November 4, 2024 • 36 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain react to the Seahawks loss to the Rams on Sunday, then chat with Huskies quarterback Will Rogers about Washington’s win over USC, share their Fact or Fiction pick, then listen and react to Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 3 (00:22):
All right, here we go from the Emerald quick because
now our home away from home during the football season.
I do find it's awfully symbolic that we're here next
to a bar. After the Seahawks lost to the Rams
in overtime yesterdays, we have.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
To start drinking, all right?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Oh you speak for yourself? Pal?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Oh my god, are you kidding me? I got to
hear about just a couple minutes before you, which is
all you really need, to be honest with you. We're
at the Emeral, Queen gonna be hanging out all night
long for the Buccaneers and Chiefs. At five point fifteen,
Will Rogers will join us from the Huskies. He's gonna
come on at three twenty eight today. I guess they
have some meeting with the mayor talk about voting. At
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four o'clock this afternoon before election tomorrow. Okay, Will's gonna
hop on with us at three twenty eight. We're gonna
hear a little bit from Mike McDonald, a little bit
from Geno Smith, get some of your phone calls, get textamonials,
get fun with audio, and then get to the game
with the Chiefs and Buccaneers coming up at five fifteen.
So another one of those days where I mean, my god,
I don't even know where to start. Right, Jackson's been
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hanging out with Ian, so you've given your take on
a lot of this stuff already, but the afternoon crowd
is dying to know what Jackson Feltz thinks about certain
issues pertaining to the Seahawks. We're all waiting to hear
Dick's take on this, and I guess I just don't
even know where to start besides the same spot that
we've been starting for the last maybe couple weeks with
this team. The offensive line's bad. They're just not good.
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And I just wonder, honestly, how much this is affecting
everything the Seahawks do, Dick, including the play of the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, I don't think you can lay at the feet
of one area.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
This is a colossal failure by everybody that has anything
to do, particularly with this offense. And it's been the
defense as well past It wasn't really the defense in
this game. I thought the defense was fantastic. I mean
you think about it, how many points of the defense
give up in regulation?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Thirteen? Yep, thirteen points, right, I mean you.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Give thirteen points in an NFL game, in a sixty
minute NFL game, I think that is absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So I'm gonna take them off the hook at least
for one week.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
But I echo with Greg Bell tweeted at two twenty
two yesterday afternoon. He tweeted five words, truth is they
look unprepared, right, That was his tweet at two twenty two.
And so, yeah, the offensive line is terrible, but Gino
Smith should not, under any circumstances be let off the
hook for three and what should have been four interceptions
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in that football game, many of them during crunch time,
one of them returned for a touchdown, and two of
them where he had all the time in the world
to throw the football. So you cannot put those on
the feet of the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
The third one, I debate you on the on the
pit going to the tight end. We had a guy
in his face, but we can. I mean, look, in
general terms, I agree with you. I mean, Gino played
terrible yesterday. I mean, nobody's gonna deny that Gino had
a bad game, right, I mean, you got to be
an idiot to not think that Gino had a bad game.
I do think that we live in a world now,
and I did this myself on Twitter, so I'm just
as responsible as anybody. We live in a world now
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where we got to pick one thing to blame and
one thing only and just kind of make that our thing.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
And I don't think that's the case with the Seahawks.
I think you're exactly right.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It was a colossal meltdown on every side of the
ball on offense, and I'll be honest with you, I
thought on defense too. I mean, look, I get your
point about giving up thirteen points, but my god, Dick,
the third quarter, the Rams just shoved the ball right
down our throat. They had ten points in the third quarter.
