November 14, 2025 • 31 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain discuss Sunday’s Seahawks game against the Rams and the stakes in the NFC, the MVP vote for Aaron Judge over Cal Raleigh, then get a Fact or Fiction pick before Lee Sterling shares his best football bets.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Boss is making us work overtime. An we getting paid
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be when I was a fat ass. It used to
be you do like cake pops whatever they are, K pops?
Is that what you call mugger K pops? Well, Jackson
Jackson Feltz is out today. He's got the sniffles, so
he's not here, By the way, I do find it
interesting that Jay, it's a Friday and Jackson decides not
to be here and he says he's not feeling well.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Okay, yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
If you see Jackson Felts partying somewhere down in Rusting
Way tonight, then you know he's full of it.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So look, he's not here today.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
But Travis Muger the ogret is with us here hanging
out until seven thirty. We're hanging out a little bit
later tonight because we got Husky basketball Pullman, Coog's and
Dogs coming to pregame seven thirty, tip off at eight
from Pullman, Tony's gonna have to make it back for
tomorrow's Husky game, by the way, with a kickoff of
that Bad Boy at four o'clock tomorrow. Our show begins
(01:41):
at twelve o'clock from You Dub. But the big one,
the big one, boys, is the Hawks and Rams on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Lots to look out for. Man.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
First of all, you better you better keep an eye
on those tight ends man for the Rams tomorrow. You
better keep an eye on those sneaky tight ends for
the Rams. You know why, you know why, Dick, Why
is that you know who their tight ends coaches there
in LA. I'd mean your old buddy, Scotty Huff, the
former Husky offensive life, Which is exactly what I told
him when he took the job. I said, what do
(02:09):
you know about coaching tight ends? He actually coached tight
ends for a couple of years at Boise State. Tight
end the tight end coach, and I really hope that
Jordan Powpal is not tuning in right now. The tight
end coach seems like the type of job that you
would give a guy just to get somebody on your staff,
right like more so in college football that you know
what we want on your staff are the staff. You're
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a you're a great recruiter, you're a good scheme guy.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
So he coach tight end, didn't ju he coaches?
Speaker 6 (02:37):
He did?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yes he did. That's my point. You just want to
get a guy on the staff.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It's like the new code word for, you know, quality
control coach or whatever the hell it is. You know
what a quality control coach does in the NFL. He
makes sure that guys aren't smoking dope in their room
the night before a game. That's what they do. I
want to do that, and they make sure that guys
are going to bet on time. That's what they're doing.
So Scotty, the old ub offensive line coaches coaching tight
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ends with the Rams. And you also got to keep
an eye on that sneaky senior defensive assistant that they
have on Sean mcvay's staff.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You know who that is. By the way, i'd be our.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Old buddy, Jimmy Lakes on the Rams coaching staff. So
Sean mcvaigh is just poaching all these ex dogs And look, man,
from a coaching perspective, we talked about this earlier in
the week. I think it's a phenomenal coaching matchup. I'm
almost more intrigued by the coaching matchup than i am
the actual players and the matchup on Sunday. And look, man,
isn't this dick? Why you hire Mike McDonald for games
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like this? Like when you hired Pete Carroll, you knew
he was a defensive guy with a great defensive background.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So what do you expect to have? You expect to
have an e lead defense.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Orr.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
If we're gonna have a defensive minded coach, the defense
better be damn good. Like if Mike Holmgan was here
as the coach of the Seahawks and the offense stunk.
You're like, what's the point of that, man. Mike's supposed
to be one of the great offensive minds in the
history of the NFL, and they were very good at
They were number one in offense the year they went
to the Super Bowl in two thousand and five against Pittsburg.
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So this is kind of another one of those games,
if not, maybe, Dick, I don't know if you agree
or not, the biggest example yet of why you hired
Mike McDonald to be your head coach, to go head
to head against Sean mcvack.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Yeah, because the two Kings of the NFC West over
the last four or five years have been the two
brightest young offensive minds, right, and that's Shanahan and McCrae.
And so now we hopefully I was going to say,
we have the antidote. We believe we have the antidote,
but this is gonna be the first test, and I
think this is going to be a lower scoring game
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that favors the Seahawks, even though I don't think they're
necessarily going to win the game. But what I don't
want to have happen and will absolutely happen one hundred
percent is if the Seahawks win the game by three,
all of a sudden, they're legit Super Bowl contenders. But
if they lose the game by three, well, they're clearly
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not what the Rams are a right. I mean, you
could have a one or two play difference in a
football game, and the narrative is either going to be
you're the best team in the NFC or the Super
Bowl favorite are You're not.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Quite ready for the big game. So let me just
make sure I know what you're saying. So this is
how we do things, Travis, Welcome to the Afternoon Show.
It takes like not like five minutes for me to
be irritated, and that's what's going on here. So let
me just make sure I'm hearing your right, because I
may not have been hearing your right. I was looking
at Twitter and I kind of tuned out like half
of what you said. So you're telling me that the
Hawks could lose a close game to the Rams, And
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you think people will have that attitude on Monday, that
people will that they're not good enough to beat the
Rams to lose a close game.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I think I think the the national narrative will certainly
be the rams of the team to beat Hawks lose
an odds, well, sure, I mean I think you're probably right,
But somebody's got to be the team to beat, right.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I mean, if this is going to be billed as
the game of the week in the NFL, which a
lot of people are billing it, as other people are
saying Lions Eagles on Sunday, I get that, but this
is I think what I've observed on the websites that
I frequent is that a lot of people think this
is the game of the week of the NFL. And
if it is the game of the week of the NFL,
if it is two of the top three teams whatever
in the NFL, somebody's got to be the team to beat, right,
(06:13):
Like nobody's gonna put a power pool out and say,
well we got code number ones after a week ten
of the NFL. So I mean, I think you'll probably
see that. I don't think Seahawk fans will feel that way.
I mean, I'll be I'm not gonna flip out if
the Hawks go down there and fight their asses off
and lose a three point games at all, what is.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Gonna concern me? The only thing that could concern me.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I guess about this game is if the Seahawk offense
goes down to LA and just looks terrible for four quarters,
Jackson Smith and Jigbuck can't get off. Sam Darnold's under siege,
the entire the offensive line is getting shoved around, can't
run the ball, They're two for fifteen on third down.
