January 5, 2026 • 31 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain talk to Seahawks Hall of Fame LT Walter Jones about the win and year, then get a special 49ers Opponent Audio Recap.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Maybe the best left tackle of all time in the
history of the National Football League. We had the honor
of watching this man play every single Sunday for a
long long time.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
And he's back with us now on the radio show.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Our old friend Walter Jones, Big Walt joins us right
now on the radio program Walt, Happy New Year. How
are you, man?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I'm doing good. Gods happy to you too, New Year.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
That's good to have you back on the show. So
tell us about your response to this year. Man, how
kind of out of the blue for you? Fourteen and three,
number one seed, maybe the favorite to win the Super
Bowl right now? How much of this did you actually
see coming? And how much of this is even a
surprise to you?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Do you know what?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
I'm thanking you a I think they're more surprised it
is that, you know in a new quarterback. You know,
I wasn't. I wasn't strange about the receiver's leavement. I
was just like, Okay, how is a new quarterback go
to come in here and be able to increment what
they wanted to do? And then basically he did the
exact same that he did when he was at Minnesota.
So for me personally, the way that Sam came in
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here and the way he played football since he'd been here,
it's pretty amazing. Even though with all the other negative
stuff that's behind him, the numbers that he didn't put
up in the last two years, I'm kind of glad
that he's on our team and we got him for
about more years.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
What'd you make what you saw Saturday night?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
As far as the game plan, I mean, obviously they
stuck to the run. They just kept going to it
because the Niners couldn't couldn't stop it, and it was
pretty conservative and that's why the game was so close.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
But did you like that game plan?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
I thought it was a perfect game plan. I think
a lot of times, you know, when you see the
running backs and I thought, I said, I was watching
the game and I was saying to myself. I said, man, something,
that's any running back, because especially with Kate nine, you know,
K nine is that kind of running back that's I
could hit the home run ball every time. But I
felt like both of those running back had a plan
when they came in the game. So you got to
take your head off to the coaches and let them know,
(02:08):
just hit the hole. I thought that's what they did
throughout the whole game. And I kind of took the
running game to the forty nine ers. You know, I
thought that forty nine had all the hype coming into
the game. You kind of felt like people thought like
there was easy for the forty nine ers, you know,
once they figured out their scenario what's going to happen.
It was just thinking that, Okay, we're just gonna win
this game because it's then our home field. But still again,
(02:29):
I thought the game plan and the way the defense,
you know, you got to take your head off the
way the defense to play the defense the way that
they came out there and kind of shut that offense
down because that offense has been hot for the last couple.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Of weeks, and for that defense.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
To go in there on their home field and shut
them down, like that. That was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, let's go back and talk about the offensive line
for a second. Wall we'll talk about the defense in
a minute. From your Perspective by Walter Jones with us
on the radio show. So, honestly, man, what's the difference
between this offensive line that we're seeing today versus the
one that we saw just a couple of years ago. Remember,
we would have you one constantly yelling at you like
it was your fault about the offensive line? Man, how
(03:05):
much different are do things looking? Why are they different?
In your opinion, I.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Think they kind of took a look at in their
own face and say, okay, we got to start from
the inside out. You know, the inside out. You know,
you take care of these guys. You try to figure
out when I came into the game, where you know
you you you set the left tackle of the left guard.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
So, I think what they have going on right now,
all these guys are young, And I said that the
cool thing about it, these guys have been together all season.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
And that's pretty.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Amazing that those guys really was together the whole season.
That was not no major injuries where guys was missing plays,
these guys have been together all season. So I think
that's that's a very positive thing for this offense that
you have these guys that's been together a whole season,
the whole training camp, the whole preseason, and now you're
seeing what these guys have done, what they have put
together for these guys. So these guys are going to
(03:53):
be good for a long time.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Man.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
You keep the young guys, and you know, Across just
got paid. So that telling me now that they're thinking
about this offensive line and what this offensive line can be.
So I think these guys the sky is the limit, man,
for them to be at this level, this early, this young,
all you can know is that that's gonna be a
lot of success.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Big wal Walter joins Jones, the Hall of Famer, joining us, Say,
you mentioned Charles Cross. Give us your opinion of what
you've seen from Charles Cross throughout his career and also
the development just within this season.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I think he's become in one of those I guess,
you know, you look at the line already. You know
he's like one of the older Vets already, and you
know you're seeing he got his a stenching. But I
think every year he just got better and better, consistently
better and better, you know, saying you can pick out
players and say he didn't do this or do this.
But from a standpoint, I think offensive liners. I feel
like offense line have to be thrown in the fire.
(04:44):
You know, you can probably sit a quarterback or any
other position. You can sit them and let them learn.
But I think offensive lineas you learn on the go.
You know, when you're throwing the far, you learn from
your mistake. So to keep him here, to keep him
locked up. And then now you got a young guy Zabeled,
that's going to be right there by his side. Man,
that's gonna be pretty amazing. Kind of going to give
you that old feeling the back when seventy six and
(05:06):
seventy one was out there, but still in again, these
guys are young and they want to be great. The
cool thing about all these guys, they want to be great.
So I'm happy for these guys and I'm happy for
the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
That's high praise.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Back in the day when seventy six and seventy one,
Holy moment to see that again, I mean, we is
this the best?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Honestly in your opinion, is this the best duo since then,
I would.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Say, you know, like they still learn it. Man.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I think the whole point is like just being out
there and giving the experience, and they gonna get that
experience together, you know, if you get a guy that's right. Besides,
you know, Hutch came in this game kind of like
they came in. You know, he was a plug and
play guy. So you know that day one, I think
everybody said that, you know, from the trance staff to
the coaches, this guy is a day one guy. And
now if you put him with Charles Cross and now
(05:53):
you can kind of see what this team can really
be if you b up from the inside out.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
And now you see it that success.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Well, what are you seeing up front, specifically in the
blocking scheme that's helping out the running backs, because those
running backs were getting shut down for most of the
first two months of the season and things have opened
up for him.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I'm thinking this all about a destiny, you know. I
think a lot of times you know your run plays,
your run plays, and then all of a sudden you
sit down and you decide, Okay, these are our best plays.
And I think you know, once they knew understood what
their stance was what they're going to do, you know,
and I tell people all the time, I felt like
a lot of that was you know, uh, these last
couple of games where you know, you didn't see the
offense putting up numbers and the defense was doing what
(06:35):
they're doing. I felt like, you know, you got a
young guy McDonald, That guy is gonna always you know,
they always thinking about the next series or thinking about
the next game.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So but what they're doing is just these guys are
getting up to the second level.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Anytime you got athletic alignments that can get up to
the second level, you see these guys out on the screen,
you know, when you get these guys to move it
and you seeing that they want more athletic big boys,
but not just the big oversized guys. You want guys
that can move, guys that you're running screens with. And
I think that's the cool thing that you got. You know,
you don't catch a lot of line is that you know,
you're running screens all the time, You running screens all
the time, but these guys can get out in the
(07:08):
open field and make plays. And you kind of saw
that in these last couple of games where these guys
are getting out and I always tell people business that
if you're running back and get to the line of scrims,
you're going to have done your job. So in this game,
I felt like those guys definitely came out on a
mission to these guys to the second level. And then
once you got those guys to the second level, you
can see what these two running backs can do. So
(07:28):
I think these guys can can move guys around, and
it looks fun for those guys.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Walter Jones with us. Who scares you in the NFC? Hell,
who scares you in the AFC? Who's got the kryptonite
to beat the seas?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
In your opinion? Honestly, you know what I.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Said this man, I said that the NC West is
pretty tough.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Man.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I think that you know, you get three teams in
this di Bidgeon to go over ten wins, you know,
I tell people now, I say, now, with the way
these teams are coming together so fast, you know what
I'm saying, ten wins probably ain't guaranteed you to get
you in the playoff. You know, they all went can
last year and didn't make the playoffs. So I feel like,
you know, you have to take your head off to
the Rams. You got to take your hat off before
the nothers because we might have to meet those one
(08:10):
of those teams, one of those one of those guys again,
maybe in the next division round or in the NFC
Championship game. But then again, you got to look at Philly. Philly,
it's approved team. They know how to win, they know
when it gets tough, they know what to do to
get it done. So I look at Philly, and then
in the ALC. You know what I'm saying, you have
to wait till that time. And you know that that
the record showed that anybody in that provinsure can win.
