better second half,
no doubt. But he's kind of turning into a little
bit of a mister ruk tubbar for this baseball team.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Not yeah, I mean short sample size, but yeah, very short.
I will say that, you know, I was I was
not a fan of the people that were ripping Julio
the first three months of the season, And on simple
reason I was like, Okay, I'm I just know when
July hits, he's gonna hit.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Right, But what is ripping Julio mean?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Because I feel like there's a segment of the fan
base in town and I'm not saying that you're a
part of it.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Maybe you are, maybe you'll admit that you're a part
of it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I don't know that says anything that even acknowledges shortcomings
of a player means that you're killing me. No, no, no,
Because the numbers beared of cars. He wasn't playing well,
he wasn't hitting the ball. People talked about his defense
because that was the best part of his game by far,
and as you said, he's got a history in the
(23:36):
second half of.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
The year of turning it on.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
But I almost feel like, hey, these numbers are right
in front of our fat face and just look at
these numbers.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Oh you're a hater, right, I mean, if.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Yeah, is that?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
I think it's the people that that didn't think he's
a star player, and I'm like, really, are you kidding me? No,
he didn't deserve to be in the All Star Game
this year, correct, But he is a star. I would
go so far as to say he's a superstar, and
he is showing that in this playoffs so far.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, well, in a lot of ways. Superstars are made
in the playoffs. Yes, and he has been great in
the playoffs. I mean, look, I mean him and cal Raley,
good god man, eight for eighteen. The rest of the
team is six for fifty two. Now, two of those
six are Polanco bombs, right, But you got thirteen total
(24:24):
bases from cal Raley and Julio in two games here
the rest of the team's got twelve in the other
fifty two abs. So this is what is supposed to happen. Guys,
Your superstars are supposed to carry you in the most
important games of the year, and Julio and cal are
carrying this baseball team right now. I mean, obviously Polanco
(24:45):
was money yesterday. But you know, by the way, the
whole thing with Polanco, I think we got to apologize
to Jerry. I mean, I will, I will I apologize
to Jerry. I lost my freaking mind. I was like,
what are we doing when they signed him? I was
at the five twenty bar and Grill couldn't believe it.
They hadn't done any thing. This is the biggest free
agent money ticket they gave out was the seven and
a half million they gave out to Hore Polaco. Now,
(25:08):
if I want to be a complete jerk about it,
which I don't, but if I did want to be
a jerk about it, I'd say I don't think even
Jerry saw this coming without I.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Mean, he became a Mariner legend in one night. We
will always remember for as long as we lived, for
Hay Polanco game, just like we remember the Least Soho game,
the Doug Strange game. Guys that aren't the big time
names that win playoff games, or in Doug Strange case,
win a huge game to help get them in the playoffs.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
The difference, though, is that this is kind of who
Polonco has been for the majority of his career, and
it wasn't and it wasn't just like this, this Yesterday's
game kind of came out of nowhere and he was
an unnamed.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Whoa where did this come from?
Speaker 9 (25:46):
He has been in minus one month, the Mariner's second
best hitter all season.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
This year, right, But not when we were ripping him
in March.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
No, No, But in last year and last year he
was terrible, like and I think everyone would admit that,
but up until last year he was a really really
good player.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
I think the problem that we had was that if
you go back to twenty twenty one, I mean, look
at his war. It went from four point eight to
two point eight to two point zero. Then the Mariners
picked him up and it went to one point four.
So it would be natural to say, dude's done.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Man, no, dude is washed.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's not I mean, maybe that was the problem you had.
The problem I had is that that was all they did.
That's the problem I right, right. I mean, look, you
want to give Placo seven and a half million, you
want to piss away seven point five million.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
I don't care. Do whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
There's no salary cap and baseball go flush it down
the crapper for all I care, honestly, go go put
it in a zip lock bag and watch your flog
down Elliott Bay.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I don't give it damn what you do with your money. Yeah,
but that was all they did. That's all they did,
And that was the issue.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
That's what got me so fired up over the offseason
is that, look, you want to give him a contract, fine,
but do this along with another guy or two other
guys instead of hey we're gonna go get rowdy freakin' Talez,
who couldn't last two months to play first base for US,
and we're gonna make Hore Polanco our starting third baseman
when the guy had barely played third at all in
(27:09):
his entire career. So at the time it looked ridiculous
that this is all you're gonna do.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Are you a kid me? This is how you're gonna
repay the fan base.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
This is how you're gonna make up for blowing a
ten game lead, is by going out and getting these guys.
That's how you made the baseball team better. And instead
they got Polaco. He was great, They addressed their routing
to less situation as soon as possible, got rid of him,
and then traded for Naylor, Suarez and Ferguson.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
I was that was really the first time that I
got on the ownership because I've been a defender of
the ownership for the most part in these offseasons, but
this February really ticked me off.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
I was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 6 (27:48):
You're this close and you're gonna go into the season
without a first basement or without a third basement, and
you're bringing Polanco back to play third.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
I mean, I just didn't get it, But it's paid off.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All Right, we're gonna break some techs four nine, four
five one. A lot of people weighing in on the
Josh Naylor conundrum if they do think it's a conundrum.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
And then we got football
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Chiefs Jaguars Kevin Hard and Kurt Warner Westwood one coming
up in five on ninety three three KJRFM
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