January 9, 2026 • 37 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain talk to Kevin Harlan about the NFL Head Coach turnover, playoff matchups ahead this weekend, and the Seahawks, then they react to some Fun with Audio clips and Mike Macdonald joining the morning show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The NFL champions, the Seaattlesyhawks have won Super Bowl forty eight.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
As part of our non stop coverage of the NFL,
this is Softy's weekly visit with Kevin Harlan.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
He's a bulldozer.
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He's a beat.
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Hit the touchdown, hit the touchdown hits gubb byke curse
Now with Kevin.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Here's Softy and the shotgun formation hurts. Let's over the events.
Shotgun snap five man rush flips his hand pass.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
It's intercepted up the middle of the twenty coming in
the near side twenty five. Then the players hit the
ball's shot three hurts kick it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Up, he loses the ball.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
The ball's rowing here sideline recovered at the forty five.
As they try to uncangle the bodies, the Chargers have
gotten little oh. I think everybody touch that Paul on
that play, bouncing from one player to the next I want.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
To call what a call?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
What a guy joining us right now on a Friday night,
normally on Wednesday, by the way, courtesy of our friends
at Twin Peaks Tuck Willa, but we got him here
on a Friday before the NFL weekend begins. I was
down at Twin Peaks today talking to my friend Brad,
and all you could do is talk about how great
it is to have a nice relationship with the play
by play voice of Westwood One, the NFL, and CBS.
(01:28):
Everybody loves Kevin Harlan at Twin Peaks and he's with
us right now on the radio program.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Kevin, how are you, man?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm doing great. What a lead in there. You know, Brad,
and that we're talking about you the other day we
just said, what a kind, thoughtful, courteous chum you are
to both of us. We love your friendship and we
love being associated with this great station. In your show.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Well, first of all, we appreciate you being a little flexible.
I don't believe any of that, by the way, but
we appreciate you being a little flexible for us.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
We got a big weekend in the NFL coming up.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Seahawks had the number one seed, the bye, waiting to
see who they play next weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But let me ask you this.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Before we talk about the playoff games and the bracket man.
Lots of movement with coaches in the NFL. Pete Carroll
gone after a year in Vegas, John Harbaugh gone after
eighteen years on the job in Baltimore. Lots of openings
I think seven Now what in the NFL did any
of the firings surprise you?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
By the way, from the last couple of.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Days those two did in Vegas and in Baltimore. I
think they probably caught a lot of people by surprise.
I thought they'd give a little bit more time to Pete.
They had struck out on some of their free agent acquisitions.
Of course, the team is in desperate need of a
total redo. Maybe they felt like, at his age, this
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was not the kind of direction they wanted to go.
I don't know. I think he has such a great
influence on the culture of an organization. He's exactly what
they need, a positive for us, a guy who's won
leadership skills that are on question. I don't think what
he inherited is probably, you know, indicative of what kind
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of coach he is, and I think he was just
a victim of circumstance, quite frankly. And then the same
maybe for John Harbaugh as well. He had been there
eighteen years. That kind of surprised me, not that I
hadn't said it and known it, but when you think
about eighteen years as a head coach with one team
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in the league, like Tomlin and Belichick before them, it
was with the Patriots for what twenty twenty one years,
you just don't see that on a regular basis, But
with Harbaugh you did. There was a great relationship there
with the front off at the owner. I think a
lot of this probably is associated with Lamar and maybe
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his receptiveness to coordinators. I'm like, I don't know, I
have really no feel for why this thing happened. Word
will come out here over the next couple of days,
but there have been rumblings that Jackson was maybe a
little bit aloof, maybe a little bit Raheem Morris down
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in Atlanta. But at the same time, they've had eight
consecutive non playoff seasons and that's too much for any
ownership to really bear with that making some kind of change,
and they did so. I think I think hardball is
going to end up someplace faster than we can say
he's left. I would I'm assuming Pete Carroll still wants
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some kind of role in football. What that would be,
I don't know. I think I think he still has
many good years ahead of him. But at the same time,
maybe just feel, you know what, I'm in my mid seventies.
I've given so much of my life to the game.
Maybe there's another chapter that he wants to write, and
it's going to do something outside of football together.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah, remember before he took the Raider job, he was
actually teaching at USC, got a job down there as
like a professor, professor of what. I have no idea,
but he was involved with the kids in the classroom
at USC, and I would not be surprised Kevin if
he went back to doing that. But Kevin Harlin's with
us on the air courtesy at Twin Peaks, Tuck Willa
(05:24):
no need to do. Where will Kevin be for TV
Sunday because he's calling the Texan Steelers on radio on
Monday night after doing the Badgers and Wolverines for CBS
on the court on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
So busy weekend for you coming up.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
But you're going to be on the radio the rest
of the way for the NFL playoffs and talk to
us about our Seahawks. Man fourteen and three, number one seed,
dominated the Niners on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Had the ball for thirty eight minutes.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
In that game went down there without a couple of
missfield goals and a first in gold drive that ended
at the one yard line and did not score, they
would have thumped him twenty six to three game. So
what's the narrative you think on the Seahawk football team
as the playoffs are about to begin.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I think that the national narrative is that everything is
in lockstep with a championship run. And the greatest thing
that probably has emerged is that they have rediscovered or
finally found the run game, which was so apparent in
the win over the forty nine ers. People continually diss
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you know, the value of a running back. At the
end of the day, if you talked any coach, they'll say,
we've got to run the ball, we got to stop
the run. They begin every conversation, how are you going
to win? We got to run the ball and we
got to stop the run. And what did they do?
They took Karen McCaffrey wasn't a factory. They played the
aggressive defense we've been seeing. The defensive fields has gotten better,
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more in sync as the season has gone on. I
could probably say the same with the offensive line. And
those two running backs were just sensational. And a quarterback's
best friend is a good running game. Darnold never blinked.
His game was on par with some of his best
of the year, but that running game was the key.
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And if they can continue to run the ball just
like that, this team is going to go all the
way to Super Bowl sixty.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Yeah, which you'll be on the call for that game
for west Wood one. I just want an excuse to
come see you, by the way, so hoping the Hawks
will be there in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Last time we were there was for the What.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
If I get up there for the playoffs? What if
I get up there next weekend? What if I get
up there for the weekend after that for the championship game?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Do you know which conference title home you're calling it?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Don't, Okay, I don't, I don't, But I'm just saying
we can dream. I can dream A night with you
at one of the great eateries preferably Twin Peaks and
see Brad, that would be like number one on my list.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That would be tremendous.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Hey, if you're in town and you want to go
to Twin Peaks, time will it hit me? And let's
let's talk about the weekend coming up, because we've been
kicking this around like, hey, who do you want?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Who do you not want?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
You know, most of us will say right now, we
want to avoid the Rams if we can. But if
there's an upset this weekend, and technically Green Bay is
actually favored over Chicago, right despite being a lower seed
San Francisco beating Philadelphia, Carolina beating the Rams. Uh, I
guess Green Bay over Chicago from a seating perspective, which
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upset would surprise you the least.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think the Eagles are coming to Seattle for the
championship game. I'm just gonna put you put it right there. Yep, really, okay,
I just saw I just saw the Eagles, but I
just saw their backups this past weekend. I think I
think it's it's hard to beat a defending champion and
that's what the Eagles are. And I think they're gonna
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come out and play some magnificent football and they're gonna
have to go across country and beat the Seahawks to
get to the Super And I think that's my championship game.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Well, I'll tell you what, man, this uh this Seawk
football team against Philadelphia. I I don't know, Maybe I
just am getting cocky here, but I would I would
feel pretty good.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
About that matchup against Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I just feel like, what't you feel good about it?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
The Rams give me a little bit of you know,
stomach pains, you know whatever, So get I mean, what.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
About in the a f C.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Let's talk about the a f C, because I think
a lot of people are just waiting for Denver to fall.