KOBIAX on the sideline, they're scratching his head. He's got
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no answers whatsoever, because look this dude, this offense is
averaging thirty points a game. They're not gonna average thirty
points the game of the season comes to an end,
but they're averaging thirty points the game right now.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I'm with you and what you said earlier this week.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
If the defense goes down there and gives up twenty
seven whatever, Okay, fine, that's a great offense. Defense has
proven over the last seventeen games that they're pretty good.
I still think there's some folks out there that believe
the offense has a little bit to prove, and this
is a real big test for them. So I'm not
even asking for, you know, a thirty point game Sunday.
What I'm asking for is efficiency, right I'm asking to
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move the ball to be able to be multi dimensional,
and I'm asking for Sam Darnold to finish any question
about whether or not the Hawks made the right move,
going from Geno Smith to him, I think it's over, yes,
But for these stragglers out there, you don't think it's over.
The Genoites, the g nets out there, they can squash
all that nonsense.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
So that's what I'm looking at.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I'm glad you use the word multi dimensional because that's
perfect because I'm going to be a little mean here
when I say it like this.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
By the way, Dick's mean is not my mean, No enough,
totally different.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Let's I mean.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
You could make the argument that the Seattle Seahawks have
had a one trick pony offense all season long, Jackson Smith,
and now that trick has been unbelievable, but one trick
ponies for coaches in the NFL, after they see that
trick a few times, they should be able to shut
that down.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So Cooper Cup, so Tory Horden, so Ken.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Walker, Tory playing, Oh that's right, he's Zach Harmoney, Rashid Shaheed,
what other trick do you have? And that's gonna be
The question for Koobiak, does he have another trick up
his sleeve? Win Jackson Smith and Jiggbit doesn't have a
seven catch, yeah, one d and ten yard one touchdown
game like he has had most of the seasons.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Which is gonna happen eventually, man, right, there's no doubt
it's gonna happen eventually. And look, I'm just looking at
I don't think that that is mean as you put it.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Well, there's better ways to say it than one trick
pony offense, because you mentioned they score thirty I think,
but I think that they are kind of a one
trick pony.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I mean, at least in the you can call it
a two trick pony with Darnald and JSN hooking up.
But outside of Jackson Smith and Jigba, their next leading
receiver as far as passes caught is Cooper Cup and
he's sixty second in the NFL. He's sixty seconds. I mean,
Rashid Shaheed has been here for a game and he's
top thirty, I mean, just based on what he did
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in New Orleans. So they don't have anybody else besides
Jackson Smith and Jigba. The question is do they have
enough to have somebody else besides Jackson Smith and Jigba
the rest of the way, and I think they do.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
That's like a basketball team with your leading score averaging
thirty three a game and your next best score average
in eight point two, right, I mean, like you really
and eventually that player averaging thirty two points a game
isn't gonna average thirty two points a game anymore because
the teams are just gonna completely focus on them and
make somebody else beat him.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Well, Kenny Walker is nineteenth in the NFL and rushing yards,
which is actually kind of surprising that he's that high to.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Be totally honestly still disappointed. Of course that happened through
the season he was nineteen.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Of course. Well it's the same thing with you man.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It's just incredib how the Huskies and the Seahawks just
continue to have the same kind of issues every single year.
Washington's having receiving depth, Seahawks are having receiving depth problems.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
They had to go out and trade for Rashid Shaheed.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Both teams are having run game problems right, and neither
the team can really run the ball with two guys
in Kenny Walker and Joonah Coleman that we think are
pretty good, right. We think Jonah Coleman's a really good player.
We think Kenny Walker is a really good player. The
difference between Kenny Walker and Jonah Coleman. Joanna Coleman can
at least say I got an offensive line that's banged
up in a nineteen year old quarterback. I mean, Kenny
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Walker really doesn't have any excuse. The offensive line has
been healthy all year except for now with the center out.
But they've been healthy all year long, and he's got
to stud a quarterback. So what the hell is going
on with Kenny Walker? And can they continue winning unless
Kenny Walker or somebody yill steps up? So I don't know, man,
I haven't been this fired up for a Seahawks regular
season game in a long long time. I think it's
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fantastic for the NFL. It's fantastic for the city of Seattle.
I think it's even more fantas for John Schneider that
two years after firing Pete Carroll, he's got a team
that if they win a game on Sunday, by Monday morning,
people will say they're the best team in football. And
that's a year and a half after he got rid
of Pete Carroll. This guy made two choices to get
rid of Pete and to get rid of Russell, and
(11:16):
both of them look like winners.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Right.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
That's so funny is that so many people, particularly nationally,
not as much around here, particularly nashally, said wow, without
Gino and DK Metcalf, how is this team going to win?
And it's like, wait a second, without Geno and DK Metcalf,
you brought in a quarterback that we said all along
is better than Geno Smith. Now, even you and I
didn't think he'd be this much better than Gino Smith.
(11:38):
We thought he'd be slightly Margo.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
I thought he'd be I thought he would be reasonably
better than Geno Smith.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And I've never been a DK fan, you know that.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
And what are we seeing in Pittsburgh The same damn
dk Metcalf that we saw here is what we're seeing.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, I mean I'm a bigger DK fan.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And then you are, to be honest with you, and
I think I wonder what this team would look like
if dk Metcalf was still.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
On jsing what jas is done? Well, who knows? With
a different coordinator.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
And then I wonder what Ryan Grub would have done
with this offensive line and this unity's got I mean,
this is all like a lot has changed since last year.
First of the quarterback is the biggest difference. How different
would things have been for DK Metcalf with Sam Darnold
throwing him the ball? How different when things have been
for Ryan Grubb with this offensive line and Sam Darnold
instead of Gino Smith throwing picks in the red zone
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every other damn week. So I don't know. I mean,
it really doesn't matter. It's irrelevant now because those guys
are all gone. And I would just say again that
John Schneider has pushed the right buttons. I mean, this
was a guy that really is the guy that we
should be talking about, Dick because he was the guy
that was getting beat up by everybody. He better start
winning executive years. It's been ten years, been ten years
since his last Super Bowl? Does he still have it?
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And we're gonna find out kind of starting Sunday if
he's still got it, they go down there and get destroyed.
Then a lot of people may look at the last
nine games and think, like you did that they didn't
play anybody right, But they go down to LA and
they win, or even keep it tight whatever. I think
a lot of people may look at John and think
exactly that that he might be the executive of the
Year in the NFL. And I do think the problem
with him is he never went three and fourteen. So
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we'll see, and I do think they'll they'll keep it tight.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
I think this defense is too good to get blown
out by anybody. Yeah, you're going to have an off
game at some point over the course of the year.