The Rams ran How many plays did they run?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
God?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I had this written down somewhere. It was twenty three
to four plays in the third court. They just could
not get off the field. While the Rams were taking
the lead back, and look, I think if you look
at it from a perspective of, hey, would you have
taken thirteen points a lot by the defensive regulation. Of course,
absolutely nobody ever turned that down because they're not counting
on a pick six and the game going overtime. But
I think there were moments in that game where the
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defense could have done more and they did. For me
on the blame pie, they're down here. It's the offense
for sure. For yesterday's game, it's the head coach, it's
the quarterback, it's the play calling. I mean, look the
fourth down run that they ran at the end of overtime,
and they had two cracks right at one yard and
they went behind Charles Cross and Lake and Tomlinson, who
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there's been a lot of change to the Seahawk offensive line.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
The two guys that have played the most are the
guys on the.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Left hand side with Lake and Thompson and Charles Cross,
and they just could not get her done. I think
on the the was it the second play or the
first play where they had two blockers lined up in
the backfield with Kenny Walker and one of them was
Zach Sharbonnay. Otherwise Russell. I believe the second one or
was second place. Okay, okay, yes, you know what, honestly
that that may have been earlier in the game. I've
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got all this stuff in my brain.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I got two football games in my brain. I don't
just watched a game.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, I don't have any problem. No, it was definitely
the Seahawk game, for sure, the game. I don't have
any problem with the decision to go for it whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
None. I think that was absolutely the right call.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I think you make that call even before third down,
third and one, Hey, we're gonna go for this twice.
Some people, including Hugh have said, just sneak the damn thing,
and I could.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I could see that for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
But I also think that if we're gonna sit here
and just say that we don't want to run behind
a first round left tackle and a veteran like Lincoln
Tomlinson with a running back and a blocking back. If
we don't have the confidence for the Hawks to pull
that off, then they're in trouble. They just are. They're
in trouble if we can't do that. And look, if
you want to tell me, Dick that they should have
snucked the ball, I'll agree with you. I'll give you
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that totally, but that is a reflection of a lack
of confidence that you have, either consciously or subconsciously in
this offensive line.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
And Jackson, you said it today on Ian show that
you and your dad said, Hey, you can't get the
yard on two plays, that's.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
On you, that's your fault.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I mean, you ran behind a first round tackle, a
freaking sixty year old veteran with one of the great
backs in the NFL, on a blocking back and you
couldn't get twelve inches.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I mean two plays.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
You don't deserve to win if you can't get that yard,
especially seeing is how ken Walker's probably the I would say,
the best offensive player on your field that morning. Players,
you're running behind your best offensive lineman. If you can't
get that one yard, okay, rams, good on you go win.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Analytics says go for it. I was for going for
it there. They said there was a fourteen percent better
chance if you win the game if you go for
it versus versus kicking. But yeah, I was. I was
screaming at the top of my lungs. I'm third and
one QB sneak.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It twice QB sneak it twice. If you don't get
it the first time, do it the second time. And
that was just so frustrating to watch.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
What else was frustrating as well is when you go
shotgun on third and short and fourth and short.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And that was early on in the game.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
And I have never understood that maybe that's something Hugh
says is a good idea. I snapped it back four
and a half yards to get six inches it. I
just don't understand that. But the one play call I
was also yelling from the stands was I think you
gotta go for two at the end of the game.
You gotta you are you in as a miracle basically
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that you're even in this position. You were dead to
right thirty seconds before you score the touchdown. Get in,
get out, go for two and get out of that
football game.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I absolutely want them to do.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
So if they go for two and don't get it
and lose the game, you're flying with.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yes, I would, I was yelling at so I would
have said, hey, I'd have to swallow it. I would
have had to swallow it because I was telling everybody
around me, I'd just go for two, get it, get out.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Of it.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, I thought that would have been. Yeah, I don't agree. Yeah,
I think I think I gotta play like that. You
can't win the game, but you can lose the game.
And I don't want to lose the game. I mean,
you know, I want to be able to go to overtime.
I mean the coin flip is obviously fifty to fifty.
Whether you get the ball, obviously you should have scored
a touchdown probably at least gotten a three.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I just didn't have confidence on my offense.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
No, I get it. I look, I mean I think
that something like that. Though, if we're sitting here in
what would this be? This would be week nine of
the NFL season, Is that right? I mean, the first
Sunday in November and we're already sitting here saying, hey,
when we're at home and the cardinal rule, I mean,
if you want to just you know, go on the road,
go on the road home, tie the game. Get the
road is home for us because Navra win that well.
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And mean, look now they're fifteen and sixteen in their
last thirty one games at home, and.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
They've lost four and twenty sauce days.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
That's right, and they are under five hundred since COVID ended.
