January 5, 2026 • 40 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler, Dick Fain, and Jackson Felts react to the Seahawks win over the Niners, the playoffs ahead, and the #1 seed, then react to Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where we are back for the first time this year.
The boys are together, softy, Dick Jackson, Dick, I owe
you fifty dollars. By the way, I don't even remember
you owe me one dollar. So here's forty and i'll
give you nine later on. I love where this is going, Jackson.
I don't remember why it's going this way.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Of course you don't remember.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
The fifty bucks is for the JJ McCarthy over under touchdowns,
which he did not get to God. And the one
dollar that you owe me is you predicted that Kaitlyn
de Bor would be the new coach at Michigan and
that did not happen. So you owe me a dollar.
But I know you well, I owe you ten bucks now,
all right, so just make sure.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I pay up. So there's your forty dollars already.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Good start to the year, Jackson.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
It's a very good start to the year because the
majority of this came from the Emerald Quick Casino of
your Seattle Seahawks winning the NFC West Championship at plus
five point fifty worst odds on the board back in August.
I mean, how ridiculous does that look?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Going back in the MGM and DraftKings and FanDuel. Everybody
had the Seahawks as the longest shot to win the
NFC West and they freaking win the thing by two games.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What it's all said and done.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And that's the cool thing for me, guys about this
year is that this wasn't a Carolina Panthers situation or
a twenty ten Seahawks situation, or remember when Cam Newton
and the Panthers won their division and they went likee
team and one. No, no, no, they went like seven and nine.
They freaking earned this. This is the best division in
the history of the NFL. It is I mean, like
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people say things like that and it's all hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No, there's facts to back it up.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We've never had a division in the NFL where three
teams have won twelve games or more. And for the
Seahawks to be the team that wins that division, they
had to fight their balls off, man, tooth and nail
for everything they got against one of the tougher schedules
in the NFL, definitely one of the tougher division schedules,
if not the toughest division schedule in the National Football League.
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Take on a resurgent nine or teen that hung around,
hung around, hung around, never went away the entire year,
had to go through their place and their house and
break them down in their stadium. And I gotta tell
you what, guys, I don't know if you had the
same sensation oh that I did watching this thing on
Saturday night, all right, And you might think I'm being
kind of creepy here and going in a creepy direction.
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The sensation that I had watching that game. And maybe
it's because Troy y Aikman was calling the game on
TV for the first time since twenty thirteen. I felt
like I was watching the closest thing to the twenty
thirteen Seahawks, with the way the defense was gang tackling,
the way they were running and swarming to the football,
the way they ran the ball on offense with Kennye
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Walker and Zach Starberney, and then on top of that.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
The tone.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Go back and watch the Super Bowl broadcast in twenty thirteen.
It was Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, same two guys
that were on the call on Saturday. And the tone,
the absolute tone that Troy y Aikman took when describing the
defense that we saw on Saturday night was the same
tone that he took in twenty thirteen when the Lob
destroyed Peyton Manning.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And look, I'm not breaking new ground here, guys with
this take.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I understand it that this is a very simple take
by me, and you guys probably I'm sure agree with me.
They played defense the way they played on Saturday Night.
They're gonna win the whole thing. They're gonna win the Lombardi,
They're gonna win a super Bowl. It it's now been
what twelve years since we've had a team in this
town play for a championship, and the championship round enough
time has passed, It's long enough.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Now is the time. And it really does feel like
a little.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Bit to me, Dick and Jackson that whatever timeline John
Schneider had for Mike McDonald, and I have no idea
what his thought was when he hired him.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You know, hey, man, it's good to take a couple
of years. I don't know what he was thinking.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I have no idea, but it feels like whatever that
timeline was for Mike McDonald to have some real success
in Seattle, it kind of feels like it's been accelerated,
Like this is not supposed to be happening in year two.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I think all of us thought when the year began that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
This was going to be a playoff team, right based
on the way their defense played to end the year.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
We did obviously Vegas didn't. I have a seven and
a half win ticket in my pocket. Yes, and I
had the eight and a half and I had the
NFC West.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm totally with you, but all of us thought getting
rid of Gino, going to Sam Darnold. Hey, who knows
how Darnald will play at the minimum. He'll give you
what Gino gave you last year. And if it doesn't
work out. How many times do we say this on
the year. If it doesn't work out, you get a
couple of draft picks, you save some money, you get.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Younger, whatever, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
But the way the defense ended the second half of
last year gave us some hope that this was going
to be a playoff team. I don't think, and I'll
be honest with you, I never saw this coming. I
never saw fourteen and three. I never saw the number
one seed in the NFC. I never saw a defense
right now that is reminding me more of that twenty
thirteen defense than any defense since and the cool thing
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also about Saturday night. We'll get into some details about
the game in a minute. Here, there's two guys on
this football team that have taken a lot of from people,
and deservedly so, by the way, deservedly so. How many
times in this business have we said, look, man, we're
just here to react.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's all we do.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
We just react, right, We react to what we see.
We react to the guys play. And there's been two
guys that we've been debating all year long whether or
not they should be re signed by the Seahawks over
the offseason, and that's Kenny Walker and Tarik Wolan. And
I'm telling you what, both those guys, as I sit
here today, Dick and Jackson, I.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Want them both back on this football team next year,
both of them.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, I've got conflicting feelings about where we're going with
this football team. One side of me says, hey, Mike
McDonald can do the same thing with this defense right
that Pete Carroll did, and that's win it four years
in a row, number one, number one, number one. Like
he has got that ability, and I believe he has
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got the pieces in order to do that. Having said that,
I feel twenty twenty five, twenty six is our opportunity.
There is no Mahmes, there is no Lamar Jackson right now,
and Herbert's offensive line is ravaged that they're not going
to make it. The San Francisco forty nine ers are ravaged.
They're not going to make it. You have checked off,
like three, four, five boxes of teams that potentially could
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have beaten you, just one and there's just one. And
is there a way to get rid of the La Rams,
either by virtue of someone else knocking them off or
having them come here and.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You knock them.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Well, the way is you're playing them at home at Wlomenfield,
where you are a machine. Come playoff time for the
fourth time in franchise history. You have the number one
seed and you have the home field. And we were
talking about this earlier that you know the Hawks are.
What is McDonald's record on the road, fifteen and two overall,
he's played seventeen road games, he's won fifteen, which, by
the way, do you guys realize how stupid that is?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, I mean it's just idiotic.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Like nobody would ever ask any coach to go fifteen
and two over a seventeen game period when he's coaching
for the first time in his life, by the way,
thirty five years old as a head coach. He's nine
to eight at home, but he's now won five in
a row at Loumenfield. And I gotta tell you, man,
I don't know what it is, man, but that first
half against the Rams on Thursday night, maybe even Dick
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the first three quarters, because you and I had kind
of the same reaction on social media that everybody else
had watching that game. Sean McVay was kicking his ass,
he was whipping his and that was shocking to watch,
was it not?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Those first three quarters of that Ram game.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It was like the Buck game hole over again. I
had two burps. Yeah, like they barfed all over themselves
twice and were unbelievable seven or fifteen times.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I don't know what it was, but something changed with
this football team and this defense after those three quarters
came to an end. And maybe it was Rashid Schehe's
return for a touchdown that just fired everybody up. I
don't know what it was, but the defense that I
saw play on Saturday night against the forty nine ers.
And before you start talking about the Niners offense being bad.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
They're not bad. They're very good, all right. There was
a point in.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Time in the game on Saturday night where we go
back last week against Chicago, the Niners had thirty five
points at the exact same point in time Saturday.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They had three, okay, forty two in the game last week.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
This has been a football team offensively that has been
white fricking hot, and the Seahawks tore their guts out
and right in front of their faces on national TV,
in front of their own fans. There was a three
play sequence in the game on Saturday night. I gotta
go back and watch it again. I think it ended
up in a long conversion for Juwan Jennings on third
and long, which irritated me. But the first two plays
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of that drive was Reequelled on one side and Witherspoon
on the other, just slamming pass catchers to the ground.
Every time somebody caught a ball, there was a guy
right there to make a play. This is the best
tackling football team I've seen in twelve years in Seattle,
and their scheme and their secondary play, I mean, Dick Jackson,
go back to the game on Saturday night, They had
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five drives in the game on Saturday night where the
Niners were within one score and had a chance to
tie the game on that drive because the interception that
McCaffrey dropped, they were down ten, and the field goal
that the Niners made they were also down ten. So
five drives in the game on Saturday where the Niners
had a chance to tie and they went zero for five.
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They got into the Seahawk fifty one time, and they
averaged three point two yards per play on those five drives.
Every time the Niners got the ball with a chance
to tie the game, the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Said, forget it. No, you're not doing it. You're not
doing it.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And maybe that's part of the reason why they ran
the ball the way they did and they called the
game the way they did. There's people out there that
are critical of the Seahawk offense for not scoring enough
points against the Niners, which I just find to be ludicrous, ridiculous.
Every game is different, every context is different. I mean,
by god, dude, if Jason Myers doesn't miss two field goals, okay,
and they convert on first and goal from the one,
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and they win a game twenty six to three.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
How different does that look on paper now entirely?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You look at the Seahawks right now, and I think,
pretty much as we kind of pencil out the playoffs,
any team that is dominated by their running game, I
think that we're gonna beat pretty comfortably because we're able
to be the best run defense in the NFL. Because
of Nick, even Warri, we can stay in the nickel,
and even Warri can come up as you know, basically
a safety and say, Okay, I'm going to stop every
single run near me. So every time we face a
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McCaffrey or a Barkley, I'm not concerned at all about
those teams. It's the passing teams that I'm worried about.