I don't think this is going to be the off
game because they're going to be so dialed in. But
I mean I would be again much prefer a if
I have to lose this game, which I think is
going to happen, right, If I have to lose this game,
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I'd much rather lose it thirty one to twenty eight
than lose it seventeen to fourteen. Yeah, yeah, because then
if it's thirty one to twenty eight, I'm like, Okay,
this defense is going to be fine once they get
back home against the Rams the next time. But if
they only score fourteen in LA, I'm like, ah, maybe
we do have issues with this offense, because that's the
one side of the ball I'm most concerned about it.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I don't think Schneider is going to win the Executive
of the Year, by the way, for exactly the reason
why we just said they were a ten win ball
club last year. And yeah, you can argue the Rams
game was the JV Rams. I understand that. But what
Eli Wolf is doing with the Patriots and what Chris
Balder's doing with the Colts right now probably is going
to be enough to put one of those guys over
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the top. But that's really it's crazy, right that John
Schneider has been here for this sixteen years now, yeah,
two thousand, it's a sixteenth year on the job. He's
never won Executive of the Year ever in the NFL
because of exactly what we said. They've never sucked enough
to win Executive of the year.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
The Patriots had a higher over under to start the
season in the Seahacks, they did, but they were also
four and thirteen last year, right, and the Hawks were
ten and seven.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
So I don't know if Vegas or people that vote
on these things, honestly, media people whatever, really look at
things like schedule. But when you go from four and
thirteen to what are they nine and two.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Now is that right? You know they're nine and it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
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Speaker 3 (15:43):
The American League for the MVP yesterday. I did check
that out, Okay, sorry.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Very close.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Well, I heard the MJ in the midday.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
MJ in the midday between Howkin Sandwiches and Boner Pills
on his radio show, he talked about what.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
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Speaker 4 (16:04):
Tell you what you want, a ham sandwich and an erection.
Mark James is your guy. He'll take care of your baby.
He's got you covered big time. But I heard him
today on the air. He was talking about how he
thinks there's a lazy narrative for the East Coast biased
and all that, and it's just lazy. You want to
be stupid than say the coast bias. And he's his
his his evidence of their not being an East Coast bias,
(16:27):
he says, And I'll try. I'll take his word for
this because I haven't done the actual math myself because
I'm too lazy on that regard. He said that the
East Coast, Boston, Baltimore, New York, I guess, Chicago, Cleveland, whatever,
all broke down seven to seven in honor of cal
Rawley and Aaron Judge. It was a tie, to which
I would say, I think it's a ridiculous take by
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Mark James, to be honest with you, because maybe if
there was no bias, maybe it would have been ten
to four in favor of cal Raley. I mean, just
because it's even doesn't mean it was fair. And I
were talking today. How many times back in the day
of the NBA did we say, well, you know, the
game was called fairly because both teams took forty free throws.
That doesn't mean anything. That doesn't mean the game was
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called fairly at all. It may have been called horribly,
but it just worked out that both teams had the
same amount of free throws. Like one team may even
mug in the other and maybe the other team deserve
to have thirty more free throws than the other team did.
I just want the game called correctly, is what I want.
I'm not looking for fairness. I'm looking for the correct
call to be made. So I don't believe that the
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fact that it was seven to seven doesn't show that
it was an East Coast bias. And honestly, I don't
know if there was an East Coast bias or not.
Like I'm not going to get into the heads of
Ian Brown or Peter Abraham from the Boston Globe or
Scott Murkin from MLB dot com in Chicago or Paul
Hoyins from Cleveland and consider those guys to have East
Coast biases.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I have no idea. I just know this, And Dan Patrick.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Said it today and I'm almost kind of like more
apt to believe this than if cal Riley played for
the Yankees and he had sixty home runs and Major
League Baseball was putting him in the same category as
Roger Maris and Babe Ruth and guys like that, and
breaking Mickey Mannos record. I think it might have gotten
a little more attention nationally. And it got a lot
of attention nationally, but maybe a little more attention, maybe
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it would have been enough. I mean, you want to
look at the breakdown in his own division, he got
beat out five to.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Three by Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
The two guys from Texas voted for Judge, the two
guys from Houston voted for Judge. One guy from San Francisco,
Martin Gegos from MLB dot Com, who covers the A's
in Sacramento, voted for Judge. It was five to three,
an honor of Aaron Judge in the division amongst the
other four teams that don't cover the Mariners. Because Tim
(18:47):
Booth and Ryan Divish obviously did vote for cal raw
it was five to five, but the other four teams
it was five to three. If you flip that, Dick,
we got co MVPs the American League.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
If you flip it.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Yeah, saying what you're saying, it doesn't necessarily prove that
there was an East coast bias by a seven seven.
But I just keep going back to the Heisman Trophy
and where we just saw it clearly and we don't
see it clearly here the Heisman, for example, Christian McCaffrey,
I mean christimers kaffrey got hammered in the voting by
the Southeast. It was all went to Derrick Henry, and
(19:22):
Christian McCaffrey had just as good of credentials as Derek
Derreck Henry, maybe better.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I do think I agree more with Boar's head.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
So you're saying there's no East coast, there's no East
Coast bias, well, because the example you just gave is
implying that there is an East coast.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Buyers, no, no in this.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
I'm using that as an example of the true East got,
you got, you got, whereas this was.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Nowhere like that.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
And had we seen instead of seven to seven, had
we see it ten to four, have we seen it
eleven three for Aaron Judge, then I think you could
clearly see that there was an East Coast.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I just again, I I don't know how you can
say either way, That's my point. I don't know how
you can sit there and just understand without a doubt
that again, Brett Garoli from the Athletic in Baltimore, who
actually voted for col Or Peter Abraham, who voted for
Aaron Judge, that these guys were or were not influenced
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by where they work and where they live in the
amount of games that they saw. I think my point is,
I think you can make great arguments on both sides
that a lot of these games are late at night.