(08:32):
So I think anybody that comes out of ALC is
going to be a tough opponent because you know, we
didn't play most of them. But still again, you know,
I'm looking at my own division in the NFC West,
and I'm knowing that they're probably gonna be a chance
that we're gonna get another match up with one of
those teams before it's all said and done.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Walt taking the number one seed. You've seen it firsthand,
how good that is for the Seahattle Seahawks. The first
time we ever did it, you were on the field
and it led to a Super Bowl appearance. What is
the two weeks like from now until when you get
to play?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
For me personally, like I tell people all the time,
you know when I first when we did that that year,
you know, you don't know because you've never been there.
So I tell people all the time, you don't know that.
Then you think, now, I think for me personally when
I do when we went through that and had home
field advantage, we had the fans there to be to
witness that with the fans, and then you think to yourself,
now it puts you all in perspective of you and
(09:25):
saying like when all the good teams, you know, you
think about the Patriots, all the Cowboys teams, all these
teams that was good teams during the season, and you know,
homegom counter set that standard too.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You've got to be great during the regular season.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Then you're gonna get water in the playoffs, and then
now you get two games.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
At home to get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
So anything that that stuff like, that's the kind of
stuff that gets you, you know, And now you're hearing
these guys. Some of these guys have never been on
winning team. So now these guys are learning this on
the go and they enjoying it. So you look at
them and say, we were just like us when we went.
We wasn't scarning that, we didn't know what we were
getting ourselves into. So I think these guys are in
the same boat. You've got these guys young, so even
if if thing's gonna go come out the way they're
(10:05):
supposed to come out, you're gonna have these guys for
a couple more years where this kid's gonna always be
in the hunt to win it all.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
You know, the thing I love about you.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I got to know you first about twenty twenty five,
twenty four years ago. We couldn't get two words out
of you. Now now you sound like you've had about
five gallons of coffee by the way before you before
you got out of your show. So I love how
freaking hyped up you are for this thing. But when
you played in the postseason, did you guys actually like
hope somebody won so you could get a shot at them, Like,
(10:36):
do you think there's any chance the Seahawks behind the
scenes are rooting for the Rams or the Niners to
come to town just so they can rip them one
more time.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
You know what the cool thing about that you're gonna
play this thing twice, So you know, from that standpoint, yes,
but if they get knocked out, you're happy.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
You know.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I don't think nobody is sitting there saying, you know what,
I want to get the forty nine ers again. I
want the Rams again because that you know what the
teams can do to you too, though, But like I
said earlier, these are the two teams that you have
to think about that you're probably gonna have to meet
before you get to that big game in Super Bowl.
But if somebody knocks them out, you know, we just
take on the next opponent. But then again, you know,
I think guys don't sit down and think, you know what,
(11:15):
we get the Rams one more time again, or were
definitely gonna let pok A go for two hundred some yard.
But still again, you just want to go out there
and you take on what's in front of you. And
I'm hopefully that in the end that we hold in
another trophy, man. So I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Hey, wal we appreciate it. Before I let you go,
I got to ask you about Pete Carroll Man three
and fourteen. I'm just absolutely stunned at the fact that
he couldn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
What'd you make of what happened in Vegas this year
with Pete?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
It's tough, man.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
I'll tell people all the time, I said, this game
now is I call it make Michael waves.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
People want it now. I want people want you to
turn it around.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Now.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
You're thinking, you look at what coach McDonald did and
did last two years. So that's where the owners looking at.
They looking at guys that can come in here and
change the narrative, change the culture. Right now, it's not
it's not it's over that. Given four years, give him
two ear let him get his guys in here. So
I think from that standpoint, I think that's the whole
point right there, where now you've got to go in
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now and you've got to flip now you can't. It's
not a you don't have a window. You just got
to do it now. And I think that's what the
owner is looking at it. And then you've got to
look at where is he just going to You've got
a lot of young coaches that are being very successful,
very quick, So you can't you can't think that those
owners are looking and saying, you know, we need to
get some younger kids in here and get some younger
guys to hear back.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
And change the game. And that's where you see the
game is going right now.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Hey, what's the you know what? Well, this is information
that's readily available on the internet, so I don't mind
asking you because anybody can look it up. What's the
what's the most guaranteed money you got in a contract
that you signed? You remember off the top of your head,
you remember, Oh, man, I.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Think my my biggest guarantee was the years that I
think we were trying to sign huts and I think
they flipped myns. I won't to say, and I won't
put a number out there, but I will saying it
was a large in the teams.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
In the teams team, well, Charles Crouss just got seventy
five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
By the way, I'll tell you, man, I.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Tell people, I tell them I said it never gonna
go down, So you know, you know, I never, I never.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
You know, look at that and say, wow, man, I
came up at the wrong time. I tell people. I'll
tell hey, I'm doing pretty good for myself, man. But no, no.
I tell people, if they give it to you, you
deserve it.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
So I'm never gonna look at another man's uh wallet
and say something, if they give it to you, you
deserve it.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I just wonder if you were born twenty years later, man, I.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Mean you would have been rich.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
I know you are rich.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Right, Hey, Walt, great stuff man. Great to hear your voice.
And now let's talk to and.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, sorry, thanks a lot guys, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Walter Jones man, just one of the all time best.
I mean, what what what that guy's done with his
broadcasting career. Like we talk about all the crazy things
that we never saw coming Oklahoma City, PA, That's one
of them, honestly. Like we're sitting there at the old
Northwest Colhich back on the day when they trained in
Kirkland Jackson talking to Walter Jones and you couldn't get
five words out of the guy during the season.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Now he's coming on the air and he.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Won't shut up. We had unbelievable I love having him on.
We had him on the morning show the monday after
the Seahawks drafted him. Oh oh whoa, And it was
like Mitch and I just looked at each other going like,
what the heck? Whoa wow? Yeah, I can imagine, dude,
But hey, you know what, good for him. He's awesome.
Now he's unbelievable. He has really turned it around. Man,
(14:31):
Not that he needed to. He was a quiet guy,
but he was the best left tackle on his To
answer your question, ye, what's what the sixty five point
four million that's the most he got. No, that's the
total that he got. Oh, the total total sixty five
point four is his career? Charles Cross just made seventy five? Well,
he becomes am I right on this. He's the third
Seahawks lineman drafted by Schneider to get a second deal.