And Woolan suddenly having a freak out moment and turning
into old Woolan because he's been quite recently well.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And remember the game that everybody kind of it was
last year. I know a lot of people were down
on him two a year ago, but the game that
kind of shoved him over the edge was the Tungus game.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
In the first game of the year, game against the Niners.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Right piersoll on one side Tungus in the end zone
where he just looked terrible on defense, and I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He's he's playing dick.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I'm telling you him and Kenny Walker are both playing
like guys that want new deals and know that they're
up for free agency.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And I love it, and that's the fantastic thing. But
the timing of all of this.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
You are going into the playoffs with a couple of
guys and not just them, but boy amfe too.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
By the way, Jos Crouss just got paid.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Right, So we're talking about three guys that are all
playing for new deals. What better time for them to
go out and prove that they earn it and deserve
it than right, frick and now.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And the fact that you have a twenty seven million
dollar quarterback and not a fifty five million dollar quarterback like.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
The Niners have allows you to do all those things right.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Other teams can't do that if they're paying their quarterback
fifty plus million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
And so yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Mean, I'm not even honestly the furthest I'm you know,
you brought it up, so I'm gonna comment on it.
The furthest thing on my mind is Resiling signing to
Equal and the boy Kenwalk I hadn't even thought about that.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
But the point this week, the point is they are
they have maybe maybe one right Jackson, maybe only one yeah,
maybe only one more everything, one more game to prove
what they're worth. You don't think those guys are gonna
wake up in two weeks from now with their balls
on fire, ready to show the sea what they're worth
and what they're all about. I'll tell you what, I
would not wait to sign any of those guys. I'd
(12:04):
wait until the season's over Chole to improve it just
got twenty five million.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So if we look at those three guys and assume
that Mafey's gonna get what fifteen something, we're in that range.
Walker's gonna want ten and one, maybe seven to eight millions.
When you start getting in trouble now now you're kind
of having to pick your poison and say, all right,
I'm good with this, but not this right.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
But to Dick's point, I'm not, guys, I'm not I'm
not bringing this up as if to get into a
salary cap conversation for next year. And we got bigger
fish to fry in the face. You didn't notice, right,
I'm bringing it up as if to say number one,
I'm fired up for those dudes because I thought they
played their nuts off on Saturday, the two of them.
And then number two, to have both those guys be
in a position now where they've only got a couple
of more of you know, opportunities if you will, to
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go out there and show these guys what they're were
that it's just fantastic timing. Fantastic timing for Candy Walker
and Zach s Jarbonnet and Riek Rolling and boy, I mean,
anybody who deserves a raise. I mean, my god, look
at what Drake Drake Thomas, so are you kidding me?
Can you imagine this defense without Drake Thomas right now?
It's stupid what John Schneider has done. That conversation's done dead.
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It's over executive year big time. I mean not just that,
but over the offseason, like, well, let's see if he
can do it again. He kind of is doing it
again now. Clearly you know they could be one and done.
I don't think they will be, but you never know
what these guys if they play at the Rams in
twelve days from now, who knows what the hell's gonna happen.
But the way I sit here, right now, and nothing's given.
I understand that I'm not gonna guarantee squat here on
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the radio show, because that's just dumb. This football team
and I set it on social media. I'm curious to
get your thoughts on it. I'm at a point in time, Dick,
right now where I would be, I don't want to
say big time disappointed, but pretty darn disappointed if these
guys did not play in the Super Bowl. I think
they have the best team in the NFL. I think
they have the best defense in the NFL. They're playing
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at home where they've won five in a row. They
have the number one seed in a league that is
you just said, is wide open right now. The door
is as fat as it's been in a long time.
Where there's no clear cut king of the hill. Hell,
maybe the reason why, in our opinion, from our perspective,
maybe why there's no clear cut king of the hill
is because we are the king of the hill.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
It's us. We are the king of the hill. We
are the ones to beat. Vegas says we are.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
We're the overwhelming fan cliticularly not at all, No, And
I think you're right. I think there's a big difference
between being disappointed and having a disappointment or a disappointing season.
There is nothing, in my opinion that can happen from
here on out that would make twenty twenty five a
disappointing Seattle Seahawks season. They went fourteen and three and
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were the number one seed going to the NFL. That
being said, oh.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
About if they play Carolina and lost.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, okay, that would be a massive disappointment. But I
said the same thing when the Mariners made the ALCS.
There's nothing at this point that could make twenty twenty
five a disappointing season. It would be a disappointment if
they didn't beat Toronto, especially up three to two, it
was a disappointment, But the twenty twenty five Miriner season
not a disappointment. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I just again, everybody speak for themselves, and I would
just from my perspective, it would leave the year with
a pretty sour taste.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
In my mouth.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
To not see these guys play in the Super Bowl
at this point, to have home games, to have a
buy guys, we haven't seen a home playoff game with
fans in nine years. Wow, nine years since the Lion
game in twenty sixteen. Richardson because the twenty was Thomas Rawls.
Remember the game he had Thomas Rawls went cash by Richardson.
(15:29):
But the last time we saw that, I mean it
was twenty twenty against Who was that dipstick that was
starting for the Rams that day? Who was the John Wafford?
Is that his name was the quarterback? There's nobody there
in twenty twenty and they were twelve and four. So
we we are about to do something probably next Saturday,
by the way, is what I'm hearing that we haven't
done in almost.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
A decade, and that's go to a Sea playoff game.
I mean, it really is crazy when you think about it,
it's been that long.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
And you know what's funny is though, how many times
over this last you know, roughly, have we talked about
all the twelves and the energy is just not there
and selling tickets and y yauta that, and you're really
really complaining about the twelves and twelve man, I'm sorry,
but frankly, we've seen these last five games the back
half of this year where we've been five and zero.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I think we can all agree they're back.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I mean, the home field advantage is finally back, the
intensity is back, and now we have potentially two home
playoff games. I expect I don't know twenty thirteen level
of home field advantage, but I expect the last five
games and then a degree higher than that from these
next two games.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
How often did we play the game of how old
were you in twenty sixteen when they played the Lions?
If you're fifteen years old right now, you were five?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Right? I mean, you don't have any idea honestly. I
mean I know this.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Guys like to bust my balls about this stuff, but
it just blows my mind. You think about a teenager,
right like Dixon? How old was Dixon in twenty sixteen?
Your son he was six? Does he remember that playoff
game against the Lions?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
He remembers the Super The Lions game was a.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Non descript playoffs, so he was he was four during
the Super Bowl run, but there was the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
He remembers it because I made sure he burned it
into his brain.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I don't know what kind of supplement you give your
kids when they're in the womb, but to have him
remember that when he was four is crazy. I mean whatever, right,
I mean, you got fully developed brains by the time
they pop out of the womb with the Feinne family.
But that's the point is that you know this is
going to be a.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
First for him.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, go into a game thirteen, fourteen years old, going
to a playoff game with fans, and it's it's crazy
to think about that because we got so used to
seeing this, right, we were so used to every single
year it felt like we were going to see a
home playoff game and for the sixty eight thousand people
going freaking nuts. And now, as you just said yourself, Dick,
it kind of feels like Mike McDonald's got a shot
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to do what.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Pete Carroll did for the next four or five years. Now.
Have you seen their space for next year?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
By the way, they have sixty five million dollars in
cap space for next year. Like this is not this
is not going to end anytime soon. No, get ready,
because this is the start of something fricking Austin Well.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And what's also awesome is not only do you have
home field, you can still legitimately play the no One
believes in us card. Because all I've heard, and you
know how much I listened to the national media, Sam
donald is going to stumble at some point and prevent
the Seahawks from going to That is the national narrative.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah that.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Now, there are Sam Donald truthers out there that believe,
like we buddy your buddy Cowhart, but there are for
the most part, people think that Sam Donald is going
to cost this team a chance of the Super Bowl.
So they've got the we don't believe that nobody believes
in US mantra that they can live by the next
three weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I think it played up anyway. Absolutely make it up.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
What do you think the Patriots used to do back
that nobody believes in US? You've won five titles and
nobody believes in you? Like, what are you talking?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
We don't even need My point is, we don't even
need to make because people don't believe. There are people
in this city that don't believe in the football team
because of their quarters, people on this radio show station
that don't believe.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You can't meet people in this radio stations that don't
believe in I just think this. I think that's why
this team reminds me so much of that twenty thirteen
team now, because like the third guy in charge of
that thing was Russell Wilson. It was the lob Marshawn
Lynch and then it was Russell Wilson, right, who was
in his second year in the NFL. Now, Sam Donald
obviously second year as a big time starter if you will,
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I know he's in year seven or whatever it is.
But the bottom line is you don't need Sam Darnald
to do everything. And that's why that fumble that he
almost had when he stepped on Sundell's leg on Saturday night,
that that kind of stuff scares the piss out of
you because that's the kind of crap that loses a
football game. And thank god he got that ball back.
That's all I feel like, dude, all I'm asking you
to do is just don't f this up. Yes, every
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now and then you'll make a play. Every now and
then there's going to be a deep ball, and you're
been great at that all year long. But the way
this defense is playing at on defense, I don't know
if they could run the ball that way against everybody
because the Niners defense whatever. Yeah, but the defense they
played defense like that, and it's going to impact the
way they call the game. It's going to impact the
way Sam Darnald plays the game. It's going to impact
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everything they do. There was no point in time maybe
when the ball was in the ear for a half
a second on that Darnald fumble that he recovered. Outside
of that, there was no point in time in the
game on Saturday where I thought they'd lose the game.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Never no matter neither.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
But the problem was is we made it so close.