You know, you don't watch them play. Maybe there is
a little bit of a hesitancy to vote for a
guy that plays for the lowly Mariners versus somebody who
plays for the giant, big bad Yankees.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I don't have any idea.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I'm just saying this the idea that we're going to say, well,
it was seven to seven, so that proves there's no
East Coast bias.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
How can you say that just based on the vote.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I mean again, if there was a biased or there
was not a bias, it easily could have gone the
other way. Maybe the other way for Judge or the
other way for cal Raley. All right, factor fiction right
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let's get to it. We think that the Washington Commanders
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are going to go into the fish Bowl in Miami.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Is it hard Rock Stadium? Is that right? Is that
what they call down there? And they're getting two and
a half points.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
They're making a change at their defensive coordinator spot, meaning
Dan Quinn, the head coach is taking over defensive play
calling duties. The Dolphins are fat and happy coming off
their big win over Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
They think they're.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Good now by the way in Miami, and here come
the Commanders, needing a win to save their season and
get back in the playoff race. Things are so dire
for them that Deeku says, give me the reins of
the defense. I'll be calling the defense from now on.
And they're getting two and a half points against the Dolphins.
Let's take the Commanders and the points at Miami. Fact
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Speaker 1 (22:06):
Commander's been a victim of the schedule.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
These are their last four games Detroit, Seattle, at Kansas City,
at Dallas.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I mean it has.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Been a brutal run for them. They lost all four
of those games. This game is much more commensurate with
when they beat the Vegas by seventeen, when they beat
New York by fifteen, when they beat they beat the
Chargers by seventeen. So this is a Commander's team that
clearly can beat Miami.
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By the way, let me correct myself, the game is
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I like it even more so now because whatever stupid
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Speaker 3 (24:33):
Lee, how are you, man?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
I'm okay, pretty good. Just cut off the treadmill and
get a little bit tougher every single year.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, I was gonna tell you last time I saw
you're getting kind of chubby. So I'm glad that you're
jumping on the trail boat by the way. So yeah,
really really proud of you. We're trying to shed that
that baby fat pal. All right, let's get to it.
USC at home at the Coliseum hosting the Iowa hawk guys.
Coming off a hard fought game against the Ducks on Saturday,
Trojans are given six and a half.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
What do you see there at the coliseum?
Speaker 6 (25:06):
A lot of rain is gonna be one hundred percent
chance of rain for this game tomorrow. I loved USC
when the line came out, loved them before I saw
the fordcast, still liked them. King Miller and Wayman Jordan
have combined forever twelve hundred rushing yards ten touchdowns, averaging
between seven point nine and six point five yards per carry.
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And what makes this defense different than all other years?
Last year just twenty one sacks. This year they're averaging
almost three sacks per game and an interception per game.
I mean, who knows where Iowa is after that crushing
loss us. He has been great at home five and
oh straight up four and one against the spread. The
only time that they didn't cover was that Michigan State
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bomb seventy five yard bomb with two minutes to go
in the game, or else they'd be a perfect five
and oh against the spread. Sometimes you gotta low it
if you want to play it. USC twenty eight to seventeen.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
All right, Oregon got a scare last week and Kinnick,
but they're back home. Taken on Minnesota, but they are
given a big number minus twenty five and a half
for the Duckies.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I think the better line here might be to take
the first half line, but we'll still go with Oregon.
Full game here. Minnesota was off paying attention, but you
know how much can that help them? They just don't
have any guys here they can break a tackle and
go the distance. The only thing maybe giving them a
chance to keep the game down bottom five pace of play,
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getting off just fifty seven plays per game. But I
think the Ducks will be just too much. They hit
on big plays even with some of those injuries. On offense, Ducks,
they're forty one, Minnesota thirteen.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Gotcha, So take the Ducks and give the points. Man,
all right, you dub Purdue. Here's the thing. Purdue has
lost sixteen consecutive Big Ten Conference games. The last time
Purdue won a conference game, Pete Carroll was still almost
two months away from being fired by the Seahawks as
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their head coach. That's how long it's been since they
won a conference game. Huskies are back home. They're angry
after getting beat by Wisconsin Saturday. They're given sixteen and
a half. What do you think if they lose?
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Are you gonna walk all the way to Purdue? No?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
No, they If they lose this game, I just might
take Monday off.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
To be honest with you, Yeah, okay, all right, we
will deserve But I think they're gonna be fine here.
I mean, they win that game by two three touchdowns
last week if the conditions are decent. Jed Fish, I
think put the hammer down. Looks like most of the
starters will be back on offense. And Purdue they just
can't stop big plays here another Sometimes you got to
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want to lay it, you got to play it here.
I think Williams has a big game here at quarterback.
I think Washington wins this game five to ten.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Okay, all right to the NFL.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
One of the two big games in the NFC, this
one coming on Sunday night football, Eagles hosting the Lions.
The Eagles giving up two and a half points.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
So you like that game was ugly last Monday night. Horrible,
But still you go on the road and you win
a game. Ugly on the road is versus a winning
opponent is still a good thing. Eagles scored only ten points.
I think the advantage here is to go against Detroit cornerback,
so I'm expecting the AJ Brown. I think they're going
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to pass by him, get him the ball. You can't
single cover this guy here, so he has a big
game here, and I think Dan Campbell gonna be up
against it here with this Philly defensive front now with
Jalen Phillips added from Miami. So I like Philly. Let's
go with Philly twenty seven to twenty gotch Troy all Right.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Game of the Week Ram Seahawks seven and two versus
seven and two. Whoever wins takes control of the nfc WS.
What do you think Rams are now giving three and
a half at home against the Hawks.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
And whoever wins this game of quarterback could be the
early leader, you know for the possible MVP. Sam Darnold
nine point nine yards per past the tenth full yard
better than Drake May who's an eight point nine. And
Seattle's two losses against San Francisco and Tampa Bay lad
with left in two minutes left in that game, I
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think the key here is to put the heat on
Stafford thirteen touchdowns, no interceptions, last three games. He's only
been sacked three times in three games Seattle thirty two
sacks and nine games they get three or more sacks.
I predict they win the game forever Seattle. Since the
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Rams thirty to twenty six.
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Speaker 4 (30:34):
All right, Lee, you're the man, great stuff. We appreciate
this and we will talk in a week. My friends,
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Okay, okay, all right, Lee Sterling.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
He likes the Trojans to cover against Iowa, he likes
Oregon minus the points against Minnesota at augsin Huskies, barry
Purdue and cover Eagles cover against the Lions. And he
likes the Seahawks, plus the points the three and a
half against the Rams. By the way, just doing some
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There you go, well, one hundred dollars pays twenty two
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All Right, boys and girls, here we going a busy
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Boss is making us work overtime. An we getting paid
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be when I was a fat ass. It used to
be you do like cake pops whatever they are, K pops?