It was Okugan, then Britt and now this guy. So
(14:52):
we're talking seventeen sixteen drafts, correct, I mean sixteen drafts
re alignment have gotten a second deal? You know what?
Speaker 8 (15:02):
You know what that makes me think of? Name the
last top two round draft pick that Schneider missed.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
On four years in a row. I saw a let
right they the last missed.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
They put the list up on ESPN since two thousand
and one, and there hasn't been one. So I know
he's nine for his last nine in the first and
second round. Now is if Arroyo is a hit, right,
we don't think he's a miss.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
No.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
I thought he was late second that was a second round. Yeah, okay,
so that's so weak.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That's still be up in the air one. But I
don't I wouldn't call him a miss. Here's the here's
the here's the first and second round. It was the
last few years. Gray's Abel in the first, even Worry
Arroyo in the second, Byron Murphy in the first, Witherspoon, JSN,
Derek Hall, Zach Sharboney hit hit, hit hit, Charles cross
boy A, Mafe, Kenny Walker hit hit.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
The last time was d S Ridge one, which is
still another which is another reason why when we have
these discussions of would you trade two first round picks?
Would you trade three first round picks for this guy?
John Schneider usually nails these. So with John Schneider, I
don't think I usually answer no to those questions.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Would you trade four first rounders for Sam Darnald?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Right now? Remember that conversation we had. I wouldn't do it.
I wouldn't do it. You got a quarterback, why would
you give it up? You know how many bums there
are in the NFL. Right now, how many teams would
cut their hands off for Sam Darnold to be their quarterback?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
All right, we're gonna break here we go. Man, been
waiting a while for this, extremely difficult before they were
so close.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
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Been waiting for this for a while. I have not
done this in a while, but a courtesy of our
friends at KNBR Radio in San Francisco, the sports Leader,
the flame Thrower, the flagship home of the San Francisco
(17:50):
forty nine Ers. Greg Papa and Tim Ryan on the
call on Saturday night. What did the Seahawk win over
San Francisco sound like on the radio network? It sounded
just like that. On fourth and goal, four.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Yard line, Jackson, Smith and jabot right against the Yamado Lenori.
They snap it, they throw left and it's wide to
Cooper Cup. The forty nine ers have held and they
take over on downs.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
What an absolute huge play and it is glove coverage.
Speaker 9 (18:21):
Sharbon A is in Cooper Cup goes in long motion
from left to right. They have three receivers to the right.
It's going to be a run to sharbon a big
hole on the cutback. Twenty fifteen, ten five down the
sideline touchdown.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Seattle his twelfth of the year. But this one goes
for twenty seven yards.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Well, what did I say in the pregame? You cannot peak.
If you're an edge defender, you cannot peek inside and
then Malik Mustafa just got dead legged out there and
went for it.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
They're standing in a true eye oots the two hundred
and seventy four pound fullback of the lead, Kenneth Walker
off the right side at gaping hole thirty thirty five
all the way out to the forty yard line before
d Winterers runs him down. Kenneth Walker rips off twenty
more yards on the ground.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Yeah, he's just cutting out right off the backside and
just playing the stunts that the forty nine ers are running.
And Jordan Elliot's just got to do a better job
against Abel the rookie left guard.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
But they are going to play action. Perdy will throw
on fourth down to Marcus Lawrence in his face. Brock
throws out and left broken up and complay try to
get to use check as a checkdown. Reek Walling was
all over him to cover up use check. But it
was the interior pressure that came from the former cowboy
to Marcus Lawrence.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Yeah, when they had all four guys flying up inside
de Marcus Lawrence working the edge, McCaffrey misses in protection
and boy, I'll tell you a good good effort by
Kyle Yuschek coming back and driving at that football or
that may be a house called pick six going the
other way.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
Purty under center. On second and seven, Brock a play
action deep seven step drop in the pocket and now
he gets sacked.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
We had a deep drop there and Jared Reed, the old.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
Guy on their defensive line able to get through from
the interior and pick up a debilitating sack.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That's a loss of seven yards. Now it's third and fourteen.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Yeah, and Rock feels it gets a little gunshot.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
Seattle's not been great on third down themselves tonight. They're
only three for seven. This is only a one score game,
ten to three. Get back into it right now. A
quick one out to Kenneth Walker coming wide right thirty thirty.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Five, breaks a tackle, spins out for the first down.
He converts on third and seventeen. Yeah, and we've seen
this a few times in this game. It's a crack pause.
Forty nine ers get out leverage and linebackers get blown up.
Tatum Bethoon very very late. He ends up getting blocked
by Bobo Wallow is late to the party and Walker
(20:47):
makes the most of it. That is an absolute killer.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Three left Kittle right rock looking right, rocking a throw.
It is low, it juggled, intercepted. McCaffrey dropped the ball
and it was intercepted by the linebacker Drake Thomas. Did
he stay in bounds after he intercepted the ball? Mofa
may have got a finger on that. And what a
great play because he's in tight coverage by Drake Thomas.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
And definitely intercepted the ball.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
That is unbelievable. And unlike the forty nine ers defensively
who couldn't capitalize on a takeaway opportunity, Drake Thomas does
exactly that.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
Did Have you seen Christian McCaffrey not catch a football
like that and bobble the ball away? Three receivers left,
Shaheed right, Donald back. On third down, Donald gonna get
out to his right, traced by Kendricks and Unklewano throws
the Cooper Cup for a first down inside the nine
or twenty all the way down to.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The eleven yard line.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
It was a long time la Ram forty nine or
tormentor Cooper Cup coming from that three side. Tim on
an in cut in twenty five yards and he sat
down to the zone.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Then well, no, he was coming from the backside pop.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Sam Donald takes the last knee and the game is
over and the forty nine Ers as quite possibly could
be the last home game they played. We were looking
at winning the nine and then two playoff games all
the way to the super Bowl, But right now they're
gonna have to go on the wildcard route, So the Niners.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Do lose a total nightmare situation.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Now for the forty nine Ers, they go from being
able to play the Super Bowl and every playoff game
in their own stadium to giving the Seahawks the upper
hand of planning their own flag on their own fifty
yard line in a month from now and winning the
championship in their own park, which would irritate the piss
out of me if I were a Niner fan. I
mean that's horrible, right, Like can you imagine like a
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Husky Stadium hosted the National Championship and here comes to
Oregon for example, or off Lumenfield hosted the Super Bowl
and here comes the forty nine Ers. So that, to
me is another reason why I want to get this done. Now.
This opportunity is dude, everything's lining up league wide open,
number one seed, No, Josh Allen Well, No, Josh Allen,
like we are used to seeing no Mahomes, no Lamar Jackson,
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no Lions. Right, Eagles are maybe having a down year.
And oh, by the way, Dick, let's also rub it
in the ers face. With a chance to win the
Super Bowl in their stadium, everything is lighting up for
a maybe once in a lifetime opportunity. That's right.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
I'm wondering if they did the same thing they did
in twenty thirteen leaving the Metal Lands. Remember they left
some stuff in the locker room. Yes, they said we're
gonna come and get this in the Super Bowl. You
saw what happened one Saturday.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
They did this. They did, they did they I didn't
see that they left cigars in there. Oh, they left
the cigars. I thought they smoked cigar. There's there's a photo.