I guess the game calling was so conservative that a
fumble like that and there's a reception that we got
that may not have gotten, could have been the difference.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Said totally absolutely. That's why you just got to play
mistake free. If you're Sam Donald, think I want you
to focus on Sammy, don't make mistakes. Everything else will
fall in line from there. We're going to break a
lot more to get to fun with audio three forty
five humeil a little more at for four we have
secured for you the listening public a rare opportunity talked
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about the first Sea home playoff game with fans since
twenty sixteen. How about we reach into the wayback machine
and go with an old legendary segment, A Seahawk opponent
audio recap with Greg Poppa, Tim Ryan and the forty
nine ers radio crew from KNBR at five twenty eight
tonight Baby coming up in a couple hours right here
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on ninety three three KJRFM from the.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio. Now back to
SOFTI and Dick on your home for the Huskies, Kraken
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Speaker 6 (21:36):
Battle's not been great on third down themselves tonight. They're
only three p seven. This is only a one score game,
ten to three. Get back into it right now. Quick
one out to Kenneth Walker coming wide right thirty thirty five,
breaks a tackle, spins out for the first down. He
converts on third and seventeen.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
You guys see the little factoid floating around the web,
and I don't know if this is true or not.
By the way, I mean, you guys are probably like me.
You probably have a bad habit of just seeing something
on social media and just assuming it's accurate and running
with it. You know, it depends on where you say, Yeah,
I don't want to do the leg work. I'll just
think you're right and move on, or you're an idiot.
I don't like you. I'll just think you're wrong and
never repeat that again. But there's a that's Greg popa
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the Niners voice. We're going to have the opponent audio
recap with more of that. By the way, coming up
at five twenty eight tonight on the radio show Safty
Dick Jackson with you until six pm. That there's been
four runs in the NFL this year, third and fifteen
or more that teams converted. You see that, by the way, Jackson,
and all four belong to the seasons, all of them,
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and that's the difference. I mean, that's why we kind
of began the show by talking about how this has
got some serious twenty thirteen vibes because that was about
defense and running correct twenty thirteen, Marshawn Lynch lob. Now
you got a football team that remember where the running
game was like a month and a half ago. Remember
those conversations we had on the air disaster.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
It is terrible.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
These guys can't run for jacksqu I mean, how many
times do we have Hugh on and say, hey, can
this be fixed?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Or are they who they are at this point?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And most people, I think said, this is kind of
who they are and maybe it's a blip on the radar,
but they're all of a sudden. They finished the year
eleventh in the NFL, and rushing they went for a
bucks seventy one against the Rams, a buck sixty three
against Carolina, one hundred and eighty against San Francisco. That
is all season highs. And I don't know if it's
about frequency. You mentioned the yards per carry the last
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three weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Is what at that fourth and one? That is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
So dude, give these guys credit as coaches because what
Mike McDonald has done with this defense and what Clint
Kubiak has done with this offense, especially the running game,
by the way, to not say, no, we're not going
to just sit here in November and just say, well,
this is who we are. We suck at running the ball,
so let's forget about it. I almost said something else,
(23:53):
by the way, let's forget about it. They worked on it,
and they worked on it, and they worked on it,
and now I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Know, maybe I'm just recentcy biased. Dick and Jackson.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
After the Niner game on Saturday, I feel like they
have a legit run for it now.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So two of them.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
What I was thinking on Saturday night, it was running
through my head as we were just gashing them on
the ground. Was when did the narrative, the national narrative
start that the Seahawks have a trash offensive line and
they will always have a trash offensive line. It feels
like it was around like twenty fifteen where that really
came into effect. Yeah, and it was just a decade
long national narrative, and even even preseason this year, all
(24:30):
the Seahawks offensive line is terrible. I feel like we
are finally putting that narrative to bend, and now we're
gonna be able to have an off season of joyous
being able to watch stupid ESPN and stupid Fox Sports
one shows where nobody will criticize their offensive line and
they'll actually call it a strength.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I think it started in that Carolina Panther playoff game.
That's a call where we got absolutely destroyed and then
still almost came back and won the game, but down
thirty one to nothing and we just get every single
play they were just swarming offensive offensive line. But to
your point on third and long running the ball, I mean,
was that not just an homage to Mike Holmgrid, I
mean that was you talked about it you know, the
(25:07):
similarities to the twenty thirteen to fourteen championship team. How
about the two thousand and five championship, the NFC championship team.
I mean, he loved, he loved giving that ball to
Max Strong on third and fifteen and he got first
down runs on third and fifteen. They did four times
this year.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
He also got a lot of two two yard games
on third and fifteen with that Strong. But I don't know,
I mean, do you guys feel like I do that
it's now a strength of theirs. Yeah, And maybe again
we're making too much out of what we saw against
a bad defense in San Francisco. We'll see if they
can run the ball like that against the Rams if
they faced them in the playoffs. But they just ran
for one hundred and seventy one on the Rams three
(25:41):
weeks ago on Thursday Night Football. And now to your
point about the offensive line, you know, again, when the
offseason comes, you're really only talking about doing one thing,
and that's upgrading right guard. Everything else is kind of
good to go, right, I mean, you should have four
or five guys back. I mean, hell, maybe they're in
love with Bradford more than we think they are and
they'll bring him back to I got no idea, but
(26:02):
I think this is a strength. I'm trying to run
through my head. If this football team doesn't go as
far as we want them to go, what will.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Be the reason why.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The obvious two things are obviously mistakes that put the
defense in a really horrible spot and then not being
able to somehow someway run the football and you'll lose
a close game. But the more and more I talk
through this, I know you guys kind of disagree with me,
and that's fine. I just think it'd be a huge
downer and a huge disappointment to not get there. I mean,
(26:34):
everything is set up, and you know what, Dick, I
don't care what the expectations were when the year began.
Expectations change. If I would have told you when the
year began that the Seahawks would end up with the
biggest point differential in the NFL, that they would have
the number one scoring defense and the National Football League
fourteen wins and home field in the postseason, you would
(26:57):
have said super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
They got to go to a Super Bowl. You gotta
take advantage of that.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
So I don't really care what the expectations were five
months ago. I'm talking about what these guys are capable
of doing today.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Well, they faced.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Three elite run defenses this season Indianapolis, Jacksonville and Houston. Houston.
They ran the ball thirty three times for one hundred
and eighteen yards. That's three point six yards per carry.
So that's not great. Indianapolis was even worse. They ran
it a two point one yards per carry. And then
the Jacksonville game. They ran the ball in that game
twenty six times for sixty yards two point three. Now,
(27:33):
the bad news is, okay, every time they faced an
elite run defense, they struggled. The good news is all
three of those games were quite a while ago. Yeah,
I mean before they got anything fixed.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
What was the third game? It was the Colts Texans
and what else?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Indy Indya was the most recent.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
No, No, col Sexons, Jaguars. They won all three of those.
They did.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
They did They did against two of three playoff teams.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Sophie, let me go back to you two you just
said there because you said it would be a huge
Let me adjust what I texted you yesterday because I said,
or it's maybe a Saturday night that I said that'll
be a little bit of a disappointment if they don't
make a super Bowl. I think it will be a
huge disappointment if they don't make the super Bowl but
lose to a team other than the Rams, because that's
(28:19):
the thing, like nobody else in the league is close
to us other than LA, and if LA beats us
in whether it's the divisional game, if they if they
lose in this the first round to the Rams in
a close game, I'm sorry, I'm just not going to
be overwhelmingly disappointed because I think the Rams are one
B in the NFL to us, and I I'm just
(28:39):
not going to be too disappointed if we if you
lose to a team that I think would then go
win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I think you threw four picks against the Rams and
came within a sixty one yard field goal of beating
their ass. Yeah, no team that throws four picks in
a game as any right to be in a game.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
It also took a massive, improbable comeback to beat them
a home I get that, but that game where they
played terrible football, like I mean, they played awful football
for the most part too, for three quarters against the Rams,
and they turned it on, but they played terrible, terrible football,
at least from the most important position in the first game.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Guys, they're a sixty one yard field goal away from
winning twelve games in a row.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
That's how good they've been. I believe, I think they
are better than the Rams.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I believe that if the Seahawks play well, they beat
thirty out of the thirty one other teams. But I
think that the Rams are the one team that even
if the Seahawks play well, they could still.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Lose to the Well.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I don't know how we judge this stuff, like, you know,
best team in franchise history, points scored, points allowed, whatever.