They're waiting for the Patriots to fall. Uh and experienced
quarterback like an Aaron Rodgers or a Josh Allen? Uh
Is there is there really a possibility in the a
f C in your mind for maybe a six or
a seven seed to make a run through this thing?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yes? I could easily see that, if I'm not mistaken.
Wasn't Roethlisberger and the Steelers that year the FIEF played
Green Bay and Super.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
No, it was against US and set in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
They were a six seed when they be us in Detroit?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
No, who was what was what was Pittsburgh though against
Green Bay and that Super Bowl and in was it
Super Bowl forty six?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Just I just know when they beat us, they were
what they were the sixth seed in the a f C.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And I think and I think they were a low
seed and they beat Green Bay or they they got
to the Super Bowl and played Green Bay. So listen,
Pittsburgh is a division winner. So there number there where
they are and they're not the deep seed. Something tells
me with Metcalf coming back, and I know he'll be
incredibly effective after being suspended for the two games with
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Rogers know how his ability to manipulate defenses and control
a game at the line of scrimmage. They're running back
tandem of Gainwell, Uh and Warren. We're about as effective
as your running back pair up there with Walker and Sear.
I could I could easily see a stealer run here.
(11:06):
They've got a game against Houston and that's gonna be
difficult because their defense is so good. But I kind
of like Pittsburgh in that game. And then I like
the Bills. I just I just I know they're playing
Jacksonville and Perepoint talking about Jacksonville win there. I'm gonna
go with Josh Allen in that one, and uh, you know,
I don't know. I mean, the AFC is wide open,
(11:29):
the NFC is wide open, although I do favorite Seattle overall,
and I would say in the a f C, Uh,
it has a lot more unknown than known and it's
gonna take. And that's that's why I talk about Pittsburgh.
You've got a quarterback who truly is in a sweet
spot right now with where he is in his first
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year with the Steelers and all that. Know how, that's
gonna be hard to beat. I really believe I. I
think they're gonna be very hard to beat. So we'll
see what happens. Sentimentally, it'd be great to see Josh
Allen get to a super Bowl. You know he's been,
He's you know, Burrow is gone. We know Mahomes has
gone multiple times. And the other guy they talked about her,
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the other two guys that talk about jackson was not
gonna go. Uh and Josh Allen. I would like to
see Allen get a chance on the big stage.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
All right, So I've I've done something here. Kevin.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Kevin Harlan courtesy at Twin Peaks, by the way, normally
with us on Wednesday, but he's here on a Thursday night.
I've done something here I never do. I've done some
actual research for this.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Sesment that is that this is a stunner done done
un so.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
According to Google, AI, Pittsburgh was the number two seed,
green Bay was the sixth seed.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That may have been I.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Got him mixed up, did right? Okay? Then the year
I'm thinking then is against you guys? Was that with
that there were there were the seven seed? Then they
were year correct, there was the seed that that that's
where Okay, Yeah, that I was, I was wrong.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I'd like to I'd like to thank you for bringing
that game up because I thought that scar had healed,
and twenty years later, clearly it is not healed. Relying
that up, well, Kevin, there's been some talk.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Well, the point was is that the AFC is wide open. Yeah,
and I think any of the any of the seven
seeds can go. We could see a low seed, and
it's happened before and I think I think it could
easily happen again. Because there doesn't seem to be a
great deal difference in the AFC from one to seven.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Every year a team with a sub five hundred record
makes the playoffs. We have this conversation, right, Remember the
Seahawks did it in twenty ten with a beast quake run.
The Carolina Panthers with Cam Newton did it right, and
now Carolina has done it again, that they should recede
that in no world does Carolina have a right to
host a playoff game against the LA Rams that you
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want to give division titles out, fine, but if you're
under five hundred, you're on the road. That they should
reseed this by record come playoff time. Do you agree
with that?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well, does it minimize the importance of winning your division?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And that does it minimize, you know, having to gear
up and play the same team in your division twice
and three of them, and play three different teams twice
And and I and I think the cry has always
been from these coaches, you know, win your division and
then we'll see where we are. And some divisions are
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ridiculously good, like the NFC West, the division you're in,
And then some are appear to be traditionally weak, like
the NFC South, but they play those teams and they
play each other all those times you you you play
half of your schedule basically against teams in your division,
and and I think there has to be some value
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to that. Otherwise you're just throwing those those sixteen teams
from each conference and and you're you're shaking them up
and divisions don't matter. But uh, and of course we
see interconference play, we see all different kind of formations
with the schedule. But the one thing that kind of
keeps things going and hope alive is going back to
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what Seattle did in that game where they held a
division championship and they beat New Orleans, and New Orleans
was a heavily favored team, if I'm not mistaked. I
don't know what the Saints were favored for in that game,
but I think it was significant in playoff terms. So
I don't know. I think they'll continue to look at
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at the Competition Committee, I think visits this question every
single year, and and they're very smart minds that that
know all the different ramifications, equations and recipes that are
involved with you know, having divisions, not having divisions. But
there there is a value there, and I think we
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can probably find some historical value that would point to
keeping it the way it is, and and yeah, you're
gonna have a down year and you're gonna have incredible years,
like your three teams from your division all making the playoffs. Yeah,
and the South was weak, yet they're gonna get a
chance because they won their division and played all those
teams twice. That that earned something. So I yeah, no,
(16:19):
I there there arguments both ways. I don't know if
I give you which way I lean, but but I
would I would agree either way. Yeah, sure, let's let's
reced and put the Rams should be hosting a game.
There's there's no doubt about it. But then you look
in your division, uh, the NFC West for instance, and
you see all these teams with double digit wins. You know,
I don't know. I think right now the league has
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got a pretty good setup, and I don't I don't
foresee it changing, right.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, Hawks were ten and a half point dogs in
that game, by the way, against the Saints.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I have that number burned into my brain. And this
is what happened?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And how how good was New Orleans? There were division
champ right, and and a double did a winning team
and Drew Brees is the quarterback, right.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Right, correct, coming off coming off the title the year.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Before, Thank you, thank you so so? How how great
was that win? And we're talking about it all these
years later, about the run, about the win, and about
what that meant for your franchise. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Beastquake doesn't resonate nearly as much if it happened on
the road. One of the reasons why that's a memorable, great,
legendary run is because of what it did to that stadium.
You know, the earthquake that was caused by it, all
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Man.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
But Kevin, before you go, Kevin Harlan's with us, I
want to just get your thoughts on Sam Darnold. You
mentioned the Hawks. You think the Hawks will play the
Eagles in the NFC Championship.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I would take that. I would take that and run
right now.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
But there still are a lot of people in Seattle
and across the country that are waiting for Sam Darnold
to fall flat on his face.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Do they have reason to expect that that might happen?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't. I don't think so. I think his moment
of uh of pause was during that little stretch when
they when they staggered there for a couple of weeks,
the turnovers were piling up and and the team had
a little bit of a hiccup, and they survived the
speed bump. They moved on. They finished strong and and
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Darnold has looked like what we have seen the majority
of the time these last two seasons. I mean, look
at all the wins he's piled up in these last
two years. Two different teams, two different kind of styles,
yet the quarterback has been the same. No one's perfect,
and no one expected the season for the Hawks to
be perfect, but they weathered what was a bit of
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a pause in the success of their season individually and
team wise, and they came out I think stronger because
of it. Now. I think a lot of that has
to do with the head coach. I think he is
brilliant in so many ways and what he's done and
his command over that team. But a lot of it, too,
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was on the shoulders of Darnald. How he did not
get stuck in any kind of narrative about well in
the wild card game last year, and the way he
finished with Minnesota and Detroit and that horrific loss against
the Lions last year, and if he was ever going
to have a moment where he had to face those
demons again. He did it in the regular season, and
he conquered it. I think they've got incredible momentum headed toward,
(19:23):
headed toward this bye week and then find out who
they're going to play the next week. I'm not a
big fan of the buy. I get it for the rest.