It was John Boyle. I think it was cam Inman.
I think is the one that sent it out. I
may have retweeted it, by the way, but there definitely
was a photo going around of them leaving. What did
they leave in New York? Do you remember what they
left in New York? Was it like a twelfth Man
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flag or something or whatever? Somethings? Locker room you're a
thousand percent right. They definitely did that. Somebody will text
in four nine four or five one what it was.
But they left two cigars in the locker room. I
don't think those cigars will still be there, by the way.
Somebody will pick them up and go away. Maybe we'll
find out in a month that they left something in there.
Maybe they left a pair of underwear, you know, a
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couple of pairs of leaps or whatever. But you're exactly right,
they did do that. But this is another reason why
this thing is so special. And going back to Saturday
night guys, look, I realized there's some negative nellies and
nitpickers out there. They'll talk about the thirteen points. First
of all, you heard those guys tell you that Rieke
Willen was like two inches away from a pick six
on that sideline route there. So if he catches that ball,
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he's gone first and goal. You got to score two
miss field goals. I mean, you left at least minimum
thirteen points on the board and maybe could have had
twenty more. You were that close to blowing their doors off,
and the box score says that you blew their doors off.
I just had the ball for thirty eight minutes. Dick Oh,
it was a total domination.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I think there were two plays that I would love
to have back, as far as going forward or kicking
the field goal. Kick the damn field goal in the
first drive, I mean to give yourself points. And then
on the flip side of the end of the game.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I would have gone go for it. Agreed, totally agreed.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
You were already up two scores. A field goal keeps
you up two scores. A touchdown you're up three.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It's over.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Game's over now, totally.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I just I mean again, I'm glad that those things
happen and wins that you can learn lessons from them.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The first and goal thing, I don't want to blame
Clint Kubiak because the guy called a play that resulted
in a wide open receiver. You got to make that play.
I mean, as Millan said, that's a double minus. I mean,
it's terrible play by Sam Darnold. There's no need to
mince words. Then the play calling on second and third
down was terrible by Clint Kubiak. I thought maybe he
had Bobo open across the middle, but he may have
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had a linebacker between him and Bobo and not been
able to get the ball over there. That was just
a disastrous sequence. But that was the worst it got.
Everything from then on was gravy. And you look at
all the drives, by the way, Dick that the Seahawks
did not score on. They had three drives in this
game where they had a missfield goal, a missfield goal
and they get to the one yard line and cannot
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punch it in from the one. Those three drives, even
though they didn't yield any fruit, they took up twenty
minutes of clock time. They spent one third of the
game not keeping the Niners offense on the sideline, just
doing whatever they wanted to do. Frustrating that they couldn't score,
but they were moving the ball that will against those guys.
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And yet I still had this like, I never agree
with you.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
I never felt like we were going to lose the game,
but I did have an impending sense of dread for
a good stretch of the game because it's like.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Says, you're a negative bastard. Nobody.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
I'm very positive watching games, But when you don't capitalize
on kicking the crap out of your opponents and leave
them to be one weird play away like, I don't know,
maybe dropping a handoff and not getting that. I mean,
those that's what worried me about that game, as we
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were one massively double negative play away from a tai
football game, and fortunately that play never came.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Well, if your kicker didn't have a complete brain fart
of a game. I mean, the guy gives him a
field goal with a kickoff that goes out of and
they get the ball to forty and then he missed
his two field goals. One of them was a chip shot.
Should have made both those kicks. I mean, he had
a terrible day. But yeah, look, I mean you you
do you know I agree with you that you play
a tight game like that and this idea that you
can just you know whatever. No, I mean when when
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the ball's in the air on that fumble, when he
stepped on Sundell's foot for about half a second, I
was like, oh God, are you kidding me, it's just
really going to go Because the Niners had no right
to win that game, no, none, Well, and then they
no right to win that game.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Sam did what he has done in the past when
things break down, and you know, I love Sam. But
he even admitted after the game. I probably shouldn't have
tried to hang to hand the ball off your tripped
like that. Just fund ball like a little six month
old baby and go down.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Man, you don't need to make that play. Hold it
like an egg and just go Yeah. Those are the
things that yeah, but again you're glad that it happened
during a win. Let me ask you this real quick
before you get the break. What's the reaction if Carol
raises the flag at the playoff game. Oh, there's no way.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
There's zero there's zero zero zero, zero time out.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Okay, okay, fair enough, I'm not saying.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
It's going to happenir enough. If they just all of
a sudden put a video board up there and here
comes Pete Carroll and he raises the flag. Okay, back
and he's a part of the family again, he's available.
I personally think people go bananas if he raises the flag.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
I think after the first second shell shot, I think
they're fired off. I think it's I think it's one
where i'd rather have. I'd rather know ahead of time.
Sometimes I know who the twelve man person is going
to be ahead of time. Sometimes I don't. I would
rather know ahead of time so I could process it
internally and you then be able to go nuts when
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he does.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
You said.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
For five seconds, you're like, what the hell?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yes, pet Carrol lose They would lose their mind if
Pete Carroll did that, because here's what I want, you
know what I don't want for the game next weekend
or whatever. Can we not do Bill Freak and I
I the science guy or something dumb like that, Michael Bennet,
Cliff Fance, don't do some dude that climbed Mount Rain here.
Don't do some guy that you know the Atlantic Ocean
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about it walk to Peru.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Okay, but I think I think I think we can
I don't know. Maybe we can't all agree. The NFC
Championship game is going to be Joe every that's that's done.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You know what, we were a little bit skeptical.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
When she took over, Like she said, John Schneider, you
just stole the guy in charge. And you know, Pete Carroll,
you're out about John Schneider. How about he raises the flag.
He's never done it, he's never done.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
But you park his sweaty ass out there, and I'm
gon endorsement with right with right Guard.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
What he's done? That was a rough photo. Did you
see how much he was pitting out? Are you kidding
me out of it?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
They had to mop the floor in that sweet when
he was out.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Last year in the Giants game, remember that miserable game
that we lost. Thomas would have been a great choice
because he was up for the Hall of Fame. And
by the way, the fact that he was not a
finalists a joke, okay, and the Hall of Fame continues
to be a joke.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
But he did it earlier this year in the game
that nobody watched the Texans.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I got an idea, Okay, bring a tier to everybody's eye.
How about Mia Hammett's family. That would bring a tier? Yeah,
I don't know, man, I just think Pete Carroll. You
know you're right, Jackson, it will never happen. He probably
would never do it. Doesn't want to step on anybody's toes,
doesn't want to be the story. I get it all that,
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but I think people would lose their ever v Yes,
but this is the this is the time to do it, dude.
Come on, man, let's make it happen. Get Pete back
in rusted it.
Speaker 9 (30:45):
Boom.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
No, no, no, it's not a horrible idea. Is he available?
Is he officially a free agent?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, he's on a one year contract. Yeah, he's a
free agent. How about the two of them do it together.