I just know this that they've never ever in their
franchise history had a football team that finished uh no,
I'm sorry two thousand, Nope, nope, it's never ever had
a one in a two. They've never had a one
and a three. They're third points well, they're not second
in points well, according to my sources, down right, No, Dick,
(29:56):
I think you're right now yet.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
No, they were.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
They were third offensive twenty eight point four to twenty
eight point eight. They've never had a team finish in
the top three in scoring, defense and scoring offense until
now never.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Right, it took him fifty years. And the closest to
you tell me if that team should not be in
the Super Bowl, the closest.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
If you add up their offensive ranking and defensive ranking, right,
the lowest aggregate number four right now?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Correct?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, the lowest they'd ever had was ten, right, and
that was twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
They're four now, yes, now, twenty twenty fifteen, they were
fourth in points and first on defense.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I mean in the game when they went to the
Super Bowl team oh gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
All five? So this this is set a new love.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yeah, twenty thirteen, you're right, they were nine total. Twenty fourteen,
they were eleven total. Two thousand and five, they were
eight total, and now they're four. Well, they lost three
games by a combined nine points, which is the lowest
point differential ever in their losses. They've literally never been
this close to winning every game. God, so you tell
me if they shouldn't play in the Super Bowl, let's
(30:59):
go back to that, we'd be doing.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
No.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
This is it, man, this is it.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
This doesn't This is a freaking gift from the gods,
a gift from the gods to have a team this
young with that much cap space for next season, with
this young of a coaching staff, with this quarterback making
this amount of money at least for another year or
two with Mahomes with a torn with everybody at Mahomes
(31:24):
is out.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Bill's d sucks, right.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I mean, god, guys, come on, this is it? I mean,
I I I I understand your logic with the Rams,
but f your logic.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Well, super Bowl again, very when anybody else when I'm.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Not their trophy. I want a freaking trophy, and I
want it right now.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't want this next generation to wait twenty years
like we walked down Foe. Okay, yes, freezing your balls
off remember that day?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yes, yes, I'm just looking at the Rams. They've lost
by three on the road, by one and overtime and
by three and over time. I mean it's they're getting
blowed out either.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I think our defense is freaking magical. I think our
defenses is legit. I think our defense scares people. I
think Mike McDonald's a freaking wizard. And I think this
defense is playing is go to football right now, as
it's played all year long.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
We've gotta break a little fun with audio.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Next, and then here melon a little more at four,
coming up on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
It's now time for something in Diggs fun with audio.
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister Garoppolo.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Now let's have some fun with audio. All right here, Melan,
we'll join us a little more at four, coming up
right here on ninety three three KJRFM, Walter Jones at
five and then the Seahawk Opponent audio recap. How many
people have been waiting for that for a long time?
The Niners radio version of the Seahawk Opponent Audio recap
(32:51):
at five at twenty eight tonight before cracking hockey at six.
All right, first time this year a little fun with
audio slash hated.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Did you hear that? Hey, Dick? Did you happen to
hear that? What's that? Dick? Starting in the NFL? Were
last week?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Niners quarterback former big mouth Oregon Duck d'amadoor Lenore remember him,
made it clear he wanted to shadow Jackson Smith and
Jigba all game on Saturday. Then, after the Seahawks won,
Jy Sen said this at his postgame press conference.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
The other play the game in soil taty Channel one,
on one. Yeah, I mean, I definitely definitely heard it.
You know, it's it's hard to respond back to all
my fans, but you know, I knew that we were
going to see him today and take care of business.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
So here's the thing, man, and I don't know what
you guys talked about when I was gone, but Diamadoor
Lenor is the epitome of a big mouth cornerback all
hat no cat does not back it up.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
First of all, he's sixty fifth in the NFL by
PFF number two. He comes out and he says he
wants to do something that he has no shot of
actually getting to do because the Niners never let him
do that. I was talking to Millan about this. We
can talk more at four o'clock. All but five of
his snaps took place at the left corner spot. He
doesn't shadow anybody. And Aikman said the same thing on
(34:11):
the broadcast. So, yeah, this guy's like you, I'd like
to go fight him, knowing that there's no chance it's
ever gonna even happen. What kind of punk does that
runs his mouth and talks about wanting to do something
that he knows he'll never get a chance to do well.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
And then he went after Aikman on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Did you see that?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah? He said, y'all think I give a bleep what
Troy Aikman has to say, clearly his eyes rolling in
the back of his head when the game is on,
y'all show me where eleven gave me work post every route,
every matchup.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
How about the one time where he shoved him to
the ground.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah, remember that when they were going at it and
Jackson Smith and Jig who weighs about ten pounds, shoved
him right to the turf. Yeah, man, I mean, come on,
you know I He's like the new Jalen Ramsey for me.
The difference is Ramsey could play. Ramsey's good was a
good player for a long time. All right, Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear what's that?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Dick Day? With a Niners theme?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
At George Kettle's postgame press rapt for the Niners locked
to the Hawks on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
The tight end was not happy, but tried to spin
the situation. Well, look, we also.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
Home to a division rival for the division and the
one seed that sucks.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
That is what it is.
Speaker 9 (35:16):
And yes, I'll be very I'm disappointed.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
About it.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
It's horrible. Goodness, is I gotta play football next week,
you know, whether it's Saturday, Sunday, Monday, whenever it is,
I got to play football again, and it's gonna be
on the road in a hostile environment. Would I much
rather be on a buy and get a play at
Levi Stadium. Yeah, but that's just not our reality. So
you know, I fully expect our team to come in
attack it and like we have a whole new season
ahead of us. It is what it is. So yeah,
(35:40):
that's horrible. Like I hate that. I hate losing, hate
losing to the Seahawks, But hey, we gotta play football
next week.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I love it. I appreciate that out of him.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Did you hear he was asked about the Hawks smoking
cigars in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, and he.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Said I'd do the same thing. Well, he didn't say
a thing he said else. I mean, I don't mind
that quote from George Kettle. Good for him, No, I think.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
I mean, if they weren't so banged up, and if
they just didn't look so tired and beat down at
the end of that game, I would have given them
a really good chance against the Eagles. I still give
them a chance against the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
But if you'd ask me a week ago who wins
the Niners Eagles game they match up, I would have
picked the Niners. But I just think the Seahawks might
have just.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Stolen their soul.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Well, they're gonna have to rally and go on the road,
you know, three thousand miles away. Man, I don't know.
I think that game's a toss up. The Packer Bear
game to me is a toss up only game. I mean,
I'm not again, this is not a ridiculous take, but
the only game.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I feel rid of good about the Rams in Carolina?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Would it's shock you if the Packers beat the Bears
and came here next Saturday, Like.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Who do you want? Who do you want next Satackers
or in two weekends?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I don't want.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
I don't want the Rams as long as I cannot
get there.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
So we need Green Bay or one of the two
to win, Green Bay or San Francisco? Is that is
that right? To play one of them? So we're not
playing the Rams? Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Because if the Eagles win, the Bears win the Rams
when the Rams are coming here, just need.
Speaker 9 (37:01):
One of the right.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yeah, agreed? All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to
hear that? What's that?
Speaker 9 (37:05):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
During the ESPN Maning cast of the Hawks Niner game
on Saturday. How much of the Maning cast do you
guys watch? By the way, I'm wait, he doesn't do
much for me. Peyton and Eli welcome Marshawn Lynch and
then tried to keep him from cussing on the TV show.
Speaker 8 (37:21):
Had you on the show in season one and we
forgot to tell you and you cannot use profanities on air.
So Marchhawan, can you please promise not the curse tonight, unless,
of course you're cursing at Peyton. We all agree that
it's totally fine if you do that.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Well, you know I was about that.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
That was one of the first things I was gonna
add y'all was how much was that fine last time?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Because I know they hit y'all with it.
Speaker 8 (37:44):
Eli had to pay it, So it's all good, mad
Well worth it.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Well, you know, just just to get things on the
up and up.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Let's just get it started. Get it now.
Speaker 8 (37:55):
We got it out the way, we got it, We
got it out the way now we can all right,
let's get in.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Man, so they wanted him to do that, right, because
it's on cable TV. If they really wanted I mean,
they're not live live, They've got to have some delay.
Do you think on that thing, especially with Marshaan. Yeah,
they could have dumped it if they wanted to. I
mean that they wanted that on the ear, I mean
getting putting Marshawn on TV and telling him not to swear?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Then he continued to back, It's like telling Reggie Williams
to not smoke dope. I mean, get out of here, man,
Are you kidding me? He's gonna swear and it's fun
as hell. There's only one guy. I think you you
speak for yourself, Dick, you're a father. I'm not only
one guy that you're okay with your kids here and swear,
and it's Marshawn Lynch.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
They've heard Marshaan swear since they were like two years old,
so they're very used to that.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Oh god, we got tougher. One more, yes, all right,
let's do one more, a dick, did you happen to
hear that?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
The Steelers made the playoffs and won the NFC AFC
North last night, when a potential game winning a field
goal for the Ravens went right wide right at the
end of the game. After the win, Pittsburgh head coach
Mike Tomlin was asked about the hypothetical situation if Baltimore
had made the kick and won that you watch it?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
You turn away, do you, man? I'm gonna watch it?
You kidd me?
Speaker 4 (39:10):
I mean, how can you put into words just the
thin line between if they make that kick, season's over
comes to a screeching halt it missing that kick and
the winner going on?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
You know what it is? If my had male parts,
she'd be my uncle. All right, thanks, did see the
pr guy? We're done.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Wouldn't it have been funnier if he just came out
and instead of the way you're supposed to say it, right,
if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Just come out and just go right there. Right.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
It's like he tried to dance around exactly if my aunt.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Had mill parts my uncle.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Which is very surprising that Tomlin have to dance around any.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Hey, good for the Steelers, man, Right, what the hell
I mean? That kicker should be fired. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
You know he's a rookie.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Though. How many kicks he missed inside fifty.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yards this year, I'll guess none. Is that tr zero terrible.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Man, It was perfect for the season until that.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
You know my take on kickers, dude, you know my
take on kickers.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
That was a snap slice too. That was my That
was my drive even further right than the right rough
that was into the trees.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Not real players, man, they're not real players. They're there
to do one thing. And by the way, Jason Myers
better have gotten that crap out of his system, not
just the field goals, but the kickoff.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
I had a terrible feeling about Jason Myers going out
the game, and I hope you're right. That's that's the one.