I think these guys are routine guys, and I think
there's a big benefit in that. But at the same time,
at this time of the year, you need to rest,
You need to kind of reassess where you are, appreciate
what you've accomplished, and certainly sharpen your tools for what's ahead.
(19:47):
I think they're gonna check all those boxes and do
everything in that regard. I think they'll come out ready
to play very very well. So I don't see any
slippage with Darnald from this point on. And I think
if there was ever going to be anything, maybe the
eyebrows were raised a little bit when he was struggling
there whatever part of the season that was last third
of the year, there was that what two three four games,
(20:08):
right Dave at the two two.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Really yeah Cardinals rams. He had seven turnovers in two.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Games, Thank you, But he came out I think stronger.
So that personal opinion, I think he came out stronger.
I think whatever would have been haunting him from what
happened maybe at the end of last year was vanquished
by the way he finished this year and what we're
going to see in the upcoming postseason.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Kevin, you're the man.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I don't say this very often, but I love you
and I can't wait to see you, hopefully in person
here in Seattle for a game and maybe the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Pal So, oh my god, love it. We'll do it
again next week. All right, man, good stuff, enjoy Monday night.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You're a good man. Regardless of what anybody says about you,
You're a good man.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I love it. Good stuff from Kevin.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
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little fun with audio slash. Hey did you hear that? Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That's a date? What's that?
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Dick?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Yesterday was the fifteen year anniversary of the Beast Quake
run against the Saints. Let's revisit two calls Dick from
that game. First, the NBC TV call with Tom Hammond
and Mike Mayock.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Crowd silent now as opposed to when the Saints have
the ball hold, Look at this run, get a run
Marshaon Lynz stars, feed past blockers.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Now he's dancing his way to the touchdown.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
That's as good as the effort as I've ever seen
in my life from a running back. Downhill, physical and
down the field.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You're gonna see.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Matt hassel back in the whole offensive line. He creates
the tackle of Shanley, runs through Sharper, runs through Adell,
run school Jafari fer Get off me, he says to
Tracy Porter.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Wow, tell you what, man, it still gives you a uh.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
The hair on your forearm still stands up after all
these years not hearing that call.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
We needed was the first down too. I was at
the game, and all we needed was the first down.
I was like, I was celebrating because he got the
first down, and I was like, wait a second, he's
not down yet. He's still not down.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Unbelievable. Well, how about this if you've never heard this one?
More on the beast quake call. That's the call everybody
knows from Tom Hammond and Mike Mayock. How about the
same Spanish radio broadcast featuring Emilio Peralta and Marco Garcia
on w f N O eight point thirty in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah, and the pusher says capos. Wow, he's that, Cupo
says Cupo, and the keep on this yell? And Pogo
who's the.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Oh the beef march Seawan and Spanish is march Alina
March right? I mean, did he sound a little bit
too fired up for the Saints Spanish radio broadcast?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
That's the Saints guy, right.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
I've also heard, you know, Spanish soccer announcers go wild
for goals for either team. So you're saying they're not
as uh impartial as other broadcasters are partial. They're not
as partial. Okay, well, I'll tell you what, man, that's
never gonna get old, dude, never gonna get freaking old.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Man.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
That was fifteen years ago yesterday. All right, Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that out?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
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Speaker 3 (25:21):
Let's make that one longer. Next time out the center.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Jano now will clear it in eight forty left in
this third period. The powers that be that control these
things have never read something and watched a hockey game.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
At the same time. That's how I got to say
it's almost good night, folks.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
I'll tell you what you think Eliwiki is like all, hey, John,
they spend about eighty five million dollars with a Kraken,
Give me a favor and just read the damn thing.
You know what, though, I tell you what, man, I
always wonder how clients react.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
To things like that. That's great promotion for them.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
We're not playing that read again unless foreselin busting their
balls on the air.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I mean, if you're.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Willing to have a little bit of fun, right and
not be sensitive about stuff, a little bit of extra
promotion like that never hurt anybody.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
No, No, I mean I've I've had numerous conversations with
the people that write my spots for the Storm game saying, oh.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Dud, this is this is too long. How can we
truncate this? Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
I'm more of a Delta guy myself, but I get it, man,
I get it all right.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Hi, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
All right? COMO for us, Chris.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Daniels, our buddy, sat down with the new Seattle mayor,
Katie Wilson for an interview this week and had this
back and forth about the possible return of the NBA
and the SuperSonics.
Speaker 10 (26:38):
I'm going to end with a question that I've asked
six other mayors, Wow, Greg Nichols, Mike McGinn, Ed Murray,
Tim Burgess, Bruce Harold, Jenny Durkin, Because the city does
have a financial interest in Seattle Center and what happens
at Seattle Center, and there has been a story spanning
all of these mayors about the Sonics leaving Seattle and
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whether they'll ever come back. So you're the seventh mayor,
I'm asking now about this, what are you going to
do to bring.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
The Sonics back?
Speaker 11 (27:15):
I think we have a really good shot, that's all
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
There.
Speaker 11 (27:23):
It actually wasn't, but yeah, I don't regret it.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
I don't think she has any idea what the hell
she's talking about, but that's just me.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
It's possible.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I also think this that she's going to play no
role in the return.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
At the arena is done.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
I mean, the reason why this was a question for
previous mayors was because of the arena.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
She may reap the benefits of it. That term, she
might be.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
A saying, hey, you know I was the mayor when
the Sonics came back.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Well I would do that, I her. You know why,
because people are stupid and they'll buy that. I was
on the watch when the Sonics came back, and there's
people out there that will buy that and might even
vote for her because of it. But you know, look,
I mean I don't think she really has any idea
about any of this. Stuff, just my personal opinion. But
I also don't think that the mayor's office at this
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point will play any.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Role whatsoever in the NBA returning. All right, Hey, Dick
and yea, happen to hear what's that? All right? Five six,
seven eight, you picked Jackson five five.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Yesterday on ESPN, college football reporter Pete Thamil talked about
how the Demon Williams situation is a turning point for
the sports and the future of paying athletes.
Speaker 12 (28:31):
People really think this is a flashpoint for the future
of college athletics. It quite frankly, Brian has been an
embarrassment to the sport that they can't get valid contracts done.
And look, I had one head coach called me today
and he said, I don't even know who to call
when somebody's tampering. I don't even know who's in charge. Basically,
and in this moment in time, here is a symptom
of bigger problems all around the sport of college athletics.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
People.