I don't know, man, I just think that there's content
exchanges so much. Right now that Pete Carroll's done, now
that Russell Wilson's done, we can bring them back and
they belong to us again. And I think you're right, Jackson,
that people would just go bananas if Pete Carroll raised
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Maybe the best left tackle of all time in the
history of the National Football League. We had the honor
of watching this man play every single Sunday for a
long long time.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
And he's back with us now on the radio show.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Our old friend Walter Jones, Big Walt joins us right
now on the radio program Walt, Happy New Year. How
are you, man?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I'm doing good. Gods happy to you too, New Year.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
That's good to have you back on the show. So
tell us about your response to this year. Man, how
kind of out of the blue for you? Fourteen and three,
number one seed, maybe the favorite to win the Super
Bowl right now? How much of this did you actually
see coming? And how much of this is even a
surprise to you?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Do you know what?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
I'm thanking you a I think they're more surprised it
is that, you know in a new quarterback. You know,
I wasn't. I wasn't strange about the receiver's leavement. I
was just like, Okay, how is a new quarterback go
to come in here and be able to increment what
they wanted to do? And then basically he did the
exact same that he did when he was at Minnesota.
So for me personally, the way that Sam came in
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here and the way he played football since he'd been here,
it's pretty amazing. Even though with all the other negative
stuff that's behind him, the numbers that he didn't put
up in the last two years, I'm kind of glad
that he's on our team and we got him for
about more years.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
What'd you make what you saw Saturday night?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
As far as the game plan, I mean, obviously they
stuck to the run. They just kept going to it
because the Niners couldn't couldn't stop it, and it was
pretty conservative and that's why the game was so close.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
But did you like that game plan?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
I thought it was a perfect game plan. I think
a lot of times, you know, when you see the
running backs and I thought, I said, I was watching
the game and I was saying to myself. I said, man, something,
that's any running back, because especially with Kate nine, you know,
K nine is that kind of running back that's I
could hit the home run ball every time. But I
felt like both of those running back had a plan
when they came in the game. So you got to
take your head off to the coaches and let them know,
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just hit the hole. I thought that's what they did
throughout the whole game. And I kind of took the
running game to the forty nine ers. You know, I
thought that forty nine had all the hype coming into
the game. You kind of felt like people thought like
there was easy for the forty nine ers, you know,
once they figured out their scenario what's going to happen.
It was just thinking that, Okay, we're just gonna win
this game because it's then our home field. But still again,
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I thought the game plan and the way the defense,
you know, you got to take your head off the
way the defense to play the defense the way that
they came out there and kind of shut that offense
down because that offense has been hot for the last couple.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Of weeks, and for that defense.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
To go in there on their home field and shut
them down, like that. That was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Well, let's go back and talk about the offensive line
for a second. Wall we'll talk about the defense in
a minute. From your Perspective by Walter Jones with us
on the radio show. So, honestly, man, what's the difference
between this offensive line that we're seeing today versus the
one that we saw just a couple of years ago. Remember,
we would have you one constantly yelling at you like
it was your fault about the offensive line? Man, how
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much different are do things looking? Why are they different?
In your opinion, I.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Think they kind of took a look at in their
own face and say, okay, we got to start from
the inside out. You know, the inside out. You know,
you take care of these guys. You try to figure
out when I came into the game, where you know
you you you set the left tackle of the left guard.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
So, I think what they have going on right now,
all these guys are young, And I said that the
cool thing about it, these guys have been together all season.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
And that's pretty.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Amazing that those guys really was together the whole season.
That was not no major injuries where guys was missing plays,
these guys have been together all season. So I think
that's that's a very positive thing for this offense that
you have these guys that's been together a whole season,
the whole training camp, the whole preseason, and now you're
seeing what these guys have done, what they have put
together for these guys. So these guys are going to
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be good for a long time.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Man.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
You keep the young guys, and you know, Across just
got paid. So that telling me now that they're thinking
about this offensive line and what this offensive line can be.
So I think these guys the sky is the limit, man,
for them to be at this level, this early, this young,
all you can know is that that's gonna be a
lot of success.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Big wal Walter joins Jones, the Hall of Famer, joining us, Say,
you mentioned Charles Cross. Give us your opinion of what
you've seen from Charles Cross throughout his career and also
the development just within this season.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I think he's become in one of those I guess,
you know, you look at the line already. You know
he's like one of the older Vets already, and you
know you're seeing he got his a stenching. But I
think every year he just got better and better, consistently
better and better, you know, saying you can pick out
players and say he didn't do this or do this.
But from a standpoint, I think offensive liners. I feel
like offense line have to be thrown in the fire.
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You know, you can probably sit a quarterback or any
other position. You can sit them and let them learn.
But I think offensive lineas you learn on the go.
You know, when you're throwing the far, you learn from
your mistake. So to keep him here, to keep him
locked up. And then now you got a young guy Zabeled,
that's going to be right there by his side. Man,
that's gonna be pretty amazing. Kind of going to give
you that old feeling the back when seventy six and
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seventy one was out there, but still in again, these
guys are young and they want to be great. The
cool thing about all these guys, they want to be great.
So I'm happy for these guys and I'm happy for
the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
That's high praise.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Back in the day when seventy six and seventy one,
Holy moment to see that again, I mean, we is
this the best?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Honestly in your opinion, is this the best duo since then,
I would.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Say, you know, like they still learn it. Man.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I think the whole point is like just being out
there and giving the experience, and they gonna get that
experience together, you know, if you get a guy that's right. Besides,
you know, Hutch came in this game kind of like
they came in. You know, he was a plug and
play guy. So you know that day one, I think
everybody said that, you know, from the trance staff to
the coaches, this guy is a day one guy. And
now if you put him with Charles Cross and now
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you can kind of see what this team can really
be if you b up from the inside out.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
And now you see it that success.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Well, what are you seeing up front, specifically in the
blocking scheme that's helping out the running backs, because those
running backs were getting shut down for most of the
first two months of the season and things have opened
up for him.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I'm thinking this all about a destiny, you know. I
think a lot of times you know your run plays,
your run plays, and then all of a sudden you
sit down and you decide, Okay, these are our best plays.
And I think you know, once they knew understood what
their stance was what they're going to do, you know,
and I tell people all the time, I felt like
a lot of that was you know, uh, these last
couple of games where you know, you didn't see the
offense putting up numbers and the defense was doing what
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they're doing. I felt like, you know, you got a
young guy McDonald, That guy is gonna always you know,
they always thinking about the next series or thinking about
the next game.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So but what they're doing is just these guys are
getting up to the second level.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Anytime you got athletic alignments that can get up to
the second level, you see these guys out on the screen,
you know, when you get these guys to move it
and you seeing that they want more athletic big boys,
but not just the big oversized guys. You want guys
that can move, guys that you're running screens with. And
I think that's the cool thing that you got. You know,
you don't catch a lot of line is that you know,
you're running screens all the time, You running screens all
the time, but these guys can get out in the
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open field and make plays. And you kind of saw
that in these last couple of games where these guys
are getting out and I always tell people business that
if you're running back and get to the line of scrims,
you're going to have done your job. So in this game,
I felt like those guys definitely came out on a
mission to these guys to the second level. And then
once you got those guys to the second level, you
can see what these two running backs can do. So
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I think these guys can can move guys around, and
it looks fun for those guys.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Walter Jones with us. Who scares you in the NFC? Hell,
who scares you in the AFC? Who's got the kryptonite
to beat the seas?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
In your opinion? Honestly, you know what I.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Said this man, I said that the NC West is
pretty tough.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Man.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I think that you know, you get three teams in
this di Bidgeon to go over ten wins, you know,
I tell people now, I say, now, with the way
these teams are coming together so fast, you know what
I'm saying, ten wins probably ain't guaranteed you to get
you in the playoff. You know, they all went can
last year and didn't make the playoffs. So I feel like,
you know, you have to take your head off to
the Rams. You got to take your hat off before
the nothers because we might have to meet those one
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of those teams, one of those one of those guys again,
maybe in the next division round or in the NFC
Championship game. But then again, you got to look at Philly. Philly,
it's approved team. They know how to win, they know
when it gets tough, they know what to do to
get it done. So I look at Philly, and then
in the ALC. You know what I'm saying, you have
to wait till that time. And you know that that
the record showed that anybody in that provinsure can win.