That's the what do you call it? The puke it
up game with the pitcher gives up five runs in
one inning. Yeah, that's the Jason Myers puke it up game.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
If he does that again in the playoffs and they
lose because of that, I'll be the first one to
run his ass out of town.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I don't care what he did during the year. You're
a kicker, you got one job. Don't screw it up.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
We're gonna break Hu Milling little More four coming up
on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
A clown
Where we are back for the first time this year.
The boys are together, softy, Dick Jackson, Dick, I owe
you fifty dollars. By the way, I don't even remember
you owe me one dollar. So here's forty and i'll
give you nine later on. I love where this is going, Jackson.
I don't remember why it's going this way.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Of course you don't remember.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
The fifty bucks is for the JJ McCarthy over under touchdowns,
which he did not get to God. And the one
dollar that you owe me is you predicted that Kaitlyn
de Bor would be the new coach at Michigan and
that did not happen. So you owe me a dollar.
But I know you well, I owe you ten bucks now,
all right, so just make sure.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I pay up. So there's your forty dollars already.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Good start to the year, Jackson.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
It's a very good start to the year because the
majority of this came from the Emerald Quick Casino of
your Seattle Seahawks winning the NFC West Championship at plus
five point fifty worst odds on the board back in August.
I mean, how ridiculous does that look?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Going back in the MGM and DraftKings and FanDuel. Everybody
had the Seahawks as the longest shot to win the
NFC West and they freaking win the thing by two games.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What it's all said and done.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And that's the cool thing for me, guys about this
year is that this wasn't a Carolina Panthers situation or
a twenty ten Seahawks situation, or remember when Cam Newton
and the Panthers won their division and they went likee
team and one. No, no, no, they went like seven and nine.
They freaking earned this. This is the best division in
the history of the NFL. It is I mean, like
(01:34):
people say things like that and it's all hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No, there's facts to back it up.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We've never had a division in the NFL where three
teams have won twelve games or more. And for the
Seahawks to be the team that wins that division, they
had to fight their balls off, man, tooth and nail
for everything they got against one of the tougher schedules
in the NFL, definitely one of the tougher division schedules,
if not the toughest division schedule in the National Football League.
(02:00):
Take on a resurgent nine or teen that hung around,
hung around, hung around, never went away the entire year,
had to go through their place and their house and
break them down in their stadium. And I gotta tell
you what, guys, I don't know if you had the
same sensation oh that I did watching this thing on
Saturday night, all right, And you might think I'm being
kind of creepy here and going in a creepy direction.
(02:22):
The sensation that I had watching that game. And maybe
it's because Troy y Aikman was calling the game on
TV for the first time since twenty thirteen. I felt
like I was watching the closest thing to the twenty
thirteen Seahawks, with the way the defense was gang tackling,
the way they were running and swarming to the football,
the way they ran the ball on offense with Kennye
(02:42):
Walker and Zach Starberney, and then on top of that.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
The tone.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Go back and watch the Super Bowl broadcast in twenty thirteen.
It was Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, same two guys
that were on the call on Saturday. And the tone,
the absolute tone that Troy y Aikman took when describing the
defense that we saw on Saturday night was the same
tone that he took in twenty thirteen when the Lob
destroyed Peyton Manning.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And look, I'm not breaking new ground here, guys with
this take.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I understand it that this is a very simple take
by me, and you guys probably I'm sure agree with me.
They played defense the way they played on Saturday Night.
They're gonna win the whole thing. They're gonna win the Lombardi,
They're gonna win a super Bowl. It it's now been
what twelve years since we've had a team in this
town play for a championship, and the championship round enough
time has passed, It's long enough.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Now is the time. And it really does feel like
a little.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Bit to me, Dick and Jackson that whatever timeline John
Schneider had for Mike McDonald, and I have no idea
what his thought was when he hired him.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You know, hey, man, it's good to take a couple
of years. I don't know what he was thinking.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I have no idea, but it feels like whatever that
timeline was for Mike McDonald to have some real success
in Seattle, it kind of feels like it's been accelerated,
Like this is not supposed to be happening in year two.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I think all of us thought when the year began that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
This was going to be a playoff team, right based
on the way their defense played to end the year.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
We did obviously Vegas didn't. I have a seven and
a half win ticket in my pocket. Yes, and I
had the eight and a half and I had the
NFC West.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm totally with you, but all of us thought getting
rid of Gino, going to Sam Darnold. Hey, who knows
how Darnald will play at the minimum. He'll give you
what Gino gave you last year. And if it doesn't
work out. How many times do we say this on
the year. If it doesn't work out, you get a
couple of draft picks, you save some money, you get.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Younger, whatever, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
But the way the defense ended the second half of
last year gave us some hope that this was going
to be a playoff team. I don't think, and I'll
be honest with you, I never saw this coming. I
never saw fourteen and three. I never saw the number
one seed in the NFC. I never saw a defense
right now that is reminding me more of that twenty
thirteen defense than any defense since and the cool thing
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also about Saturday night. We'll get into some details about
the game in a minute. Here, there's two guys on
this football team that have taken a lot of from people,
and deservedly so, by the way, deservedly so. How many
times in this business have we said, look, man, we're
just here to react.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's all we do.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
We just react, right, We react to what we see.
We react to the guys play. And there's been two
guys that we've been debating all year long whether or
not they should be re signed by the Seahawks over
the offseason, and that's Kenny Walker and Tarik Wolan. And
I'm telling you what, both those guys, as I sit
here today, Dick and Jackson, I.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Want them both back on this football team next year,
both of them.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, I've got conflicting feelings about where we're going with
this football team. One side of me says, hey, Mike
McDonald can do the same thing with this defense right
that Pete Carroll did, and that's win it four years
in a row, number one, number one, number one. Like
he has got that ability, and I believe he has
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got the pieces in order to do that. Having said that,
I feel twenty twenty five, twenty six is our opportunity.
There is no Mahmes, there is no Lamar Jackson right now,
and Herbert's offensive line is ravaged that they're not going
to make it. The San Francisco forty nine ers are ravaged.
They're not going to make it. You have checked off,
like three, four, five boxes of teams that potentially could
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have beaten you, just one and there's just one. And
is there a way to get rid of the La Rams,
either by virtue of someone else knocking them off or
having them come here and.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You knock them.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Well, the way is you're playing them at home at Wlomenfield,
where you are a machine. Come playoff time for the
fourth time in franchise history. You have the number one
seed and you have the home field. And we were
talking about this earlier that you know the Hawks are.
What is McDonald's record on the road, fifteen and two overall,
he's played seventeen road games, he's won fifteen, which, by
the way, do you guys realize how stupid that is?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, I mean it's just idiotic.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Like nobody would ever ask any coach to go fifteen
and two over a seventeen game period when he's coaching
for the first time in his life, by the way,
thirty five years old as a head coach. He's nine
to eight at home, but he's now won five in
a row at Loumenfield. And I gotta tell you, man,
I don't know what it is, man, but that first
half against the Rams on Thursday night, maybe even Dick
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the first three quarters, because you and I had kind
of the same reaction on social media that everybody else
had watching that game. Sean McVay was kicking his ass,
he was whipping his and that was shocking to watch,
was it not?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Those first three quarters of that Ram game.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It was like the Buck game hole over again. I
had two burps. Yeah, like they barfed all over themselves
twice and were unbelievable seven or fifteen times.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I don't know what it was, but something changed with
this football team and this defense after those three quarters
came to an end. And maybe it was Rashid Schehe's
return for a touchdown that just fired everybody up. I
don't know what it was, but the defense that I
saw play on Saturday night against the forty nine ers.
And before you start talking about the Niners offense being bad.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
They're not bad. They're very good, all right. There was
a point in.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Time in the game on Saturday night where we go
back last week against Chicago, the Niners had thirty five
points at the exact same point in time Saturday.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They had three, okay, forty two in the game last week.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
This has been a football team offensively that has been
white fricking hot, and the Seahawks tore their guts out
and right in front of their faces on national TV,
in front of their own fans. There was a three
play sequence in the game on Saturday night. I gotta
go back and watch it again. I think it ended
up in a long conversion for Juwan Jennings on third
and long, which irritated me. But the first two plays
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of that drive was Reequelled on one side and Witherspoon
on the other, just slamming pass catchers to the ground.
Every time somebody caught a ball, there was a guy
right there to make a play. This is the best
tackling football team I've seen in twelve years in Seattle,
and their scheme and their secondary play, I mean, Dick Jackson,
go back to the game on Saturday night, They had
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five drives in the game on Saturday night where the
Niners were within one score and had a chance to
tie the game on that drive because the interception that
McCaffrey dropped, they were down ten, and the field goal
that the Niners made they were also down ten. So
five drives in the game on Saturday where the Niners
had a chance to tie and they went zero for five.
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They got into the Seahawk fifty one time, and they
averaged three point two yards per play on those five drives.
Every time the Niners got the ball with a chance
to tie the game, the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Said, forget it. No, you're not doing it. You're not
doing it.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And maybe that's part of the reason why they ran
the ball the way they did and they called the
game the way they did. There's people out there that
are critical of the Seahawk offense for not scoring enough
points against the Niners, which I just find to be ludicrous, ridiculous.
Every game is different, every context is different. I mean,
by god, dude, if Jason Myers doesn't miss two field goals, okay,
and they convert on first and goal from the one,
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and they win a game twenty six to three.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
How different does that look on paper now entirely?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You look at the Seahawks right now, and I think,
pretty much as we kind of pencil out the playoffs,
any team that is dominated by their running game, I
think that we're gonna beat pretty comfortably because we're able
to be the best run defense in the NFL. Because
of Nick, even Warri, we can stay in the nickel,
and even Warri can come up as you know, basically
a safety and say, Okay, I'm going to stop every
single run near me. So every time we face a
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McCaffrey or a Barkley, I'm not concerned at all about
those teams. It's the passing teams that I'm worried about.