Speaker 12 (28:54):
The NCAA technically is in charge of tampering. The CSC,
newly formed, is in charge of a flory of things,
but none of them are tampering in this case. Tampering
is so prevalent Brian that there's really no way to
enforce it. It's become a way of life, and recent legal
rulings have even made it hard for the NCAA. Informed
tampering Tennessee took the Ncate of court within the last
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few months. In the ruling and injunction there made it
hard for the Ncate enforce its own rules. So this
is a complicated time. There's nobody really in charge and
everyone is looking at Demand Williams's situation for answers for
the future of how college football works.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
Now.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
When we talked about this the other day that just
like Phil Luckett, I thought the helmet was a football
was influential and instant replay. Well, this the demand incident
be influential in changing college football.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
You know.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Aaron Fentriss, by the way, works for the Oregonian. He
sent me a tweet today. Maybe he's just being a
smart ass because he has a smart ass. By the way,
that nobody outside of Seattle cares about Demon Williams, which
is ridiculous. Wow, you got that guy right there on
ESPN Serious Radio had me on the ear today talking
about it. Everybody around the country's talking about Demon Williams,
and everybody understands how this might influence the future of
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college athletics. So when doults like that say things like that,
it's just ignoramus to the fullest.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (30:11):
This might be honestly, I mean Dick winning the National
Championship in ninety one, playing for the championship, the Boys
in the Boat, and the Olympics back in the day.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
This could be the most.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Influential moment in Washington sports history as far as the
impact on the rest of the country.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
What just happened yesterday and your president becoming the NCAA president,
that would.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Be one as well.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
But I think as horrible as the timing was when
he made his first announcement announcement during the memorial service,
the timing couldn't have been better for Washington to have
it come down an hour before the nasal, half hour
before the National Championship semi final, and it be broken
on ESPN while everybody's watching the pregame.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Well, everybody knows who he is now and if it's
a popularity contest, and we'll see what that popularity does.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Come I'm come August and the polls.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
We're gonna break Mike McDonald, Seahawk head coach, joined Chuck
and Buck and Ashley this morning. We're gonna listen in
a little bit next on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 13 (31:11):
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Speaker 3 (31:26):
Dear Hill Junior is the running back.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
The quick passage of second that's gonna be running.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Touchdown, Jo Ponds.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
There you go, Sean McDonough ESPN, D'Angelo Ponds where they
picked six on the first play of the game for
Dante Moore.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Indiana leads Oregon twenty one to seven. By the way,
eight minutes to go in the second quarter and Dante
Moore so far directly responsible for two Indiana touchdowns. You
gotta fumble that Indiana recovered inside the Oregon five yard line.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
They scored three plays later.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Ducks have the ball second and ten from their own
twenty five, but Indiana leading twenty one to seven in
the National semi final. As we speak, all right, Mike
McDonald dick Seahawks head coach with the morning show Chuck
and Buck and Ashley earlier this morning.
Speaker 14 (32:16):
How much did you allow yourself your team to celebrate
a little bit the accomplishment of the regular season before
diving into, obviously the meat and potatoes of a playoff run.
Speaker 11 (32:26):
Yeah, well, it's, uh, you definitely want to You definitely
want to enjoy and celebrate the wins.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Right we talk.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
If we talked stacking wins and you never celebrate anything,
that'd be kind of a miserable existence. So you know,
you know, we're having the game on Saturday. It was
great because it let us have Sunday to kind of
recalibrate and put a plan together for the week two. So, uh,
you know, we had Sunday off, and then we came
in Monday and really started kind of executing our bie
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week plan and off we went. So but it's it's
been great.
Speaker 14 (32:58):
Clint Kubiak obviously supporting him and his pursuits to possibly
become a head coach himself versus his responsibilities to this team.
How are you handling that? How are you making sure
he handles his business as your offensive coordinator.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
Well, one thing I really respect about Clint was as
this process started, the team is really, you know, the
absolute priority in his mind, and he made that very
clear in his actions back that up too, And so
I really feel like it's more my responsibility to give
him the kind of hey, like the great of the team, like, look,
we trust you handling your responsibilities.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
This week.
Speaker 11 (33:36):
You know, we're gonna have two days off as coaches
here on Friday and Saturday, and you can take advantage
of that time to interview with the teams that are
interested in with you, and then we'll go from there.
So he's been he's been a great partner, and obviously
he's done great things for our team and our offense,
and we expect that going forward and wishing the best
in the process. But you know, when it's a Seahawk time,
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he's been, he's been right on it, and and I
know he's looking forward to really just kind of get
him back into a kind of a one track mind
here once these interviews are done.
Speaker 14 (34:06):
Uh Sunday, Mike McDonald with us here on Chuck and
Buck in the Morning, Sports Radio ninety three point three.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
K j R f M.
Speaker 14 (34:13):
So let's talk about your quarterback. The entire nation, even
some people here locally seem really worried about his number
of turnovers. Why is Mike McDonald not worried about that
at all?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (34:25):
I think I think we're worried about what Sam does.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
All the inputs.
Speaker 11 (34:30):
You know, it's because it's it's it's easy to tell.
Like I've said this before, but when you start coaching outcomes,
that's that to me, that's like confusing as a player.
You know, like, uh, I don't know make like you
gotta make that tackle or you gotta like why don't
you get a sack on that play? Like, well, you
know why, why wouldn't you work? Why wouldn't you be
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coaching me on where I went aligned and how I
got off the football and like the how I like
how I attack like the the contact zone in the rush,
or how I finished the play. Well, the same thing
with the quarterback. You know, it's what was your mentality
going to the play. Okay, let's coach your footwork up?
Where did your eyes start? How'd you see the read?
You know where you just cite it in that moment?
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The way we want you to play. You know, I
think those are the things that are clear to a
player on how you want them to play. And if
you start coaching outcomes now you now, I think you're
going to start getting players on your team that aren't
playing the way you want and uh, you don't get
the style of play that we've been able to create.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
And so.
Speaker 11 (35:31):
You know, it's the most important position, and and and
Sam is a great player. But the way we coach
our guys is going to remain the same and and
that and that's and that's just how we're going to
roll here, you know. Is I just I believe that
that's definitely the way to do it.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Do you think he works out with the players, By
the way, McDonald, he's got some guns now, he does the.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Gym, little bench press.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
I don't think he die with the guy in there
and work out with the guy.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Honestly.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
I think he gets there at probably five fifteen.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
In the morning and does it for an hour and
a half.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
At that time, you think people would pay of like
a live stream of Mike McDonald working out at the vMac.
He shows up five o'clock, drops his bag off in
his office, heads down to the gym and just just
a live webcam just watching Mike McDonald work out.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 9 (36:18):
Man.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
We had Milan on earlier today and he doesn't like
to give predictions, but I guilted him into giving a prediction.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
He thinks the Hawks are playing the Rams on this weekend.
I would bet that as well. I mean, I think
I thinks the Bears win, the Eagles win, the Rams win, right.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
Yes, I feel most confident that the Rams will win.
I feel the second most confident that the Eagles will win.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I do think that.
Speaker 8 (36:40):
I do think that the Packers have a puncher's chance.
But I don't know why it is flipped from Bears
favored to Packers favorite.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
It's just it's hard to imagine, based on what we've
been programmed into our brain, that Ben Johnson beats Matt
Lafleur and Caleb Williams beats Jordan Love Right, that's hard
to imagine something like that happening.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
But the Packers are favored in this game.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
I think a lot of people just wait till the
Bears fall flat on their face, and that Caleb Williams
might not be ready for a moment like this. I
mean Harlan likes the Eagles to play the Seahawks and
the NFC championship. We do know this, guys, because of
the parody in the NFL, there's going to be some
crazy upset in this wild CARDA is Well, I'm just saying,
where's it act?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Right?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Is it Carolina beating the ram.
Speaker 8 (37:24):
That's the only crazy as that that there even could be.
I don't think any other I don't think any other
outcome can be seen as a crazy upsetde.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Well, from the spread perspective of the other game would
be the Niners getting six against Philadelphia, but I don't
think that's a crazy The next one is the Chargers
getting three and a half. So the two biggest upsets
would be the Carolina Panthers and the Niners winning. We're
gonna break Jedfish. You're not gonna want to miss this.
What the heck was the last two days?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Like?