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So I think anybody that comes out of ALC is
going to be a tough opponent because you know, we
didn't play most of them. But still again, you know,
I'm looking at my own division in the NFC West,
and I'm knowing that they're probably gonna be a chance
that we're gonna get another match up with one of
those teams before it's all said and done.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Walt taking the number one seed. You've seen it firsthand,
how good that is for the Seahattle Seahawks. The first
time we ever did it, you were on the field
and it led to a Super Bowl appearance. What is
the two weeks like from now until when you get
to play?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
For me personally, like I tell people all the time,
you know when I first when we did that that year,
you know, you don't know because you've never been there.
So I tell people all the time, you don't know that.
Then you think, now, I think for me personally when
I do when we went through that and had home
field advantage, we had the fans there to be to
witness that with the fans, and then you think to yourself,
now it puts you all in perspective of you and
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saying like when all the good teams, you know, you
think about the Patriots, all the Cowboys teams, all these
teams that was good teams during the season, and you know,
homegom counter set that standard too.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You've got to be great during the regular season.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Then you're gonna get water in the playoffs, and then
now you get two games.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
At home to get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
So anything that that stuff like, that's the kind of
stuff that gets you, you know, And now you're hearing
these guys. Some of these guys have never been on
winning team. So now these guys are learning this on
the go and they enjoying it. So you look at
them and say, we were just like us when we went.
We wasn't scarning that, we didn't know what we were
getting ourselves into. So I think these guys are in
the same boat. You've got these guys young, so even
if if thing's gonna go come out the way they're
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supposed to come out, you're gonna have these guys for
a couple more years where this kid's gonna always be
in the hunt to win it all.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
You know, the thing I love about you.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I got to know you first about twenty twenty five,
twenty four years ago. We couldn't get two words out
of you. Now now you sound like you've had about
five gallons of coffee by the way before you before
you got out of your show. So I love how
freaking hyped up you are for this thing. But when
you played in the postseason, did you guys actually like
hope somebody won so you could get a shot at them, Like,
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do you think there's any chance the Seahawks behind the
scenes are rooting for the Rams or the Niners to
come to town just so they can rip them one
more time.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
You know what the cool thing about that you're gonna
play this thing twice, So you know, from that standpoint, yes,
but if they get knocked out, you're happy.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
You know.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I don't think nobody is sitting there saying, you know what,
I want to get the forty nine ers again. I
want the Rams again because that you know what the
teams can do to you too, though, But like I
said earlier, these are the two teams that you have
to think about that you're probably gonna have to meet
before you get to that big game in Super Bowl.
But if somebody knocks them out, you know, we just
take on the next opponent. But then again, you know,
I think guys don't sit down and think, you know what,
(11:15):
we get the Rams one more time again, or were
definitely gonna let pok A go for two hundred some yard.
But still again, you just want to go out there
and you take on what's in front of you. And
I'm hopefully that in the end that we hold in
another trophy, man. So I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Hey, wal we appreciate it. Before I let you go,
I got to ask you about Pete Carroll Man three
and fourteen. I'm just absolutely stunned at the fact that
he couldn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
What'd you make of what happened in Vegas this year
with Pete?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
It's tough, man.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
I'll tell people all the time, I said, this game
now is I call it make Michael waves.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
People want it now. I want people want you to
turn it around.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Now.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
You're thinking, you look at what coach McDonald did and
did last two years. So that's where the owners looking at.
They looking at guys that can come in here and
change the narrative, change the culture. Right now, it's not
it's not it's over that. Given four years, give him
two ear let him get his guys in here. So
I think from that standpoint, I think that's the whole
point right there, where now you've got to go in
(12:13):
now and you've got to flip now you can't. It's
not a you don't have a window. You just got
to do it now. And I think that's what the
owner is looking at it. And then you've got to
look at where is he just going to You've got
a lot of young coaches that are being very successful,
very quick, So you can't you can't think that those
owners are looking and saying, you know, we need to
get some younger kids in here and get some younger
guys to hear back.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
And change the game. And that's where you see the
game is going right now.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Hey, what's the you know what? Well, this is information
that's readily available on the internet, so I don't mind
asking you because anybody can look it up. What's the
what's the most guaranteed money you got in a contract
that you signed? You remember off the top of your head,
you remember, Oh, man, I.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Think my my biggest guarantee was the years that I
think we were trying to sign huts and I think
they flipped myns. I won't to say, and I won't
put a number out there, but I will saying it
was a large in the teams.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
In the teams team, well, Charles Crouss just got seventy
five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
By the way, I'll tell you, man, I.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Tell people, I tell them I said it never gonna
go down, So you know, you know, I never, I never.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
You know, look at that and say, wow, man, I
came up at the wrong time. I tell people. I'll
tell hey, I'm doing pretty good for myself, man. But no, no.
I tell people, if they give it to you, you
deserve it.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
So I'm never gonna look at another man's uh wallet
and say something, if they give it to you, you
deserve it.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I just wonder if you were born twenty years later, man, I.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Mean you would have been rich.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
I know you are rich.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Right, Hey, Walt, great stuff man. Great to hear your voice.
And now let's talk to and.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, sorry, thanks a lot guys, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Walter Jones man, just one of the all time best.
I mean, what what what that guy's done with his
broadcasting career. Like we talk about all the crazy things
that we never saw coming Oklahoma City, PA, That's one
of them, honestly. Like we're sitting there at the old
Northwest Colhich back on the day when they trained in
Kirkland Jackson talking to Walter Jones and you couldn't get
five words out of the guy during the season.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Now he's coming on the air and he.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Won't shut up. We had unbelievable I love having him on.
We had him on the morning show the monday after
the Seahawks drafted him. Oh oh whoa, And it was
like Mitch and I just looked at each other going like,
what the heck? Whoa wow? Yeah, I can imagine, dude,
But hey, you know what, good for him. He's awesome.
Now he's unbelievable. He has really turned it around. Man,
(14:31):
Not that he needed to. He was a quiet guy,
but he was the best left tackle on his To
answer your question, ye, what's what the sixty five point
four million that's the most he got. No, that's the
total that he got. Oh, the total total sixty five
point four is his career? Charles Cross just made seventy five? Well,
he becomes am I right on this. He's the third
Seahawks lineman drafted by Schneider to get a second deal.
It was Okugan, then Britt and now this guy. So
(14:52):
we're talking seventeen sixteen drafts, correct, I mean sixteen drafts
re alignment have gotten a second deal? You know what?