And Woolan suddenly having a freak out moment and turning
into old Woolan because he's been quite recently well.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And remember the game that everybody kind of it was
last year. I know a lot of people were down
on him two a year ago, but the game that
kind of shoved him over the edge was the Tungus game.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
In the first game of the year, game against the Niners.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Right piersoll on one side Tungus in the end zone
where he just looked terrible on defense, and I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He's he's playing dick.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I'm telling you him and Kenny Walker are both playing
like guys that want new deals and know that they're
up for free agency.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And I love it, and that's the fantastic thing. But
the timing of all of this.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
You are going into the playoffs with a couple of
guys and not just them, but boy amfe too.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
By the way, Jos Crouss just got paid.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Right, So we're talking about three guys that are all
playing for new deals. What better time for them to
go out and prove that they earn it and deserve
it than right, frick and now.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And the fact that you have a twenty seven million
dollar quarterback and not a fifty five million dollar quarterback like.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
The Niners have allows you to do all those things right.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Other teams can't do that if they're paying their quarterback
fifty plus million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
And so yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Mean, I'm not even honestly the furthest I'm you know,
you brought it up, so I'm gonna comment on it.
The furthest thing on my mind is Resiling signing to
Equal and the boy Kenwalk I hadn't even thought about that.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
But the point this week, the point is they are
they have maybe maybe one right Jackson, maybe only one yeah,
maybe only one more everything, one more game to prove
what they're worth. You don't think those guys are gonna
wake up in two weeks from now with their balls
on fire, ready to show the sea what they're worth
and what they're all about. I'll tell you what, I
would not wait to sign any of those guys. I'd
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wait until the season's over Chole to improve it just
got twenty five million.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
So if we look at those three guys and assume
that Mafey's gonna get what fifteen something, we're in that range.
Walker's gonna want ten and one, maybe seven to eight millions.
When you start getting in trouble now now you're kind
of having to pick your poison and say, all right,
I'm good with this, but not this right.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
But to Dick's point, I'm not, guys, I'm not I'm
not bringing this up as if to get into a
salary cap conversation for next year. And we got bigger
fish to fry in the face. You didn't notice, right,
I'm bringing it up as if to say number one,
I'm fired up for those dudes because I thought they
played their nuts off on Saturday, the two of them.
And then number two, to have both those guys be
in a position now where they've only got a couple
of more of you know, opportunities if you will, to
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go out there and show these guys what they're were
that it's just fantastic timing. Fantastic timing for Candy Walker
and Zach s Jarbonnet and Riek Rolling and boy, I mean,
anybody who deserves a raise. I mean, my god, look
at what Drake Drake Thomas, so are you kidding me?
Can you imagine this defense without Drake Thomas right now?
It's stupid what John Schneider has done. That conversation's done dead.
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It's over executive year big time. I mean not just that,
but over the offseason, like, well, let's see if he
can do it again. He kind of is doing it
again now. Clearly you know they could be one and done.
I don't think they will be, but you never know
what these guys if they play at the Rams in
twelve days from now, who knows what the hell's gonna happen.
But the way I sit here, right now, and nothing's given.
I understand that I'm not gonna guarantee squat here on
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the radio show, because that's just dumb. This football team
and I set it on social media. I'm curious to
get your thoughts on it. I'm at a point in time, Dick,
right now where I would be, I don't want to
say big time disappointed, but pretty darn disappointed if these
guys did not play in the Super Bowl. I think
they have the best team in the NFL. I think
they have the best defense in the NFL. They're playing
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at home where they've won five in a row. They
have the number one seed in a league that is
you just said, is wide open right now. The door
is as fat as it's been in a long time.
Where there's no clear cut king of the hill. Hell,
maybe the reason why, in our opinion, from our perspective,
maybe why there's no clear cut king of the hill
is because we are the king of the hill.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
It's us. We are the king of the hill. We
are the ones to beat. Vegas says we are.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
We're the overwhelming fan cliticularly not at all, No, And
I think you're right. I think there's a big difference
between being disappointed and having a disappointment or a disappointing season.
There is nothing, in my opinion that can happen from
here on out that would make twenty twenty five a
disappointing Seattle Seahawks season. They went fourteen and three and
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were the number one seed going to the NFL. That
being said, oh.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
About if they play Carolina and lost.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, okay, that would be a massive disappointment. But I
said the same thing when the Mariners made the ALCS.
There's nothing at this point that could make twenty twenty
five a disappointing season. It would be a disappointment if
they didn't beat Toronto, especially up three to two, it
was a disappointment, But the twenty twenty five Miriner season
not a disappointment. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I just again, everybody speak for themselves, and I would
just from my perspective, it would leave the year with
a pretty sour taste.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
In my mouth.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
To not see these guys play in the Super Bowl
at this point, to have home games, to have a
buy guys, we haven't seen a home playoff game with
fans in nine years. Wow, nine years since the Lion
game in twenty sixteen. Richardson because the twenty was Thomas Rawls.
Remember the game he had Thomas Rawls went cash by Richardson.
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But the last time we saw that, I mean it
was twenty twenty against Who was that dipstick that was
starting for the Rams that day? Who was the John Wafford?
Is that his name was the quarterback? There's nobody there
in twenty twenty and they were twelve and four. So
we we are about to do something probably next Saturday,
by the way, is what I'm hearing that we haven't
done in almost.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
A decade, and that's go to a Sea playoff game.
I mean, it really is crazy when you think about it,
it's been that long.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
And you know what's funny is though, how many times
over this last you know, roughly, have we talked about
all the twelves and the energy is just not there
and selling tickets and y yauta that, and you're really
really complaining about the twelves and twelve man, I'm sorry,
but frankly, we've seen these last five games the back
half of this year where we've been five and zero.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I think we can all agree they're back.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I mean, the home field advantage is finally back, the
intensity is back, and now we have potentially two home
playoff games. I expect I don't know twenty thirteen level
of home field advantage, but I expect the last five
games and then a degree higher than that from these
next two games.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
How often did we play the game of how old
were you in twenty sixteen when they played the Lions?
If you're fifteen years old right now, you were five?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Right? I mean, you don't have any idea honestly. I
mean I know this.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Guys like to bust my balls about this stuff, but
it just blows my mind. You think about a teenager,
right like Dixon? How old was Dixon in twenty sixteen?
Your son he was six? Does he remember that playoff
game against the Lions?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
He remembers the Super The Lions game was a.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Non descript playoffs, so he was he was four during
the Super Bowl run, but there was the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
He remembers it because I made sure he burned it
into his brain.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I don't know what kind of supplement you give your
kids when they're in the womb, but to have him
remember that when he was four is crazy. I mean whatever, right,
I mean, you got fully developed brains by the time
they pop out of the womb with the Feinne family.
But that's the point is that you know this is
going to be a.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
First for him.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, go into a game thirteen, fourteen years old, going
to a playoff game with fans, and it's it's crazy
to think about that because we got so used to
seeing this, right, we were so used to every single
year it felt like we were going to see a
home playoff game and for the sixty eight thousand people
going freaking nuts. And now, as you just said yourself, Dick,
it kind of feels like Mike McDonald's got a shot
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to do what.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Pete Carroll did for the next four or five years. Now.
Have you seen their space for next year?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
By the way, they have sixty five million dollars in
cap space for next year. Like this is not this
is not going to end anytime soon. No, get ready,
because this is the start of something fricking Austin Well.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And what's also awesome is not only do you have
home field, you can still legitimately play the no One
believes in us card. Because all I've heard, and you
know how much I listened to the national media, Sam
donald is going to stumble at some point and prevent
the Seahawks from going to That is the national narrative.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah that.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Now, there are Sam Donald truthers out there that believe,
like we buddy your buddy Cowhart, but there are for
the most part, people think that Sam Donald is going
to cost this team a chance of the Super Bowl.
So they've got the we don't believe that nobody believes
in US mantra that they can live by the next
three weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I think it played up anyway. Absolutely make it up.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
What do you think the Patriots used to do back
that nobody believes in US? You've won five titles and
nobody believes in you? Like, what are you talking?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
We don't even need My point is, we don't even
need to make because people don't believe. There are people
in this city that don't believe in the football team
because of their quarters, people on this radio show station
that don't believe.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You can't meet people in this radio stations that don't
believe in I just think this. I think that's why
this team reminds me so much of that twenty thirteen
team now, because like the third guy in charge of
that thing was Russell Wilson. It was the lob Marshawn
Lynch and then it was Russell Wilson, right, who was
in his second year in the NFL. Now, Sam Donald
obviously second year as a big time starter if you will,
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I know he's in year seven or whatever it is.
But the bottom line is you don't need Sam Darnald
to do everything. And that's why that fumble that he
almost had when he stepped on Sundell's leg on Saturday night,
that that kind of stuff scares the piss out of
you because that's the kind of crap that loses a
football game. And thank god he got that ball back.