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Why should Husky fans be on board with Demon Williams
coming back to play quarterback at udub Jedfish joins next
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Shotgun snap five man rush flips his hand pass.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
It's intercepted up the middle of the twenty coming in
the near side twenty five. Then the players hit the
ball's shot three hurts kick it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Up, he loses the ball.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
The ball's rowing here sideline recovered at the forty five.
As they try to uncangle the bodies, the Chargers have
gotten little oh. I think everybody touch that Paul on
that play, bouncing from one player to the next I want.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
To call what a call?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
What a guy joining us right now on a Friday night,
normally on Wednesday, by the way, courtesy of our friends
at Twin Peaks Tuck Willa, but we got him here
on a Friday before the NFL weekend begins. I was
down at Twin Peaks today talking to my friend Brad,
and all you could do is talk about how great
it is to have a nice relationship with the play
by play voice of Westwood One, the NFL, and CBS.
(01:28):
Everybody loves Kevin Harlan at Twin Peaks and he's with
us right now on the radio program.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Kevin, how are you, man?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm doing great. What a lead in there. You know, Brad,
and that we're talking about you the other day we
just said, what a kind, thoughtful, courteous chum you are
to both of us. We love your friendship and we
love being associated with this great station. In your show.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Well, first of all, we appreciate you being a little flexible.
I don't believe any of that, by the way, but
we appreciate you being a little flexible for us.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
We got a big weekend in the NFL coming up.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Seahawks had the number one seed, the bye, waiting to
see who they play next weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
But let me ask you this.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Before we talk about the playoff games and the bracket man.
Lots of movement with coaches in the NFL. Pete Carroll
gone after a year in Vegas, John Harbaugh gone after
eighteen years on the job in Baltimore. Lots of openings
I think seven Now what in the NFL did any
of the firings surprise you?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
By the way, from the last couple of.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Days those two did in Vegas and in Baltimore. I
think they probably caught a lot of people by surprise.
I thought they'd give a little bit more time to Pete.
They had struck out on some of their free agent acquisitions.
Of course, the team is in desperate need of a
total redo. Maybe they felt like, at his age, this
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was not the kind of direction they wanted to go.
I don't know. I think he has such a great
influence on the culture of an organization. He's exactly what
they need, a positive for us, a guy who's won
leadership skills that are on question. I don't think what
he inherited is probably, you know, indicative of what kind
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of coach he is, and I think he was just
a victim of circumstance, quite frankly. And then the same
maybe for John Harbaugh as well. He had been there
eighteen years. That kind of surprised me, not that I
hadn't said it and known it, but when you think
about eighteen years as a head coach with one team
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in the league, like Tomlin and Belichick before them, it
was with the Patriots for what twenty twenty one years,
you just don't see that on a regular basis, But
with Harbaugh you did. There was a great relationship there
with the front off at the owner. I think a
lot of this probably is associated with Lamar and maybe
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his receptiveness to coordinators. I'm like, I don't know, I
have really no feel for why this thing happened. Word
will come out here over the next couple of days,
but there have been rumblings that Jackson was maybe a
little bit aloof, maybe a little bit Raheem Morris down
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in Atlanta. But at the same time, they've had eight
consecutive non playoff seasons and that's too much for any
ownership to really bear with that making some kind of change,
and they did so. I think I think hardball is
going to end up someplace faster than we can say
he's left. I would I'm assuming Pete Carroll still wants
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some kind of role in football. What that would be,
I don't know. I think I think he still has
many good years ahead of him. But at the same time,
maybe just feel, you know what, I'm in my mid seventies.
I've given so much of my life to the game.
Maybe there's another chapter that he wants to write, and
it's going to do something outside of football together.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah, remember before he took the Raider job, he was
actually teaching at USC, got a job down there as
like a professor, professor of what. I have no idea,
but he was involved with the kids in the classroom
at USC, and I would not be surprised Kevin if
he went back to doing that. But Kevin Harlin's with
us on the air courtesy at Twin Peaks, Tuck Willa
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no need to do. Where will Kevin be for TV
Sunday because he's calling the Texan Steelers on radio on
Monday night after doing the Badgers and Wolverines for CBS
on the court on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
So busy weekend for you coming up.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
But you're going to be on the radio the rest
of the way for the NFL playoffs and talk to
us about our Seahawks. Man fourteen and three, number one seed,
dominated the Niners on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Had the ball for thirty eight minutes.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
In that game went down there without a couple of
missfield goals and a first in gold drive that ended
at the one yard line and did not score, they
would have thumped him twenty six to three game. So
what's the narrative you think on the Seahawk football team
as the playoffs are about to begin.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I think that the national narrative is that everything is
in lockstep with a championship run. And the greatest thing
that probably has emerged is that they have rediscovered or
finally found the run game, which was so apparent in
the win over the forty nine ers. People continually diss
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you know, the value of a running back. At the
end of the day, if you talked any coach, they'll say,
we've got to run the ball, we got to stop
the run. They begin every conversation, how are you going
to win? We got to run the ball and we
got to stop the run. And what did they do?
They took Karen McCaffrey wasn't a factory. They played the
aggressive defense we've been seeing. The defensive fields has gotten better,
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more in sync as the season has gone on. I
could probably say the same with the offensive line. And
those two running backs were just sensational. And a quarterback's
best friend is a good running game. Darnold never blinked.
His game was on par with some of his best
of the year, but that running game was the key.
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And if they can continue to run the ball just
like that, this team is going to go all the
way to Super Bowl sixty.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Yeah, which you'll be on the call for that game
for west Wood one. I just want an excuse to
come see you, by the way, so hoping the Hawks
will be there in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Last time we were there was for the What.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
If I get up there for the playoffs? What if
I get up there next weekend? What if I get
up there for the weekend after that for the championship game?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Do you know which conference title home you're calling it?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Don't, Okay, I don't, I don't, But I'm just saying
we can dream. I can dream A night with you
at one of the great eateries preferably Twin Peaks and
see Brad, that would be like number one on my list.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That would be tremendous.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Hey, if you're in town and you want to go
to Twin Peaks, time will it hit me? And let's
let's talk about the weekend coming up, because we've been
kicking this around like, hey, who do you want?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Who do you not want?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
You know, most of us will say right now, we
want to avoid the Rams if we can. But if
there's an upset this weekend, and technically Green Bay is
actually favored over Chicago, right despite being a lower seed
San Francisco beating Philadelphia, Carolina beating the Rams. Uh, I
guess Green Bay over Chicago from a seating perspective, which
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upset would surprise you the least.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I think the Eagles are coming to Seattle for the
championship game. I'm just gonna put you put it right there. Yep, really, okay,
I just saw I just saw the Eagles, but I
just saw their backups this past weekend. I think I
think it's it's hard to beat a defending champion and
that's what the Eagles are. And I think they're gonna
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come out and play some magnificent football and they're gonna
have to go across country and beat the Seahawks to
get to the Super And I think that's my championship game.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Well, I'll tell you what, man, this uh this Seawk
football team against Philadelphia. I I don't know, Maybe I
just am getting cocky here, but I would I would
feel pretty good.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
About that matchup against Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I just feel like, what't you feel good about it?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
The Rams give me a little bit of you know,
stomach pains, you know whatever, So get I mean, what.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
About in the a f C.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Let's talk about the a f C, because I think
a lot of people are just waiting for Denver to fall.
They're waiting for the Patriots to fall. Uh and experienced
quarterback like an Aaron Rodgers or a Josh Allen? Uh
Is there is there really a possibility in the a
f C in your mind for maybe a six or
a seven seed to make a run through this thing?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yes? I could easily see that, if I'm not mistaken.