So you know, I mean, like we said last week,
the mistique of Loomenfield's gone.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
It's gone. It is totally one hundred percent gone.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
It means nothing got the quarterback, you know, going on
the air with the media apologizing for the way he played.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
The team was getting booed.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
They were getting hammered by the by the home crowd
yesterday eleven fourteen to go, second quarter, I wrote it
down is when the boos started coming down after the
batsnap that made it third and thirty three and the
fans have just had enough. So it's incredible and it's also,
you know, completely disheartening to see this football team that
was so good at home in front of these fans
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just get completely shoved around by people and not be
ready to go and look the offense. I mean, you
want to say Geno, fine, you want to see the
offensive line.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Fine.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
The problem for me that I have is there are
moments where like the light bulb is starting to go on, right,
it's just and it just fizzles out.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
For example, from the three point thirty one mark of
the second quarter of the ten to fifty nine mark,
dick of the fourth quarter, so we're talking roughly twenty
minutes of clock time. The Seahawks had four drives. One
of them is the drive where they had the sack,
the false start, and the holding penalty on three straight plays,
and they were just done, like that drive was dead
on arrival after all that happened. The other three drives,
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they had one hundred and ninety three yards of offense,
fourteen points, and got to the Rams six yard line
before Chino threw the pick six. I mean, they're moving
the ball and they're mixing it up. They're running it,
they're throwing it. They're getting guys that I'm white, nobody's
even heard of him for guys believe in the block
(10:00):
right totally. I mean, you're you're moving the ball without
your best player in DK Metcalf, at least your best
pass catcher. You're getting guys involved that had never been
involved with the game. What some people are looking up
who the hell these guys are? And then they get
down to it and they just turn the ball over.
And so I don't know if it's a problem between
the offensive line and Geno Smith and the symmetry, there
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a problem between Geno Smith and Ryan Grubb and the
symmetry there a confidence problem for him. I have no
idea what's going on. Obviously, we know that red zone
has not been kind of Geno Smith for the last
couple of years, right, It's not been great for him whatsoever.
The numbers are actually pretty bad for Gino Smith. And
I don't know if that's a offensive line problem. Don't
know if it's just a Geno decision problem. You know,
(10:44):
I saw this tweet from Danny O'Neill where they've run
like eleven plays in the red zone on the ground
and they've gone nowhere.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
They just can't run the ball inside the red zone.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Compared that to what Jonah Coleman did Saturday in the
red zone, and it's a complete one to eighty from what.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
They're not giving the ball when they're running ball, at
least they're not giving it to the other team like
they're doing throwing the ball.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Then you're just then you're giving up. Then you're waving
the white flag.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I mean, I'd rather score three than zero. They're done,
minus seven, then they're done. Then the sea we just
score zero or minus seven, Okay, then we should start
talking draft. Honestly, Jackson, if we're gonna get to the
ten yard line and just say we are so scared
to throw the ball because we don't want our quarterback
to cough it up. Then we should start talking draft
right now.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
I mean, it's sort of it sort of goes to
the point, if you can't get a yard you might
as well lose. If we're at that point we just
camp as inside of ten, we might as well just
give off.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Here's here are here are huge stats from the Morning
show today. All right, there are forty five quarterbacks since
the beginning of last season, so beginning of twenty twenty three,
we're talking a year and a half football, right there
are forty five quarterbacks with a two hundred attempts. Those
are the ones he's counting in this this stat all right,
red zone ranking for Gino Smith out of forty five quarterbacks,
passer rating forty second out of forty five, success rate
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thirty sixth out of forty five, touchdown to interception ratio
thirty ninth out of forty five, and completion percentage forty
second to forty five. You can't you can basically not
find a worse red zone quarterback in the last year
and a half in the NFL than Geno Smith, and
the numbers back it up across them.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And why is that? Is it because of him? Is
because of the offensive line? Is it because of play calling?
Is it because of their one dimensional? Is there more
context there with numbers like that? Or is it just simple?
Let's not overthink it. Geno sucks in the red zone.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I think the second part I holds much more water. Okay,
I think what's the second part?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I forgot where you said, you know, just can't get
back the first part.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
The first part is relevant. All those things contribute to it.
But if you're just bad across the board, you can
only blame so much on your coach. You can only
blame so much on your offensive line. It's on you, man.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Yeah, I don't know, man.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I mean, I have no problem criticizing Geno for yesterday's game.