Is that what you call mugger K pops? Well, Jackson
Jackson Feltz is out today. He's got the sniffles, so
he's not here, By the way, I do find it
interesting that Jay, it's a Friday and Jackson decides not
to be here and he says he's not feeling well.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Okay, yeah, we'll see.
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If you see Jackson Felts partying somewhere down in Rusting
Way tonight, then you know he's full of it.
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So look, he's not here today.
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But Travis Muger the ogret is with us here hanging
out until seven thirty. We're hanging out a little bit
later tonight because we got Husky basketball Pullman, Coog's and
Dogs coming to pregame seven thirty, tip off at eight
from Pullman, Tony's gonna have to make it back for
tomorrow's Husky game, by the way, with a kickoff of
that Bad Boy at four o'clock tomorrow. Our show begins
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at twelve o'clock from You Dub. But the big one,
the big one, boys, is the Hawks and Rams on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Lots to look out for. Man.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
First of all, you better you better keep an eye
on those tight ends man for the Rams tomorrow. You
better keep an eye on those sneaky tight ends for
the Rams. You know why, you know why, Dick, Why
is that you know who their tight ends coaches there
in LA. I'd mean your old buddy, Scotty Huff, the
former Husky offensive life, Which is exactly what I told
him when he took the job. I said, what do
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you know about coaching tight ends? He actually coached tight
ends for a couple of years at Boise State. Tight
end the tight end coach, and I really hope that
Jordan Powpal is not tuning in right now. The tight
end coach seems like the type of job that you
would give a guy just to get somebody on your staff,
right like more so in college football that you know
what we want on your staff are the staff. You're
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a you're a great recruiter, you're a good scheme guy.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
So he coach tight end, didn't ju he coaches?
Speaker 6 (02:37):
He did?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yes he did. That's my point. You just want to
get a guy on the staff.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It's like the new code word for, you know, quality
control coach or whatever the hell it is. You know
what a quality control coach does in the NFL. He
makes sure that guys aren't smoking dope in their room
the night before a game. That's what they do. I
want to do that, and they make sure that guys
are going to bet on time. That's what they're doing.
So Scotty, the old ub offensive line coaches coaching tight
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ends with the Rams. And you also got to keep
an eye on that sneaky senior defensive assistant that they
have on Sean mcvay's staff.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You know who that is. By the way, i'd be our.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Old buddy, Jimmy Lakes on the Rams coaching staff. So
Sean mcvaigh is just poaching all these ex dogs And look, man,
from a coaching perspective, we talked about this earlier in
the week. I think it's a phenomenal coaching matchup. I'm
almost more intrigued by the coaching matchup than i am
the actual players and the matchup on Sunday. And look, man,
isn't this dick? Why you hire Mike McDonald for games
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like this? Like when you hired Pete Carroll, you knew
he was a defensive guy with a great defensive background.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So what do you expect to have? You expect to
have an e lead defense.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Orr.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
If we're gonna have a defensive minded coach, the defense
better be damn good. Like if Mike Holmgan was here
as the coach of the Seahawks and the offense stunk.
You're like, what's the point of that, man. Mike's supposed
to be one of the great offensive minds in the
history of the NFL, and they were very good at
They were number one in offense the year they went
to the Super Bowl in two thousand and five against Pittsburg.
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So this is kind of another one of those games,
if not, maybe, Dick, I don't know if you agree
or not, the biggest example yet of why you hired
Mike McDonald to be your head coach, to go head
to head against Sean mcvack.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Yeah, because the two Kings of the NFC West over
the last four or five years have been the two
brightest young offensive minds, right, and that's Shanahan and McCrae.
And so now we hopefully I was going to say,
we have the antidote. We believe we have the antidote,
but this is gonna be the first test, and I
think this is going to be a lower scoring game
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that favors the Seahawks, even though I don't think they're
necessarily going to win the game. But what I don't
want to have happen and will absolutely happen one hundred
percent is if the Seahawks win the game by three,
all of a sudden, they're legit Super Bowl contenders. But
if they lose the game by three, well, they're clearly
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not what the Rams are a right. I mean, you
could have a one or two play difference in a
football game, and the narrative is either going to be
you're the best team in the NFC or the Super
Bowl favorite are You're not.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Quite ready for the big game. So let me just
make sure I know what you're saying. So this is
how we do things, Travis, Welcome to the Afternoon Show.
It takes like not like five minutes for me to
be irritated, and that's what's going on here. So let
me just make sure I'm hearing your right, because I
may not have been hearing your right. I was looking
at Twitter and I kind of tuned out like half
of what you said. So you're telling me that the
Hawks could lose a close game to the Rams, And
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you think people will have that attitude on Monday, that
people will that they're not good enough to beat the
Rams to lose a close game.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I think I think the the national narrative will certainly
be the rams of the team to beat Hawks lose
an odds, well, sure, I mean I think you're probably right,
But somebody's got to be the team to beat, right.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I mean, if this is going to be billed as
the game of the week in the NFL, which a
lot of people are billing it, as other people are
saying Lions Eagles on Sunday, I get that, but this
is I think what I've observed on the websites that
I frequent is that a lot of people think this
is the game of the week of the NFL. And
if it is the game of the week of the NFL,
if it is two of the top three teams whatever
in the NFL, somebody's got to be the team to beat, right,
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Like nobody's gonna put a power pool out and say,
well we got code number ones after a week ten
of the NFL. So I mean, I think you'll probably
see that. I don't think Seahawk fans will feel that way.
I mean, I'll be I'm not gonna flip out if
the Hawks go down there and fight their asses off
and lose a three point games at all, what is.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Gonna concern me? The only thing that could concern me.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I guess about this game is if the Seahawk offense
goes down to LA and just looks terrible for four quarters,
Jackson Smith and Jigbuck can't get off. Sam Darnold's under siege,
the entire the offensive line is getting shoved around, can't
run the ball, They're two for fifteen on third down.
KOBIAX on the sideline, they're scratching his head. He's got
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no answers whatsoever, because look this dude, this offense is
averaging thirty points a game. They're not gonna average thirty
points the game of the season comes to an end,
but they're averaging thirty points the game right now.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I'm with you and what you said earlier this week.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
If the defense goes down there and gives up twenty
seven whatever, Okay, fine, that's a great offense. Defense has
proven over the last seventeen games that they're pretty good.
I still think there's some folks out there that believe
the offense has a little bit to prove, and this
is a real big test for them. So I'm not
even asking for, you know, a thirty point game Sunday.