Speaker 8 (15:02):
You know what that makes me think of? Name the
last top two round draft pick that Schneider missed.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
On four years in a row. I saw a let
right they the last missed.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
They put the list up on ESPN since two thousand
and one, and there hasn't been one. So I know
he's nine for his last nine in the first and
second round. Now is if Arroyo is a hit, right,
we don't think he's a miss.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
No.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
I thought he was late second that was a second round. Yeah, okay,
so that's so weak.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That's still be up in the air one. But I
don't I wouldn't call him a miss. Here's the here's
the here's the first and second round. It was the
last few years. Gray's Abel in the first, even Worry
Arroyo in the second, Byron Murphy in the first, Witherspoon, JSN,
Derek Hall, Zach Sharboney hit hit, hit hit, Charles cross
boy A, Mafe, Kenny Walker hit hit.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
The last time was d S Ridge one, which is
still another which is another reason why when we have
these discussions of would you trade two first round picks?
Would you trade three first round picks for this guy?
John Schneider usually nails these. So with John Schneider, I
don't think I usually answer no to those questions.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Would you trade four first rounders for Sam Darnald?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Right now? Remember that conversation we had. I wouldn't do it.
I wouldn't do it. You got a quarterback, why would
you give it up? You know how many bums there
are in the NFL. Right now, how many teams would
cut their hands off for Sam Darnold to be their quarterback?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
All right, we're gonna break here we go. Man, been
waiting a while for this, extremely difficult before they were
so close.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
So close. The Seahawk opponent audio recap with K and
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But yeah, zempick and what's the other gut shot going
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Sad sadday, Man, yeah, all right, Well here we go.
Been waiting for this for a while. I have not
done this in a while, but a courtesy of our
friends at KNBR Radio in San Francisco, the sports Leader,
the flame Thrower, the flagship home of the San Francisco
(17:50):
forty nine Ers. Greg Papa and Tim Ryan on the
call on Saturday night. What did the Seahawk win over
San Francisco sound like on the radio network? It sounded
just like that. On fourth and goal, four.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Yard line, Jackson, Smith and jabot right against the Yamado Lenori.
They snap it, they throw left and it's wide to
Cooper Cup. The forty nine ers have held and they
take over on downs.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
What an absolute huge play and it is glove coverage.
Speaker 9 (18:21):
Sharbon A is in Cooper Cup goes in long motion
from left to right. They have three receivers to the right.
It's going to be a run to sharbon a big
hole on the cutback. Twenty fifteen, ten five down the
sideline touchdown.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Seattle his twelfth of the year. But this one goes
for twenty seven yards.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Well, what did I say in the pregame? You cannot peak.
If you're an edge defender, you cannot peek inside and
then Malik Mustafa just got dead legged out there and
went for it.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
They're standing in a true eye oots the two hundred
and seventy four pound fullback of the lead, Kenneth Walker
off the right side at gaping hole thirty thirty five
all the way out to the forty yard line before
d Winterers runs him down. Kenneth Walker rips off twenty
more yards on the ground.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Yeah, he's just cutting out right off the backside and
just playing the stunts that the forty nine ers are running.
And Jordan Elliot's just got to do a better job
against Abel the rookie left guard.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
But they are going to play action. Perdy will throw
on fourth down to Marcus Lawrence in his face. Brock
throws out and left broken up and complay try to
get to use check as a checkdown. Reek Walling was
all over him to cover up use check. But it
was the interior pressure that came from the former cowboy
to Marcus Lawrence.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
Yeah, when they had all four guys flying up inside
de Marcus Lawrence working the edge, McCaffrey misses in protection
and boy, I'll tell you a good good effort by
Kyle Yuschek coming back and driving at that football or
that may be a house called pick six going the
other way.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
Purty under center. On second and seven, Brock a play
action deep seven step drop in the pocket and now
he gets sacked.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
We had a deep drop there and Jared Reed, the old.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
Guy on their defensive line able to get through from
the interior and pick up a debilitating sack.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That's a loss of seven yards. Now it's third and fourteen.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Yeah, and Rock feels it gets a little gunshot.
Speaker 9 (20:12):
Seattle's not been great on third down themselves tonight. They're
only three for seven. This is only a one score game,
ten to three. Get back into it right now. A
quick one out to Kenneth Walker coming wide right thirty thirty.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Five, breaks a tackle, spins out for the first down.
He converts on third and seventeen. Yeah, and we've seen
this a few times in this game. It's a crack pause.
Forty nine ers get out leverage and linebackers get blown up.
Tatum Bethoon very very late. He ends up getting blocked
by Bobo Wallow is late to the party and Walker
(20:47):
makes the most of it. That is an absolute killer.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Three left Kittle right rock looking right, rocking a throw.
It is low, it juggled, intercepted. McCaffrey dropped the ball
and it was intercepted by the linebacker Drake Thomas. Did
he stay in bounds after he intercepted the ball? Mofa
may have got a finger on that. And what a
great play because he's in tight coverage by Drake Thomas.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
And definitely intercepted the ball.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
That is unbelievable. And unlike the forty nine ers defensively
who couldn't capitalize on a takeaway opportunity, Drake Thomas does
exactly that.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
Did Have you seen Christian McCaffrey not catch a football
like that and bobble the ball away? Three receivers left,
Shaheed right, Donald back. On third down, Donald gonna get
out to his right, traced by Kendricks and Unklewano throws
the Cooper Cup for a first down inside the nine
or twenty all the way down to.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The eleven yard line.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
It was a long time la Ram forty nine or
tormentor Cooper Cup coming from that three side. Tim on
an in cut in twenty five yards and he sat
down to the zone.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Then well, no, he was coming from the backside pop.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Sam Donald takes the last knee and the game is
over and the forty nine Ers as quite possibly could
be the last home game they played. We were looking
at winning the nine and then two playoff games all
the way to the super Bowl, But right now they're
gonna have to go on the wildcard route, So the Niners.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Do lose a total nightmare situation.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Now for the forty nine Ers, they go from being
able to play the Super Bowl and every playoff game
in their own stadium to giving the Seahawks the upper
hand of planning their own flag on their own fifty
yard line in a month from now and winning the
championship in their own park, which would irritate the piss
out of me if I were a Niner fan. I
mean that's horrible, right, Like can you imagine like a
(22:32):
Husky Stadium hosted the National Championship and here comes to
Oregon for example, or off Lumenfield hosted the Super Bowl
and here comes the forty nine Ers. So that, to
me is another reason why I want to get this done. Now.
This opportunity is dude, everything's lining up league wide open,
number one seed, No, Josh Allen Well, No, Josh Allen,
like we are used to seeing no Mahomes, no Lamar Jackson,
(22:53):
no Lions. Right, Eagles are maybe having a down year.
And oh, by the way, Dick, let's also rub it
in the ers face. With a chance to win the
Super Bowl in their stadium, everything is lighting up for
a maybe once in a lifetime opportunity. That's right.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
I'm wondering if they did the same thing they did
in twenty thirteen leaving the Metal Lands. Remember they left
some stuff in the locker room. Yes, they said we're
gonna come and get this in the Super Bowl. You
saw what happened one Saturday.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
They did this. They did, they did they I didn't
see that they left cigars in there. Oh, they left
the cigars. I thought they smoked cigar. There's there's a photo.
It was John Boyle. I think it was cam Inman.