Wasn't Roethlisberger and the Steelers that year the FIEF played
Green Bay and Super.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
No, it was against US and set in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
They were a six seed when they be us in Detroit?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
No, who was what was what was Pittsburgh though against
Green Bay and that Super Bowl and in was it
Super Bowl forty six?
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Just I just know when they beat us, they were
what they were the sixth seed in the a f C.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And I think and I think they were a low
seed and they beat Green Bay or they they got
to the Super Bowl and played Green Bay. So listen,
Pittsburgh is a division winner. So there number there where
they are and they're not the deep seed. Something tells
me with Metcalf coming back, and I know he'll be
incredibly effective after being suspended for the two games with
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Rogers know how his ability to manipulate defenses and control
a game at the line of scrimmage. They're running back
tandem of Gainwell, Uh and Warren. We're about as effective
as your running back pair up there with Walker and Sear.
I could I could easily see a stealer run here.
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They've got a game against Houston and that's gonna be
difficult because their defense is so good. But I kind
of like Pittsburgh in that game. And then I like
the Bills. I just I just I know they're playing
Jacksonville and Perepoint talking about Jacksonville win there. I'm gonna
go with Josh Allen in that one, and uh, you know,
I don't know. I mean, the AFC is wide open,
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the NFC is wide open, although I do favorite Seattle overall,
and I would say in the a f C, Uh,
it has a lot more unknown than known and it's
gonna take. And that's that's why I talk about Pittsburgh.
You've got a quarterback who truly is in a sweet
spot right now with where he is in his first
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year with the Steelers and all that. Know how, that's
gonna be hard to beat. I really believe I. I
think they're gonna be very hard to beat. So we'll
see what happens. Sentimentally, it'd be great to see Josh
Allen get to a super Bowl. You know he's been,
He's you know, Burrow is gone. We know Mahomes has
gone multiple times. And the other guy they talked about her,
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the other two guys that talk about jackson was not
gonna go. Uh and Josh Allen. I would like to
see Allen get a chance on the big stage.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
All right, So I've I've done something here. Kevin.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Kevin Harlan courtesy at Twin Peaks, by the way, normally
with us on Wednesday, but he's here on a Thursday night.
I've done something here I never do. I've done some
actual research for this.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Sesment that is that this is a stunner done done
un so.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
According to Google, AI, Pittsburgh was the number two seed,
green Bay was the sixth seed.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That may have been I.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Got him mixed up, did right? Okay? Then the year
I'm thinking then is against you guys? Was that with
that there were there were the seven seed? Then they
were year correct, there was the seed that that that's
where Okay, Yeah, that I was, I was wrong.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I'd like to I'd like to thank you for bringing
that game up because I thought that scar had healed,
and twenty years later, clearly it is not healed. Relying
that up, well, Kevin, there's been some talk.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Well, the point was is that the AFC is wide open. Yeah,
and I think any of the any of the seven
seeds can go. We could see a low seed, and
it's happened before and I think I think it could
easily happen again. Because there doesn't seem to be a
great deal difference in the AFC from one to seven.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Every year a team with a sub five hundred record
makes the playoffs. We have this conversation, right, Remember the
Seahawks did it in twenty ten with a beast quake run.
The Carolina Panthers with Cam Newton did it right, and
now Carolina has done it again, that they should recede
that in no world does Carolina have a right to
host a playoff game against the LA Rams that you
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want to give division titles out, fine, but if you're
under five hundred, you're on the road. That they should
reseed this by record come playoff time. Do you agree
with that?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well, does it minimize the importance of winning your division?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And that does it minimize, you know, having to gear
up and play the same team in your division twice
and three of them, and play three different teams twice
And and I and I think the cry has always
been from these coaches, you know, win your division and
then we'll see where we are. And some divisions are
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ridiculously good, like the NFC West, the division you're in,
And then some are appear to be traditionally weak, like
the NFC South, but they play those teams and they
play each other all those times you you you play
half of your schedule basically against teams in your division,
and and I think there has to be some value
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to that. Otherwise you're just throwing those those sixteen teams
from each conference and and you're you're shaking them up
and divisions don't matter. But uh, and of course we
see interconference play, we see all different kind of formations
with the schedule. But the one thing that kind of
keeps things going and hope alive is going back to
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what Seattle did in that game where they held a
division championship and they beat New Orleans, and New Orleans
was a heavily favored team, if I'm not mistaked. I
don't know what the Saints were favored for in that game,
but I think it was significant in playoff terms. So
I don't know. I think they'll continue to look at
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at the Competition Committee, I think visits this question every
single year, and and they're very smart minds that that
know all the different ramifications, equations and recipes that are
involved with you know, having divisions, not having divisions. But
there there is a value there, and I think we
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can probably find some historical value that would point to
keeping it the way it is, and and yeah, you're
gonna have a down year and you're gonna have incredible years,
like your three teams from your division all making the playoffs. Yeah,
and the South was weak, yet they're gonna get a
chance because they won their division and played all those
teams twice. That that earned something. So I yeah, no,
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I there there arguments both ways. I don't know if
I give you which way I lean, but but I
would I would agree either way. Yeah, sure, let's let's
reced and put the Rams should be hosting a game.
There's there's no doubt about it. But then you look
in your division, uh, the NFC West for instance, and
you see all these teams with double digit wins. You know,
I don't know. I think right now the league has
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got a pretty good setup, and I don't I don't
foresee it changing, right.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, Hawks were ten and a half point dogs in
that game, by the way, against the Saints.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I have that number burned into my brain. And this
is what happened?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And how how good was New Orleans? There were division
champ right, and and a double did a winning team
and Drew Brees is the quarterback, right.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Right, correct, coming off coming off the title the year.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Before, Thank you, thank you so so? How how great
was that win? And we're talking about it all these
years later, about the run, about the win, and about
what that meant for your franchise. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Beastquake doesn't resonate nearly as much if it happened on
the road. One of the reasons why that's a memorable, great,
legendary run is because of what it did to that stadium.
You know, the earthquake that was caused by it, all
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Man.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
But Kevin, before you go, Kevin Harlan's with us, I
want to just get your thoughts on Sam Darnold. You
mentioned the Hawks. You think the Hawks will play the
Eagles in the NFC Championship.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I would take that. I would take that and run
right now.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
But there still are a lot of people in Seattle
and across the country that are waiting for Sam Darnold
to fall flat on his face.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Do they have reason to expect that that might happen?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't. I don't think so. I think his moment
of uh of pause was during that little stretch when
they when they staggered there for a couple of weeks,
the turnovers were piling up and and the team had
a little bit of a hiccup, and they survived the
speed bump. They moved on. They finished strong and and
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Darnold has looked like what we have seen the majority
of the time these last two seasons. I mean, look
at all the wins he's piled up in these last
two years. Two different teams, two different kind of styles,
yet the quarterback has been the same. No one's perfect,
and no one expected the season for the Hawks to
be perfect, but they weathered what was a bit of
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a pause in the success of their season individually and
team wise, and they came out I think stronger because
of it. Now. I think a lot of that has
to do with the head coach. I think he is
brilliant in so many ways and what he's done and
his command over that team. But a lot of it, too,
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was on the shoulders of Darnald. How he did not
get stuck in any kind of narrative about well in
the wild card game last year, and the way he
finished with Minnesota and Detroit and that horrific loss against
the Lions last year, and if he was ever going
to have a moment where he had to face those
demons again. He did it in the regular season, and
he conquered it. I think they've got incredible momentum headed toward,
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headed toward this bye week and then find out who
they're going to play the next week. I'm not a
big fan of the buy. I get it for the rest.