What I'm asking for is efficiency, right I'm asking to
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move the ball to be able to be multi dimensional,
and I'm asking for Sam Darnold to finish any question
about whether or not the Hawks made the right move,
going from Geno Smith to him, I think it's over, yes,
But for these stragglers out there, you don't think it's over.
The Genoites, the g nets out there, they can squash
all that nonsense.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
So that's what I'm looking at.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I'm glad you use the word multi dimensional because that's
perfect because I'm going to be a little mean here
when I say it like this.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
By the way, Dick's mean is not my mean, No enough,
totally different.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Let's I mean.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
You could make the argument that the Seattle Seahawks have
had a one trick pony offense all season long, Jackson Smith,
and now that trick has been unbelievable, but one trick
ponies for coaches in the NFL, after they see that
trick a few times, they should be able to shut
that down.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So Cooper Cup, so Tory Horden, so Ken.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Walker, Tory playing, Oh that's right, he's Zach Harmoney, Rashid Shaheed,
what other trick do you have? And that's gonna be
The question for Koobiak, does he have another trick up
his sleeve? Win Jackson Smith and Jiggbit doesn't have a
seven catch, yeah, one d and ten yard one touchdown
game like he has had most of the seasons.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Which is gonna happen eventually, man, right, there's no doubt
it's gonna happen eventually. And look, I'm just looking at
I don't think that that is mean as you put it.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Well, there's better ways to say it than one trick
pony offense, because you mentioned they score thirty I think,
but I think that they are kind of a one
trick pony.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I mean, at least in the you can call it
a two trick pony with Darnald and JSN hooking up.
But outside of Jackson Smith and Jigba, their next leading
receiver as far as passes caught is Cooper Cup and
he's sixty second in the NFL. He's sixty seconds. I mean,
Rashid Shaheed has been here for a game and he's
top thirty, I mean, just based on what he did
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in New Orleans. So they don't have anybody else besides
Jackson Smith and Jigba. The question is do they have
enough to have somebody else besides Jackson Smith and Jigba
the rest of the way, and I think they do.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
That's like a basketball team with your leading score averaging
thirty three a game and your next best score average
in eight point two, right, I mean, like you really
and eventually that player averaging thirty two points a game
isn't gonna average thirty two points a game anymore because
the teams are just gonna completely focus on them and
make somebody else beat him.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Well, Kenny Walker is nineteenth in the NFL and rushing yards,
which is actually kind of surprising that he's that high to.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Be totally honestly still disappointed. Of course that happened through
the season he was nineteen.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Of course. Well it's the same thing with you man.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It's just incredib how the Huskies and the Seahawks just
continue to have the same kind of issues every single year.
Washington's having receiving depth, Seahawks are having receiving depth problems.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
They had to go out and trade for Rashid Shaheed.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Both teams are having run game problems right, and neither
the team can really run the ball with two guys
in Kenny Walker and Joonah Coleman that we think are
pretty good, right. We think Jonah Coleman's a really good player.
We think Kenny Walker is a really good player. The
difference between Kenny Walker and Jonah Coleman. Joanna Coleman can
at least say I got an offensive line that's banged
up in a nineteen year old quarterback. I mean, Kenny
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Walker really doesn't have any excuse. The offensive line has
been healthy all year except for now with the center out.
But they've been healthy all year long, and he's got
to stud a quarterback. So what the hell is going
on with Kenny Walker? And can they continue winning unless
Kenny Walker or somebody yill steps up? So I don't know, man,
I haven't been this fired up for a Seahawks regular
season game in a long long time. I think it's
(10:55):
fantastic for the NFL. It's fantastic for the city of Seattle.
I think it's even more fantas for John Schneider that
two years after firing Pete Carroll, he's got a team
that if they win a game on Sunday, by Monday morning,
people will say they're the best team in football. And
that's a year and a half after he got rid
of Pete Carroll. This guy made two choices to get
rid of Pete and to get rid of Russell, and
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both of them look like winners.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Right.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
That's so funny is that so many people, particularly nationally,
not as much around here, particularly nashally, said wow, without
Gino and DK Metcalf, how is this team going to win?
And it's like, wait a second, without Geno and DK Metcalf,
you brought in a quarterback that we said all along
is better than Geno Smith. Now, even you and I
didn't think he'd be this much better than Gino Smith.
(11:38):
We thought he'd be slightly Margo.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
I thought he'd be I thought he would be reasonably
better than Geno Smith.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And I've never been a DK fan, you know that.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
And what are we seeing in Pittsburgh The same damn
dk Metcalf that we saw here is what we're seeing.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, I mean I'm a bigger DK fan.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And then you are, to be honest with you, and
I think I wonder what this team would look like
if dk Metcalf was still.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
On jsing what jas is done? Well, who knows? With
a different coordinator.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
And then I wonder what Ryan Grub would have done
with this offensive line and this unity's got I mean,
this is all like a lot has changed since last year.
First of the quarterback is the biggest difference. How different
would things have been for DK Metcalf with Sam Darnold
throwing him the ball? How different when things have been
for Ryan Grubb with this offensive line and Sam Darnold
instead of Gino Smith throwing picks in the red zone
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every other damn week. So I don't know. I mean,
it really doesn't matter. It's irrelevant now because those guys
are all gone. And I would just say again that
John Schneider has pushed the right buttons. I mean, this
was a guy that really is the guy that we
should be talking about, Dick because he was the guy
that was getting beat up by everybody. He better start
winning executive years. It's been ten years, been ten years
since his last Super Bowl? Does he still have it?
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And we're gonna find out kind of starting Sunday if
he's still got it, they go down there and get destroyed.
Then a lot of people may look at the last
nine games and think, like you did that they didn't
play anybody right, But they go down to LA and
they win, or even keep it tight whatever. I think
a lot of people may look at John and think
exactly that that he might be the executive of the
Year in the NFL. And I do think the problem
with him is he never went three and fourteen. So
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we'll see, and I do think they'll they'll keep it tight.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
I think this defense is too good to get blown
out by anybody. Yeah, you're going to have an off
game at some point over the course of the year.