I think is the one that sent it out. I
may have retweeted it, by the way, but there definitely
was a photo going around of them leaving. What did
they leave in New York? Do you remember what they
left in New York? Was it like a twelfth Man
(23:38):
flag or something or whatever? Somethings? Locker room you're a
thousand percent right. They definitely did that. Somebody will text
in four nine four or five one what it was.
But they left two cigars in the locker room. I
don't think those cigars will still be there, by the way.
Somebody will pick them up and go away. Maybe we'll
find out in a month that they left something in there.
Maybe they left a pair of underwear, you know, a
(23:59):
couple of pairs of leaps or whatever. But you're exactly right,
they did do that. But this is another reason why
this thing is so special. And going back to Saturday
night guys, look, I realized there's some negative nellies and
nitpickers out there. They'll talk about the thirteen points. First
of all, you heard those guys tell you that Rieke
Willen was like two inches away from a pick six
on that sideline route there. So if he catches that ball,
(24:19):
he's gone first and goal. You got to score two
miss field goals. I mean, you left at least minimum
thirteen points on the board and maybe could have had
twenty more. You were that close to blowing their doors off,
and the box score says that you blew their doors off.
I just had the ball for thirty eight minutes. Dick Oh,
it was a total domination.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I think there were two plays that I would love
to have back, as far as going forward or kicking
the field goal. Kick the damn field goal in the
first drive, I mean to give yourself points. And then
on the flip side of the end of the game.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I would have gone go for it. Agreed, totally agreed.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
You were already up two scores. A field goal keeps
you up two scores. A touchdown you're up three.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It's over.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Game's over now, totally.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I just I mean again, I'm glad that those things
happen and wins that you can learn lessons from them.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The first and goal thing, I don't want to blame
Clint Kubiak because the guy called a play that resulted
in a wide open receiver. You got to make that play.
I mean, as Millan said, that's a double minus. I mean,
it's terrible play by Sam Darnold. There's no need to
mince words. Then the play calling on second and third
down was terrible by Clint Kubiak. I thought maybe he
had Bobo open across the middle, but he may have
(25:30):
had a linebacker between him and Bobo and not been
able to get the ball over there. That was just
a disastrous sequence. But that was the worst it got.
Everything from then on was gravy. And you look at
all the drives, by the way, Dick that the Seahawks
did not score on. They had three drives in this
game where they had a missfield goal, a missfield goal
and they get to the one yard line and cannot
(25:52):
punch it in from the one. Those three drives, even
though they didn't yield any fruit, they took up twenty
minutes of clock time. They spent one third of the
game not keeping the Niners offense on the sideline, just
doing whatever they wanted to do. Frustrating that they couldn't score,
but they were moving the ball that will against those guys.
(26:14):
And yet I still had this like, I never agree
with you.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
I never felt like we were going to lose the game,
but I did have an impending sense of dread for
a good stretch of the game because it's like.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Says, you're a negative bastard. Nobody.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
I'm very positive watching games, But when you don't capitalize
on kicking the crap out of your opponents and leave
them to be one weird play away like, I don't know,
maybe dropping a handoff and not getting that. I mean,
those that's what worried me about that game, as we
(26:48):
were one massively double negative play away from a tai
football game, and fortunately that play never came.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Well, if your kicker didn't have a complete brain fart
of a game. I mean, the guy gives him a
field goal with a kickoff that goes out of and
they get the ball to forty and then he missed
his two field goals. One of them was a chip shot.
Should have made both those kicks. I mean, he had
a terrible day. But yeah, look, I mean you you
do you know I agree with you that you play
a tight game like that and this idea that you
can just you know whatever. No, I mean when when
(27:14):
the ball's in the air on that fumble, when he
stepped on Sundell's foot for about half a second, I
was like, oh God, are you kidding me, it's just
really going to go Because the Niners had no right
to win that game, no, none, Well, and then they
no right to win that game.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Sam did what he has done in the past when
things break down, and you know, I love Sam. But
he even admitted after the game. I probably shouldn't have
tried to hang to hand the ball off your tripped
like that. Just fund ball like a little six month
old baby and go down.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Man, you don't need to make that play. Hold it
like an egg and just go Yeah. Those are the
things that yeah, but again you're glad that it happened
during a win. Let me ask you this real quick
before you get the break. What's the reaction if Carol
raises the flag at the playoff game. Oh, there's no way.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
There's zero there's zero zero zero, zero time out.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Okay, okay, fair enough, I'm not saying.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
It's going to happenir enough. If they just all of
a sudden put a video board up there and here
comes Pete Carroll and he raises the flag. Okay, back
and he's a part of the family again, he's available.
I personally think people go bananas if he raises the flag.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
I think after the first second shell shot, I think
they're fired off. I think it's I think it's one
where i'd rather have. I'd rather know ahead of time.
Sometimes I know who the twelve man person is going
to be ahead of time. Sometimes I don't. I would
rather know ahead of time so I could process it
internally and you then be able to go nuts when
(28:49):
he does.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
You said.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
For five seconds, you're like, what the hell?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yes, pet Carrol lose They would lose their mind if
Pete Carroll did that, because here's what I want, you
know what I don't want for the game next weekend
or whatever. Can we not do Bill Freak and I
I the science guy or something dumb like that, Michael Bennet,
Cliff Fance, don't do some dude that climbed Mount Rain here.
Don't do some guy that you know the Atlantic Ocean
(29:15):
about it walk to Peru.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Okay, but I think I think I think we can
I don't know. Maybe we can't all agree. The NFC
Championship game is going to be Joe every that's that's done.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You know what, we were a little bit skeptical.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
When she took over, Like she said, John Schneider, you
just stole the guy in charge. And you know, Pete Carroll,
you're out about John Schneider. How about he raises the flag.
He's never done it, he's never done.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
But you park his sweaty ass out there, and I'm
gon endorsement with right with right Guard.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
What he's done? That was a rough photo. Did you
see how much he was pitting out? Are you kidding
me out of it?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
They had to mop the floor in that sweet when
he was out.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Last year in the Giants game, remember that miserable game
that we lost. Thomas would have been a great choice
because he was up for the Hall of Fame. And
by the way, the fact that he was not a
finalists a joke, okay, and the Hall of Fame continues
to be a joke.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
But he did it earlier this year in the game
that nobody watched the Texans.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I got an idea, Okay, bring a tier to everybody's eye.
How about Mia Hammett's family. That would bring a tier? Yeah,
I don't know, man, I just think Pete Carroll. You
know you're right, Jackson, it will never happen. He probably
would never do it. Doesn't want to step on anybody's toes,
doesn't want to be the story. I get it all that,
(30:32):
but I think people would lose their ever v Yes,
but this is the this is the time to do it, dude.
Come on, man, let's make it happen. Get Pete back
in rusted it.
Speaker 9 (30:45):
Boom.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
No, no, no, it's not a horrible idea. Is he available?
Is he officially a free agent?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, he's on a one year contract. Yeah, he's a
free agent. How about the two of them do it together.
I don't know, man, I just think that there's content
exchanges so much. Right now that Pete Carroll's done, now
that Russell Wilson's done, we can bring them back and
they belong to us again. And I think you're right, Jackson,
that people would just go bananas if Pete Carroll raised
(31:13):
the flag, all right,
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