I think these guys are routine guys, and I think
there's a big benefit in that. But at the same time,
at this time of the year, you need to rest,
You need to kind of reassess where you are, appreciate
what you've accomplished, and certainly sharpen your tools for what's ahead.
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I think they're gonna check all those boxes and do
everything in that regard. I think they'll come out ready
to play very very well. So I don't see any
slippage with Darnald from this point on. And I think
if there was ever going to be anything, maybe the
eyebrows were raised a little bit when he was struggling
there whatever part of the season that was last third
of the year, there was that what two three four games,
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right Dave at the two two.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Really yeah Cardinals rams. He had seven turnovers in two.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Games, Thank you, But he came out I think stronger.
So that personal opinion, I think he came out stronger.
I think whatever would have been haunting him from what
happened maybe at the end of last year was vanquished
by the way he finished this year and what we're
going to see in the upcoming postseason.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Kevin, you're the man.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I don't say this very often, but I love you
and I can't wait to see you, hopefully in person
here in Seattle for a game and maybe the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Pal So, oh my god, love it. We'll do it
again next week. All right, man, good stuff, enjoy Monday night.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You're a good man. Regardless of what anybody says about you,
You're a good man.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I love it. Good stuff from Kevin.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Harlan will get a break if you missed Jed Fish
today with us, don't make that same mistakes. Six pm tonight,
what exactly went down with Demon Williams. You'll hear from
the coach at six Right here on Softia and Diko
Jackson ninety three three KJRFL.
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Fourteen to seven Indiana, early second quarter in that game,
who's yours? Getting a pick six off Dante More on
the first play of the game and they lead fourteen
to seven. Now getting the ball back for their own
eighteen yard line, we're gonna go up twenty one to
seven on the Ducks. All right, here we go a
little fun with audio slash. Hey did you hear that? Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That's a date? What's that?
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Dick?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Yesterday was the fifteen year anniversary of the Beast Quake
run against the Saints. Let's revisit two calls Dick from
that game. First, the NBC TV call with Tom Hammond
and Mike Mayock.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Crowd silent now as opposed to when the Saints have
the ball hold, Look at this run, get a run
Marshaon Lynz stars, feed past blockers.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Now he's dancing his way to the touchdown.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
That's as good as the effort as I've ever seen
in my life from a running back. Downhill, physical and
down the field.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You're gonna see.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Matt hassel back in the whole offensive line. He creates
the tackle of Shanley, runs through Sharper, runs through Adell,
run school Jafari fer Get off me, he says to
Tracy Porter.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Wow, tell you what, man, it still gives you a uh.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
The hair on your forearm still stands up after all
these years not hearing that call.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
We needed was the first down too. I was at
the game, and all we needed was the first down.
I was like, I was celebrating because he got the
first down, and I was like, wait a second, he's
not down yet. He's still not down.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Unbelievable. Well, how about this if you've never heard this one?
More on the beast quake call. That's the call everybody
knows from Tom Hammond and Mike Mayock. How about the
same Spanish radio broadcast featuring Emilio Peralta and Marco Garcia
on w f N O eight point thirty in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah, and the pusher says capos. Wow, he's that, Cupo
says Cupo, and the keep on this yell? And Pogo
who's the.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Oh the beef march Seawan and Spanish is march Alina
March right? I mean, did he sound a little bit
too fired up for the Saints Spanish radio broadcast?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
That's the Saints guy, right.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
I've also heard, you know, Spanish soccer announcers go wild
for goals for either team. So you're saying they're not
as uh impartial as other broadcasters are partial. They're not
as partial. Okay, well, I'll tell you what, man, that's
never gonna get old, dude, never gonna get freaking old.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Man.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
That was fifteen years ago yesterday. All right, Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that out?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
During Tuesday's crack and win over the Bruins On the
TV side, Johnny Foresland was not very happy with the
length of an Alaska Airlines ad read and by.
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Speaker 3 (25:21):
Let's make that one longer. Next time out the center.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Jano now will clear it in eight forty left in
this third period. The powers that be that control these
things have never read something and watched a hockey game.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
At the same time. That's how I got to say
it's almost good night, folks.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
I'll tell you what you think Eliwiki is like all, hey, John,
they spend about eighty five million dollars with a Kraken,
Give me a favor and just read the damn thing.
You know what, though, I tell you what, man, I
always wonder how clients react.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
To things like that. That's great promotion for them.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
We're not playing that read again unless foreselin busting their
balls on the air.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I mean, if you're.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Willing to have a little bit of fun, right and
not be sensitive about stuff, a little bit of extra
promotion like that never hurt anybody.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
No, No, I mean I've I've had numerous conversations with
the people that write my spots for the Storm game saying, oh.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Dud, this is this is too long. How can we
truncate this? Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
I'm more of a Delta guy myself, but I get it, man,
I get it all right.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Hi, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
All right? COMO for us, Chris.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Daniels, our buddy, sat down with the new Seattle mayor,
Katie Wilson for an interview this week and had this
back and forth about the possible return of the NBA
and the SuperSonics.
Speaker 10 (26:38):
I'm going to end with a question that I've asked
six other mayors, Wow, Greg Nichols, Mike McGinn, Ed Murray,
Tim Burgess, Bruce Harold, Jenny Durkin, Because the city does
have a financial interest in Seattle Center and what happens
at Seattle Center, and there has been a story spanning
all of these mayors about the Sonics leaving Seattle and
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whether they'll ever come back. So you're the seventh mayor,
I'm asking now about this, what are you going to
do to bring.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
The Sonics back?
Speaker 11 (27:15):
I think we have a really good shot, that's all
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
There.
Speaker 11 (27:23):
It actually wasn't, but yeah, I don't regret it.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
I don't think she has any idea what the hell
she's talking about, but that's just me.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
It's possible.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I also think this that she's going to play no
role in the return.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
At the arena is done.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
I mean, the reason why this was a question for
previous mayors was because of the arena.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
She may reap the benefits of it. That term, she
might be.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
A saying, hey, you know I was the mayor when
the Sonics came back.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Well I would do that, I her. You know why,
because people are stupid and they'll buy that. I was
on the watch when the Sonics came back, and there's
people out there that will buy that and might even
vote for her because of it. But you know, look,
I mean I don't think she really has any idea
about any of this. Stuff, just my personal opinion. But
I also don't think that the mayor's office at this
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point will play any.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Role whatsoever in the NBA returning. All right, Hey, Dick
and yea, happen to hear what's that? All right? Five six,
seven eight, you picked Jackson five five.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Yesterday on ESPN, college football reporter Pete Thamil talked about
how the Demon Williams situation is a turning point for
the sports and the future of paying athletes.
Speaker 12 (28:31):
People really think this is a flashpoint for the future
of college athletics. It quite frankly, Brian has been an
embarrassment to the sport that they can't get valid contracts done.
And look, I had one head coach called me today
and he said, I don't even know who to call
when somebody's tampering. I don't even know who's in charge. Basically,
and in this moment in time, here is a symptom
of bigger problems all around the sport of college athletics.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
People.