That's all I feel like, dude, all I'm asking you
to do is just don't f this up. Yes, every
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now and then you'll make a play. Every now and
then there's going to be a deep ball, and you're
been great at that all year long. But the way
this defense is playing at on defense, I don't know
if they could run the ball that way against everybody
because the Niners defense whatever. Yeah, but the defense they
played defense like that, and it's going to impact the
way they call the game. It's going to impact the
way Sam Darnald plays the game. It's going to impact
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everything they do. There was no point in time maybe
when the ball was in the ear for a half
a second on that Darnald fumble that he recovered. Outside
of that, there was no point in time in the
game on Saturday where I thought they'd lose the game.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Never no matter neither.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
But the problem was is we made it so close.
I guess the game calling was so conservative that a
fumble like that and there's a reception that we got
that may not have gotten, could have been the difference.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Said totally absolutely. That's why you just got to play
mistake free. If you're Sam Donald, think I want you
to focus on Sammy, don't make mistakes. Everything else will
fall in line from there. We're going to break a
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Speaker 5 (21:24):
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Speaker 6 (21:36):
Battle's not been great on third down themselves tonight. They're
only three p seven. This is only a one score game,
ten to three. Get back into it right now. Quick
one out to Kenneth Walker coming wide right thirty thirty five,
breaks a tackle, spins out for the first down. He
converts on third and seventeen.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
You guys see the little factoid floating around the web,
and I don't know if this is true or not.
By the way, I mean, you guys are probably like me.
You probably have a bad habit of just seeing something
on social media and just assuming it's accurate and running
with it. You know, it depends on where you say, Yeah,
I don't want to do the leg work. I'll just
think you're right and move on, or you're an idiot.
I don't like you. I'll just think you're wrong and
never repeat that again. But there's a that's Greg popa
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the Niners voice. We're going to have the opponent audio
recap with more of that. By the way, coming up
at five twenty eight tonight on the radio show Safty
Dick Jackson with you until six pm. That there's been
four runs in the NFL this year, third and fifteen
or more that teams converted. You see that, by the way, Jackson,
and all four belong to the seasons, all of them,
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and that's the difference. I mean, that's why we kind
of began the show by talking about how this has
got some serious twenty thirteen vibes because that was about
defense and running correct twenty thirteen, Marshawn Lynch lob. Now
you got a football team that remember where the running
game was like a month and a half ago. Remember
those conversations we had on the air disaster.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
It is terrible.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
These guys can't run for jacksqu I mean, how many
times do we have Hugh on and say, hey, can
this be fixed?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Or are they who they are at this point?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And most people, I think said, this is kind of
who they are and maybe it's a blip on the radar,
but they're all of a sudden. They finished the year
eleventh in the NFL, and rushing they went for a
bucks seventy one against the Rams, a buck sixty three
against Carolina, one hundred and eighty against San Francisco. That
is all season highs. And I don't know if it's
about frequency. You mentioned the yards per carry the last
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three weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Is what at that fourth and one? That is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
So dude, give these guys credit as coaches because what
Mike McDonald has done with this defense and what Clint
Kubiak has done with this offense, especially the running game,
by the way, to not say, no, we're not going
to just sit here in November and just say, well,
this is who we are. We suck at running the ball,
so let's forget about it. I almost said something else,
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by the way, let's forget about it. They worked on it,
and they worked on it, and they worked on it,
and now I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Know, maybe I'm just recentcy biased. Dick and Jackson.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
After the Niner game on Saturday, I feel like they
have a legit run for it now.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So two of them.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
What I was thinking on Saturday night, it was running
through my head as we were just gashing them on
the ground. Was when did the narrative, the national narrative
start that the Seahawks have a trash offensive line and
they will always have a trash offensive line. It feels
like it was around like twenty fifteen where that really
came into effect. Yeah, and it was just a decade
long national narrative, and even even preseason this year, all
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the Seahawks offensive line is terrible. I feel like we
are finally putting that narrative to bend, and now we're
gonna be able to have an off season of joyous
being able to watch stupid ESPN and stupid Fox Sports
one shows where nobody will criticize their offensive line and
they'll actually call it a strength.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I think it started in that Carolina Panther playoff game.
That's a call where we got absolutely destroyed and then
still almost came back and won the game, but down
thirty one to nothing and we just get every single
play they were just swarming offensive offensive line. But to
your point on third and long running the ball, I mean,
was that not just an homage to Mike Holmgrid, I
mean that was you talked about it you know, the
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similarities to the twenty thirteen to fourteen championship team. How
about the two thousand and five championship, the NFC championship team.
I mean, he loved, he loved giving that ball to
Max Strong on third and fifteen and he got first
down runs on third and fifteen. They did four times
this year.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
He also got a lot of two two yard games
on third and fifteen with that Strong. But I don't know,
I mean, do you guys feel like I do that
it's now a strength of theirs. Yeah, And maybe again
we're making too much out of what we saw against
a bad defense in San Francisco. We'll see if they
can run the ball like that against the Rams if
they faced them in the playoffs. But they just ran
for one hundred and seventy one on the Rams three
(25:41):
weeks ago on Thursday Night Football. And now to your
point about the offensive line, you know, again, when the
offseason comes, you're really only talking about doing one thing,
and that's upgrading right guard. Everything else is kind of
good to go, right, I mean, you should have four
or five guys back. I mean, hell, maybe they're in
love with Bradford more than we think they are and
they'll bring him back to I got no idea, but
(26:02):
I think this is a strength. I'm trying to run
through my head. If this football team doesn't go as
far as we want them to go, what will.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Be the reason why.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The obvious two things are obviously mistakes that put the
defense in a really horrible spot and then not being
able to somehow someway run the football and you'll lose
a close game. But the more and more I talk
through this, I know you guys kind of disagree with me,
and that's fine. I just think it'd be a huge
downer and a huge disappointment to not get there. I mean,
(26:34):
everything is set up, and you know what, Dick, I
don't care what the expectations were when the year began.
Expectations change. If I would have told you when the
year began that the Seahawks would end up with the
biggest point differential in the NFL, that they would have
the number one scoring defense and the National Football League
fourteen wins and home field in the postseason, you would
(26:57):
have said super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
They got to go to a Super Bowl. You gotta
take advantage of that.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
So I don't really care what the expectations were five
months ago. I'm talking about what these guys are capable
of doing today.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Well, they faced.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Three elite run defenses this season Indianapolis, Jacksonville and Houston. Houston.
They ran the ball thirty three times for one hundred
and eighteen yards. That's three point six yards per carry.
So that's not great. Indianapolis was even worse. They ran
it a two point one yards per carry. And then
the Jacksonville game. They ran the ball in that game
twenty six times for sixty yards two point three. Now,
(27:33):
the bad news is, okay, every time they faced an
elite run defense, they struggled. The good news is all
three of those games were quite a while ago. Yeah,
I mean before they got anything fixed.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
What was the third game? It was the Colts Texans
and what else?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Indy Indya was the most recent.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
No, No, col Sexons, Jaguars. They won all three of those.
They did.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
They did They did against two of three playoff teams.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Sophie, let me go back to you two you just
said there because you said it would be a huge
Let me adjust what I texted you yesterday because I said,
or it's maybe a Saturday night that I said that'll
be a little bit of a disappointment if they don't
make a super Bowl. I think it will be a
huge disappointment if they don't make the super Bowl but
lose to a team other than the Rams, because that's
(28:19):
the thing, like nobody else in the league is close
to us other than LA, and if LA beats us
in whether it's the divisional game, if they if they
lose in this the first round to the Rams in
a close game, I'm sorry, I'm just not going to
be overwhelmingly disappointed because I think the Rams are one
B in the NFL to us, and I I'm just
(28:39):
not going to be too disappointed if we if you
lose to a team that I think would then go
win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I think you threw four picks against the Rams and
came within a sixty one yard field goal of beating
their ass. Yeah, no team that throws four picks in
a game as any right to be in a game.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
It also took a massive, improbable comeback to beat them
a home I get that, but that game where they
played terrible football, like I mean, they played awful football
for the most part too, for three quarters against the Rams,
and they turned it on, but they played terrible, terrible football,
at least from the most important position in the first game.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Guys, they're a sixty one yard field goal away from
winning twelve games in a row.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
That's how good they've been. I believe, I think they
are better than the Rams.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I believe that if the Seahawks play well, they beat
thirty out of the thirty one other teams. But I
think that the Rams are the one team that even
if the Seahawks play well, they could still.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Lose to the Well.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I don't know how we judge this stuff, like, you know,
best team in franchise history, points scored, points allowed, whatever.
I just know this that they've never ever in their
franchise history had a football team that finished uh no,
I'm sorry two thousand, Nope, nope, it's never ever had
a one in a two. They've never had a one
and a three. They're third points well, they're not second
in points well, according to my sources, down right, No, Dick,
(29:56):
I think you're right now yet.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
No, they were.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
They were third offensive twenty eight point four to twenty
eight point eight. They've never had a team finish in
the top three in scoring, defense and scoring offense until
now never.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Right, it took him fifty years. And the closest to
you tell me if that team should not be in
the Super Bowl, the closest.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
If you add up their offensive ranking and defensive ranking, right,
the lowest aggregate number four right now?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Correct?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, the lowest they'd ever had was ten, right, and
that was twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
They're four now, yes, now, twenty twenty fifteen, they were
fourth in points and first on defense.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I mean in the game when they went to the
Super Bowl team oh gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
All five? So this this is set a new love.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yeah, twenty thirteen, you're right, they were nine total. Twenty fourteen,
they were eleven total. Two thousand and five, they were
eight total, and now they're four. Well, they lost three
games by a combined nine points, which is the lowest
point differential ever in their losses. They've literally never been
this close to winning every game. God, so you tell
me if they shouldn't play in the Super Bowl, let's
(30:59):
go back to that, we'd be doing.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
No.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
This is it, man, this is it.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
This doesn't This is a freaking gift from the gods,
a gift from the gods to have a team this
young with that much cap space for next season, with
this young of a coaching staff, with this quarterback making
this amount of money at least for another year or
two with Mahomes with a torn with everybody at Mahomes
(31:24):
is out.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Bill's d sucks, right.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I mean, god, guys, come on, this is it? I mean,
I I I I understand your logic with the Rams,
but f your logic.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Well, super Bowl again, very when anybody else when I'm.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Not their trophy. I want a freaking trophy, and I
want it right now.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't want this next generation to wait twenty years
like we walked down Foe. Okay, yes, freezing your balls
off remember that day?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yes, yes, I'm just looking at the Rams. They've lost
by three on the road, by one and overtime and
by three and over time. I mean it's they're getting
blowed out either.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I think our defense is freaking magical. I think our
defenses is legit. I think our defense scares people. I
think Mike McDonald's a freaking wizard. And I think this
defense is playing is go to football right now, as
it's played all year long.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
We've gotta break a little fun with audio.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Next, and then here melon a little more at four,
coming up on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
It's now time for something in Diggs fun with audio.