I don't think this is going to be the off
game because they're going to be so dialed in. But
I mean I would be again much prefer a if
I have to lose this game, which I think is
going to happen, right, If I have to lose this game,
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I'd much rather lose it thirty one to twenty eight
than lose it seventeen to fourteen. Yeah, yeah, because then
if it's thirty one to twenty eight, I'm like, Okay,
this defense is going to be fine once they get
back home against the Rams the next time. But if
they only score fourteen in LA, I'm like, ah, maybe
we do have issues with this offense, because that's the
one side of the ball I'm most concerned about it.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I don't think Schneider is going to win the Executive
of the Year, by the way, for exactly the reason
why we just said they were a ten win ball
club last year. And yeah, you can argue the Rams
game was the JV Rams. I understand that. But what
Eli Wolf is doing with the Patriots and what Chris
Balder's doing with the Colts right now probably is going
to be enough to put one of those guys over
(14:15):
the top. But that's really it's crazy, right that John
Schneider has been here for this sixteen years now, yeah,
two thousand, it's a sixteenth year on the job. He's
never won Executive of the Year ever in the NFL
because of exactly what we said. They've never sucked enough
to win Executive of the year.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
The Patriots had a higher over under to start the
season in the Seahacks, they did, but they were also
four and thirteen last year, right, and the Hawks were
ten and seven.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
So I don't know if Vegas or people that vote
on these things, honestly, media people whatever, really look at
things like schedule. But when you go from four and
thirteen to what are they nine and two.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Now is that right? You know they're nine and it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
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Speaker 4 (14:53):
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Speaker 3 (15:43):
The American League for the MVP yesterday. I did check
that out, Okay, sorry.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Very close.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Well, I heard the MJ in the midday.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
MJ in the midday between Howkin Sandwiches and Boner Pills
on his radio show, he talked about what.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Course, borce head, baby, I'll.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Tell you what you want, a ham sandwich and an erection.
Mark James is your guy. He'll take care of your baby.
He's got you covered big time. But I heard him
today on the air. He was talking about how he
thinks there's a lazy narrative for the East Coast biased
and all that, and it's just lazy. You want to
be stupid than say the coast bias. And he's his
his his evidence of their not being an East Coast bias,
(16:27):
he says, And I'll try. I'll take his word for
this because I haven't done the actual math myself because
I'm too lazy on that regard. He said that the
East Coast, Boston, Baltimore, New York, I guess, Chicago, Cleveland, whatever,
all broke down seven to seven in honor of cal
Rawley and Aaron Judge. It was a tie, to which
I would say, I think it's a ridiculous take by
(16:49):
Mark James, to be honest with you, because maybe if
there was no bias, maybe it would have been ten
to four in favor of cal Raley. I mean, just
because it's even doesn't mean it was fair. And I
were talking today. How many times back in the day
of the NBA did we say, well, you know, the
game was called fairly because both teams took forty free throws.
That doesn't mean anything. That doesn't mean the game was
(17:10):
called fairly at all. It may have been called horribly,
but it just worked out that both teams had the
same amount of free throws. Like one team may even
mug in the other and maybe the other team deserve
to have thirty more free throws than the other team did.
I just want the game called correctly, is what I want.
I'm not looking for fairness. I'm looking for the correct
call to be made. So I don't believe that the
(17:31):
fact that it was seven to seven doesn't show that
it was an East Coast bias. And honestly, I don't
know if there was an East Coast bias or not.
Like I'm not going to get into the heads of
Ian Brown or Peter Abraham from the Boston Globe or
Scott Murkin from MLB dot com in Chicago or Paul
Hoyins from Cleveland and consider those guys to have East
Coast biases.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I have no idea. I just know this, And Dan Patrick.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Said it today and I'm almost kind of like more
apt to believe this than if cal Riley played for
the Yankees and he had sixty home runs and Major
League Baseball was putting him in the same category as
Roger Maris and Babe Ruth and guys like that, and
breaking Mickey Mannos record. I think it might have gotten
a little more attention nationally. And it got a lot
of attention nationally, but maybe a little more attention, maybe
(18:18):
it would have been enough. I mean, you want to
look at the breakdown in his own division, he got
beat out five to.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Three by Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
The two guys from Texas voted for Judge, the two
guys from Houston voted for Judge. One guy from San Francisco,
Martin Gegos from MLB dot Com, who covers the A's
in Sacramento, voted for Judge. It was five to three,
an honor of Aaron Judge in the division amongst the
other four teams that don't cover the Mariners. Because Tim
(18:47):
Booth and Ryan Divish obviously did vote for cal raw
it was five to five, but the other four teams
it was five to three. If you flip that, Dick,
we got co MVPs the American League.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
If you flip it.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Yeah, saying what you're saying, it doesn't necessarily prove that
there was an East coast bias by a seven seven.
But I just keep going back to the Heisman Trophy
and where we just saw it clearly and we don't
see it clearly here the Heisman, for example, Christian McCaffrey,
I mean christimers kaffrey got hammered in the voting by
the Southeast. It was all went to Derrick Henry, and
(19:22):
Christian McCaffrey had just as good of credentials as Derek
Derreck Henry, maybe better.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I do think I agree more with Boar's head.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
So you're saying there's no East coast, there's no East
Coast bias, well, because the example you just gave is
implying that there is an East coast.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Buyers, no, no in this.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
I'm using that as an example of the true East got,
you got, you got, whereas this was.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Nowhere like that.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
And had we seen instead of seven to seven, had
we see it ten to four, have we seen it
eleven three for Aaron Judge, then I think you could
clearly see that there was an East Coast.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I just again, I I don't know how you can
say either way, That's my point. I don't know how
you can sit there and just understand without a doubt
that again, Brett Garoli from the Athletic in Baltimore, who
actually voted for col Or Peter Abraham, who voted for
Aaron Judge, that these guys were or were not influenced
(20:16):
by where they work and where they live in the
amount of games that they saw. I think my point is,
I think you can make great arguments on both sides
that a lot of these games are late at night.
You know, you don't watch them play. Maybe there is
a little bit of a hesitancy to vote for a
guy that plays for the lowly Mariners versus somebody who
plays for the giant, big bad Yankees.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I don't have any idea.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I'm just saying this the idea that we're going to say, well,
it was seven to seven, so that proves there's no
East Coast bias.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
How can you say that just based on the vote.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I mean again, if there was a biased or there
was not a bias, it easily could have gone the
other way. Maybe the other way for Judge or the
other way for cal Raley. All right, factor fiction right
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let's get to it. We think that the Washington Commanders
(21:14):
are going to go into the fish Bowl in Miami.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Is it hard Rock Stadium? Is that right? Is that
what they call down there? And they're getting two and
a half points.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
They're making a change at their defensive coordinator spot, meaning
Dan Quinn, the head coach is taking over defensive play
calling duties. The Dolphins are fat and happy coming off
their big win over Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
They think they're.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Good now by the way in Miami, and here come
the Commanders, needing a win to save their season and
get back in the playoff race. Things are so dire
for them that Deeku says, give me the reins of
the defense. I'll be calling the defense from now on.