Speaker 12 (28:54):
The NCAA technically is in charge of tampering. The CSC,
newly formed, is in charge of a flory of things,
but none of them are tampering in this case. Tampering
is so prevalent Brian that there's really no way to
enforce it. It's become a way of life, and recent legal
rulings have even made it hard for the NCAA. Informed
tampering Tennessee took the Ncate of court within the last
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few months. In the ruling and injunction there made it
hard for the Ncate enforce its own rules. So this
is a complicated time. There's nobody really in charge and
everyone is looking at Demand Williams's situation for answers for
the future of how college football works.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
Now.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
When we talked about this the other day that just
like Phil Luckett, I thought the helmet was a football
was influential and instant replay. Well, this the demand incident
be influential in changing college football.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
You know.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Aaron Fentriss, by the way, works for the Oregonian. He
sent me a tweet today. Maybe he's just being a
smart ass because he has a smart ass. By the way,
that nobody outside of Seattle cares about Demon Williams, which
is ridiculous. Wow, you got that guy right there on
ESPN Serious Radio had me on the ear today talking
about it. Everybody around the country's talking about Demon Williams,
and everybody understands how this might influence the future of
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college athletics. So when doults like that say things like that,
it's just ignoramus to the fullest.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5 (30:11):
This might be honestly, I mean Dick winning the National
Championship in ninety one, playing for the championship, the Boys
in the Boat, and the Olympics back in the day.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
This could be the most.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Influential moment in Washington sports history as far as the
impact on the rest of the country.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
What just happened yesterday and your president becoming the NCAA president,
that would.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Be one as well.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
But I think as horrible as the timing was when
he made his first announcement announcement during the memorial service,
the timing couldn't have been better for Washington to have
it come down an hour before the nasal, half hour
before the National Championship semi final, and it be broken
on ESPN while everybody's watching the pregame.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Well, everybody knows who he is now and if it's
a popularity contest, and we'll see what that popularity does.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Come I'm come August and the polls.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
We're gonna break Mike McDonald, Seahawk head coach, joined Chuck
and Buck and Ashley this morning. We're gonna listen in
a little bit next on ninety three to three KJRFM.
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Speaker 3 (31:26):
Dear Hill Junior is the running back.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
The quick passage of second that's gonna be running.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Touchdown, Jo Ponds.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
There you go, Sean McDonough ESPN, D'Angelo Ponds where they
picked six on the first play of the game for
Dante Moore.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Indiana leads Oregon twenty one to seven. By the way,
eight minutes to go in the second quarter and Dante
Moore so far directly responsible for two Indiana touchdowns. You
gotta fumble that Indiana recovered inside the Oregon five yard line.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
They scored three plays later.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Ducks have the ball second and ten from their own
twenty five, but Indiana leading twenty one to seven in
the National semi final. As we speak, all right, Mike
McDonald dick Seahawks head coach with the morning show Chuck
and Buck and Ashley earlier this morning.
Speaker 14 (32:16):
How much did you allow yourself your team to celebrate
a little bit the accomplishment of the regular season before
diving into, obviously the meat and potatoes of a playoff run.
Speaker 11 (32:26):
Yeah, well, it's, uh, you definitely want to You definitely
want to enjoy and celebrate the wins.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Right we talk.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
If we talked stacking wins and you never celebrate anything,
that'd be kind of a miserable existence. So you know,
you know, we're having the game on Saturday. It was
great because it let us have Sunday to kind of
recalibrate and put a plan together for the week two. So, uh,
you know, we had Sunday off, and then we came
in Monday and really started kind of executing our bie
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week plan and off we went. So but it's it's
been great.
Speaker 14 (32:58):
Clint Kubiak obviously supporting him and his pursuits to possibly
become a head coach himself versus his responsibilities to this team.
How are you handling that? How are you making sure
he handles his business as your offensive coordinator.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
Well, one thing I really respect about Clint was as
this process started, the team is really, you know, the
absolute priority in his mind, and he made that very
clear in his actions back that up too, And so
I really feel like it's more my responsibility to give
him the kind of hey, like the great of the team, like, look,
we trust you handling your responsibilities.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
This week.
Speaker 11 (33:36):
You know, we're gonna have two days off as coaches
here on Friday and Saturday, and you can take advantage
of that time to interview with the teams that are
interested in with you, and then we'll go from there.
So he's been he's been a great partner, and obviously
he's done great things for our team and our offense,
and we expect that going forward and wishing the best
in the process. But you know, when it's a Seahawk time,
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he's been, he's been right on it, and and I
know he's looking forward to really just kind of get
him back into a kind of a one track mind
here once these interviews are done.
Speaker 14 (34:06):
Uh Sunday, Mike McDonald with us here on Chuck and
Buck in the Morning, Sports Radio ninety three point three.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
K j R f M.
Speaker 14 (34:13):
So let's talk about your quarterback. The entire nation, even
some people here locally seem really worried about his number
of turnovers. Why is Mike McDonald not worried about that
at all?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (34:25):
I think I think we're worried about what Sam does.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
All the inputs.
Speaker 11 (34:30):
You know, it's because it's it's it's easy to tell.
Like I've said this before, but when you start coaching outcomes,
that's that to me, that's like confusing as a player.
You know, like, uh, I don't know make like you
gotta make that tackle or you gotta like why don't
you get a sack on that play? Like, well, you
know why, why wouldn't you work? Why wouldn't you be
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coaching me on where I went aligned and how I
got off the football and like the how I like
how I attack like the the contact zone in the rush,
or how I finished the play. Well, the same thing
with the quarterback. You know, it's what was your mentality
going to the play. Okay, let's coach your footwork up?
Where did your eyes start? How'd you see the read?
You know where you just cite it in that moment?
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The way we want you to play. You know, I
think those are the things that are clear to a
player on how you want them to play. And if
you start coaching outcomes now you now, I think you're
going to start getting players on your team that aren't
playing the way you want and uh, you don't get
the style of play that we've been able to create.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
And so.
Speaker 11 (35:31):
You know, it's the most important position, and and and
Sam is a great player. But the way we coach
our guys is going to remain the same and and
that and that's and that's just how we're going to
roll here, you know. Is I just I believe that
that's definitely the way to do it.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Do you think he works out with the players, By
the way, McDonald, he's got some guns now, he does the.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Gym, little bench press.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
I don't think he die with the guy in there
and work out with the guy.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Honestly.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
I think he gets there at probably five fifteen.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
In the morning and does it for an hour and
a half.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
At that time, you think people would pay of like
a live stream of Mike McDonald working out at the vMac.
He shows up five o'clock, drops his bag off in
his office, heads down to the gym and just just
a live webcam just watching Mike McDonald work out.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 9 (36:18):
Man.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
We had Milan on earlier today and he doesn't like
to give predictions, but I guilted him into giving a prediction.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
He thinks the Hawks are playing the Rams on this weekend.
I would bet that as well. I mean, I think
I thinks the Bears win, the Eagles win, the Rams win, right.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
Yes, I feel most confident that the Rams will win.
I feel the second most confident that the Eagles will win.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I do think that.
Speaker 8 (36:40):
I do think that the Packers have a puncher's chance.
But I don't know why it is flipped from Bears
favored to Packers favorite.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
It's just it's hard to imagine, based on what we've
been programmed into our brain, that Ben Johnson beats Matt
Lafleur and Caleb Williams beats Jordan Love Right, that's hard
to imagine something like that happening.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
But the Packers are favored in this game.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
I think a lot of people just wait till the
Bears fall flat on their face, and that Caleb Williams
might not be ready for a moment like this. I
mean Harlan likes the Eagles to play the Seahawks and
the NFC championship. We do know this, guys, because of
the parody in the NFL, there's going to be some
crazy upset in this wild CARDA is Well, I'm just saying,
where's it act?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Right?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Is it Carolina beating the ram.
Speaker 8 (37:24):
That's the only crazy as that that there even could be.
I don't think any other I don't think any other
outcome can be seen as a crazy upsetde.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Well, from the spread perspective of the other game would
be the Niners getting six against Philadelphia, but I don't
think that's a crazy The next one is the Chargers
getting three and a half. So the two biggest upsets
would be the Carolina Panthers and the Niners winning. We're
gonna break Jedfish. You're not gonna want to miss this.
What the heck was the last two days?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Like?
Speaker 5 (37:51):
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