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister Garoppolo.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Now let's have some fun with audio. All right here, Melan,
we'll join us a little more at four, coming up
right here on ninety three three KJRFM, Walter Jones at
five and then the Seahawk Opponent audio recap. How many
people have been waiting for that for a long time?
The Niners radio version of the Seahawk Opponent Audio recap
(32:51):
at five at twenty eight tonight before cracking hockey at six.
All right, first time this year a little fun with
audio slash hated.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Did you hear that? Hey, Dick? Did you happen to
hear that? What's that? Dick? Starting in the NFL? Were
last week?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Niners quarterback former big mouth Oregon Duck d'amadoor Lenore remember him,
made it clear he wanted to shadow Jackson Smith and
Jigba all game on Saturday. Then, after the Seahawks won,
Jy Sen said this at his postgame press conference.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
The other play the game in soil taty Channel one,
on one. Yeah, I mean, I definitely definitely heard it.
You know, it's it's hard to respond back to all
my fans, but you know, I knew that we were
going to see him today and take care of business.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
So here's the thing, man, and I don't know what
you guys talked about when I was gone, but Diamadoor
Lenor is the epitome of a big mouth cornerback all
hat no cat does not back it up.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
First of all, he's sixty fifth in the NFL by
PFF number two. He comes out and he says he
wants to do something that he has no shot of
actually getting to do because the Niners never let him
do that. I was talking to Millan about this. We
can talk more at four o'clock. All but five of
his snaps took place at the left corner spot. He
doesn't shadow anybody. And Aikman said the same thing on
(34:11):
the broadcast. So, yeah, this guy's like you, I'd like
to go fight him, knowing that there's no chance it's
ever gonna even happen. What kind of punk does that
runs his mouth and talks about wanting to do something
that he knows he'll never get a chance to do well.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
And then he went after Aikman on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Did you see that?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah? He said, y'all think I give a bleep what
Troy Aikman has to say, clearly his eyes rolling in
the back of his head when the game is on,
y'all show me where eleven gave me work post every route,
every matchup.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
How about the one time where he shoved him to
the ground.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah, remember that when they were going at it and
Jackson Smith and Jig who weighs about ten pounds, shoved
him right to the turf. Yeah, man, I mean, come on,
you know I He's like the new Jalen Ramsey for me.
The difference is Ramsey could play. Ramsey's good was a
good player for a long time. All right, Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear what's that?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Dick Day? With a Niners theme?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
At George Kettle's postgame press rapt for the Niners locked
to the Hawks on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
The tight end was not happy, but tried to spin
the situation. Well, look, we also.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
Home to a division rival for the division and the
one seed that sucks.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
That is what it is.
Speaker 9 (35:16):
And yes, I'll be very I'm disappointed.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
About it.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
It's horrible. Goodness, is I gotta play football next week,
you know, whether it's Saturday, Sunday, Monday, whenever it is,
I got to play football again, and it's gonna be
on the road in a hostile environment. Would I much
rather be on a buy and get a play at
Levi Stadium. Yeah, but that's just not our reality. So
you know, I fully expect our team to come in
attack it and like we have a whole new season
ahead of us. It is what it is. So yeah,
(35:40):
that's horrible. Like I hate that. I hate losing, hate
losing to the Seahawks, But hey, we gotta play football
next week.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
I love it. I appreciate that out of him.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Did you hear he was asked about the Hawks smoking
cigars in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, and he.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Said I'd do the same thing. Well, he didn't say
a thing he said else. I mean, I don't mind
that quote from George Kettle. Good for him, No, I think.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
I mean, if they weren't so banged up, and if
they just didn't look so tired and beat down at
the end of that game, I would have given them
a really good chance against the Eagles. I still give
them a chance against the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
But if you'd ask me a week ago who wins
the Niners Eagles game they match up, I would have
picked the Niners. But I just think the Seahawks might
have just.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Stolen their soul.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Well, they're gonna have to rally and go on the road,
you know, three thousand miles away. Man, I don't know.
I think that game's a toss up. The Packer Bear
game to me is a toss up only game. I mean,
I'm not again, this is not a ridiculous take, but
the only game.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I feel rid of good about the Rams in Carolina?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Would it's shock you if the Packers beat the Bears
and came here next Saturday, Like.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Who do you want? Who do you want next Satackers
or in two weekends?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I don't want.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
I don't want the Rams as long as I cannot
get there.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
So we need Green Bay or one of the two
to win, Green Bay or San Francisco? Is that is
that right? To play one of them? So we're not
playing the Rams? Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Because if the Eagles win, the Bears win the Rams
when the Rams are coming here, just need.
Speaker 9 (37:01):
One of the right.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yeah, agreed? All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to
hear that? What's that?
Speaker 9 (37:05):
Dick?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
During the ESPN Maning cast of the Hawks Niner game
on Saturday. How much of the Maning cast do you
guys watch? By the way, I'm wait, he doesn't do
much for me. Peyton and Eli welcome Marshawn Lynch and
then tried to keep him from cussing on the TV show.
Speaker 8 (37:21):
Had you on the show in season one and we
forgot to tell you and you cannot use profanities on air.
So Marchhawan, can you please promise not the curse tonight, unless,
of course you're cursing at Peyton. We all agree that
it's totally fine if you do that.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Well, you know I was about that.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
That was one of the first things I was gonna
add y'all was how much was that fine last time?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Because I know they hit y'all with it.
Speaker 8 (37:44):
Eli had to pay it, So it's all good, mad
Well worth it.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Well, you know, just just to get things on the
up and up.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Let's just get it started. Get it now.
Speaker 8 (37:55):
We got it out the way, we got it, We
got it out the way now we can all right,
let's get in.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Man, so they wanted him to do that, right, because
it's on cable TV. If they really wanted I mean,
they're not live live, They've got to have some delay.
Do you think on that thing, especially with Marshaan. Yeah,
they could have dumped it if they wanted to. I
mean that they wanted that on the ear, I mean
getting putting Marshawn on TV and telling him not to swear?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Then he continued to back, It's like telling Reggie Williams
to not smoke dope. I mean, get out of here, man,
Are you kidding me? He's gonna swear and it's fun
as hell. There's only one guy. I think you you
speak for yourself, Dick, you're a father. I'm not only
one guy that you're okay with your kids here and swear,
and it's Marshawn Lynch.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
They've heard Marshaan swear since they were like two years old,
so they're very used to that.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Oh god, we got tougher. One more, yes, all right,
let's do one more, a dick, did you happen to
hear that?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
The Steelers made the playoffs and won the NFC AFC
North last night, when a potential game winning a field
goal for the Ravens went right wide right at the
end of the game. After the win, Pittsburgh head coach
Mike Tomlin was asked about the hypothetical situation if Baltimore
had made the kick and won that you watch it?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
You turn away, do you, man? I'm gonna watch it?
You kidd me?
Speaker 4 (39:10):
I mean, how can you put into words just the
thin line between if they make that kick, season's over
comes to a screeching halt it missing that kick and
the winner going on?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
You know what it is? If my had male parts,
she'd be my uncle. All right, thanks, did see the
pr guy? We're done.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Wouldn't it have been funnier if he just came out
and instead of the way you're supposed to say it, right,
if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Just come out and just go right there. Right.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
It's like he tried to dance around exactly if my aunt.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Had mill parts my uncle.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Which is very surprising that Tomlin have to dance around any.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Hey, good for the Steelers, man, Right, what the hell
I mean? That kicker should be fired. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
You know he's a rookie.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Though. How many kicks he missed inside fifty.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yards this year, I'll guess none. Is that tr zero terrible.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Man, It was perfect for the season until that.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
You know my take on kickers, dude, you know my
take on kickers.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
That was a snap slice too. That was my That
was my drive even further right than the right rough
that was into the trees.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Not real players, man, they're not real players. They're there
to do one thing. And by the way, Jason Myers
better have gotten that crap out of his system, not
just the field goals, but the kickoff.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
I had a terrible feeling about Jason Myers going out
the game, and I hope you're right. That's that's the one.
That's the what do you call it? The puke it
up game with the pitcher gives up five runs in
one inning. Yeah, that's the Jason Myers puke it up game.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
If he does that again in the playoffs and they
lose because of that, I'll be the first one to
run his ass out of town.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I don't care what he did during the year. You're
a kicker, you got one job. Don't screw it up.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
We're gonna break Hu Milling little More four coming up
on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
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