And they're getting two and a half points against the Dolphins.
Let's take the Commanders and the points at Miami. Fact
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Speaker 1 (22:06):
Commander's been a victim of the schedule.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
These are their last four games Detroit, Seattle, at Kansas City,
at Dallas.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I mean it has.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Been a brutal run for them. They lost all four
of those games. This game is much more commensurate with
when they beat the Vegas by seventeen, when they beat
New York by fifteen, when they beat they beat the
Chargers by seventeen. So this is a Commander's team that
clearly can beat Miami.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
By the way, let me correct myself, the game is
in Spain. I don't care, all right, even more so,
I like it even more so now because whatever stupid
home field advantage the Dolphins had, which I'm not going
to be a factor at all. So let's go with
the Commanders plus the points over Miami. You like, in fact,
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your votes will be counted so and.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
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Speaker 4 (24:04):
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the way, leading and we imagine if we had the
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Here He is from Paramunt Sports two and three a
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Speaker 3 (24:33):
Lee, how are you, man?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
I'm okay, pretty good. Just cut off the treadmill and
get a little bit tougher every single year.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, I was gonna tell you last time I saw
you're getting kind of chubby. So I'm glad that you're
jumping on the trail boat by the way. So yeah,
really really proud of you. We're trying to shed that
that baby fat pal. All right, let's get to it.
USC at home at the Coliseum hosting the Iowa hawk guys.
Coming off a hard fought game against the Ducks on Saturday,
Trojans are given six and a half.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
What do you see there at the coliseum?
Speaker 6 (25:06):
A lot of rain is gonna be one hundred percent
chance of rain for this game tomorrow. I loved USC
when the line came out, loved them before I saw
the fordcast, still liked them. King Miller and Wayman Jordan
have combined forever twelve hundred rushing yards ten touchdowns, averaging
between seven point nine and six point five yards per carry.
(25:27):
And what makes this defense different than all other years?
Last year just twenty one sacks. This year they're averaging
almost three sacks per game and an interception per game.
I mean, who knows where Iowa is after that crushing
loss us. He has been great at home five and
oh straight up four and one against the spread. The
only time that they didn't cover was that Michigan State
(25:47):
bomb seventy five yard bomb with two minutes to go
in the game, or else they'd be a perfect five
and oh against the spread. Sometimes you gotta low it
if you want to play it. USC twenty eight to seventeen.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
All right, Oregon got a scare last week and Kinnick,
but they're back home. Taken on Minnesota, but they are
given a big number minus twenty five and a half
for the Duckies.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I think the better line here might be to take
the first half line, but we'll still go with Oregon.
Full game here. Minnesota was off paying attention, but you
know how much can that help them? They just don't
have any guys here they can break a tackle and
go the distance. The only thing maybe giving them a
chance to keep the game down bottom five pace of play,
(26:34):
getting off just fifty seven plays per game. But I
think the Ducks will be just too much. They hit
on big plays even with some of those injuries. On offense, Ducks,
they're forty one, Minnesota thirteen.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Gotcha, So take the Ducks and give the points. Man,
all right, you dub Purdue. Here's the thing. Purdue has
lost sixteen consecutive Big Ten Conference games. The last time
Purdue won a conference game, Pete Carroll was still almost
two months away from being fired by the Seahawks as
(27:09):
their head coach. That's how long it's been since they
won a conference game. Huskies are back home. They're angry
after getting beat by Wisconsin Saturday. They're given sixteen and
a half. What do you think if they lose?
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Are you gonna walk all the way to Purdue? No?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
No, they If they lose this game, I just might
take Monday off.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
To be honest with you, Yeah, okay, all right, we
will deserve But I think they're gonna be fine here.
I mean, they win that game by two three touchdowns
last week if the conditions are decent. Jed Fish, I
think put the hammer down. Looks like most of the
starters will be back on offense. And Purdue they just
can't stop big plays here another Sometimes you got to
(27:52):
want to lay it, you got to play it here.
I think Williams has a big game here at quarterback.
I think Washington wins this game five to ten.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Okay, all right to the NFL.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
One of the two big games in the NFC, this
one coming on Sunday night football, Eagles hosting the Lions.
The Eagles giving up two and a half points.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
So you like that game was ugly last Monday night. Horrible,
But still you go on the road and you win
a game. Ugly on the road is versus a winning
opponent is still a good thing. Eagles scored only ten points.
I think the advantage here is to go against Detroit cornerback,
so I'm expecting the AJ Brown. I think they're going
(28:32):
to pass by him, get him the ball. You can't
single cover this guy here, so he has a big
game here, and I think Dan Campbell gonna be up
against it here with this Philly defensive front now with
Jalen Phillips added from Miami. So I like Philly. Let's
go with Philly twenty seven to twenty gotch Troy all Right.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Game of the Week Ram Seahawks seven and two versus
seven and two. Whoever wins takes control of the nfc WS.
What do you think Rams are now giving three and
a half at home against the Hawks.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
And whoever wins this game of quarterback could be the
early leader, you know for the possible MVP. Sam Darnold
nine point nine yards per past the tenth full yard
better than Drake May who's an eight point nine. And
Seattle's two losses against San Francisco and Tampa Bay lad
with left in two minutes left in that game, I
(29:25):
think the key here is to put the heat on
Stafford thirteen touchdowns, no interceptions, last three games. He's only
been sacked three times in three games Seattle thirty two
sacks and nine games they get three or more sacks.
I predict they win the game forever Seattle. Since the
(29:46):
Rams thirty to twenty six.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I love it all right.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
In your game of the week Cardinals and San Francisco
in Glendale.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
As usual. You got sutting up your sleeve, don't you, Lee.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
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Speaker 4 (30:34):
All right, Lee, you're the man, great stuff. We appreciate
this and we will talk in a week. My friends,
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Okay, okay, all right, Lee Sterling.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
He likes the Trojans to cover against Iowa, he likes
Oregon minus the points against Minnesota at augsin Huskies, barry
Purdue and cover Eagles cover against the Lions. And he
likes the Seahawks, plus the points the three and a
half against the Rams. By the way, just doing some
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There you go, well, one hundred dollars pays twenty two
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Speaker 3 (31:23):
What the hell?
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Why not throw a Benjamin at it and close your
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