I have no problem giving gen know a bunch of
flowers for the way he played against Atlanta, and I
have no problem getting after Gino for the way he
played against Buffalo. But I also think that this has
just been cascading ever since they got home from that
trip against Atlanta. I mean, what the hell is Connor
Williams doing honestly, like stop enough, like this is just
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getting stupid. Now, one this is right, but the second
one wasn't. And we had one last week where he
steps on the center. Maybe that's on Geno, maybe it's
on Connor Williams. There definitely was a snap of the
Buffalo game over Gino's head from Connor Williams. This is
two times now in two weeks where Connor Williams has
snapped the ball over Gino Smith's head.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Guys, guys, don't worry. Gino Smith says in his postgame
press conference that Connor Williams is doing a quote phenomenal job,
So don't worry.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
He's not gonna rip his own guys. Yeah, look, he's
not gonna rip his zone.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
To say he's come on, but to say he's doing
a phenomenal job, we have eyes.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
He's being a leader. Okay, that's what he's being. He's
being a fricking leader. And I appreciate that. I don't
care how dumb things look. I don't care how bad
things are. To not throw a guy under a bus
and just take responsibility. Pete Carroll did the same damn
thing when he was the head coach of the Seahawks.
How many times did you hear Pete Carroll rip somebody?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Never?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
It was always his fault. Even if we knew it
wasn't his fault, he said it was his fault.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
It just comes off all he's treating us like idiots.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Well, yeah, I don't know, man, Because Jackson, I think
the most important thing that Gino Smith has to do
right now is make sure he doesn't lose a locker room.
And if he starts blaming players, that's that's a way
to lose a lot.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
You know, to say blame you just say, yeah, we're
just working at it. We have to get better on offense.
You got to get better as an offensive line. Better
For me, that's just to say he's a phenomenal job.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I mean, if that bothers you, then that's great. I mean,
I mean, I get it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I just think he's being a leader, right and the
story we can disagree, that's fine. But I just think
that this is a problem with this football team that
has been a problem for a long time. Right, whether
it's Russell Wilson or whether it's Geno Smith or somebody else,
they don't have elite offensive lines in Seattle, they just don't, right,
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And whether it's a John Schneider thing or a Pete
Carroll thing, or let's ignore certain positions, or we don't
want to know what the hell we're doing. I mean,
Christian Haynes was a third round draft pick, was supposed
to be the start at right guard. He wasn't even
active yesterday, right, And the guys they end up signing
get banged up, they get hurt. Charles Cross, I think,
has has gone backwards this year in a lot of
ways as the left tackle for the Seahawks. So I
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think that everybody who's pointing out coaching and Gino and
the talent and the players and they're not executing and
blah blah blah, I think all of that is totally fair,
and I could agree with all of it. But I
think that the one thing that we really haven't looked
at and we haven't talked about enough on this show.
And we haven't talked about it because the guy has
been here for a long time and they typically win
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a lot of games. As John Schneider, it's his job
to build a line on he's filmed.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
He can't do it.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
He has absolutely got enough in the offensive line department.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
But we have to make a decision here. This isn't
a decision to be made a year and a half
for now. This is a decision that needs to be
made three months from now on whether when g you know,
Smith walks into John Schneider's door and say I want
a new contract.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Right now he's getting one.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
This is a decision that needs to be made. This
is not a long term decision.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And every time he and I've always said, you know,
I take I make, you know, very very small adjustments
to my opinions through each game. But yesterday, you know,
you've seen the tectonic plates. I'm gonna use a Hue analogy.
You've seen those tectonic plates, and.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
What happens They push against each other and push again,
and every once in a while is that there's an
earthquake where they move a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yesterday for me was a tectonic shift. Is Geno Smith
for all right? So we want to want to bench him? No,
if I lose to San Francisco he doesn't play well,
you want to bench him. You want to see Sam Holt.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
I think we know what we have in Sam Howe,
which is probably about the same or worse than we
have in Gino Smith.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I think this season for me, you're gonna be four
and six.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You hold no tie breakers, your division records bad, your
your confidence records.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Bad, and it's all bad.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I mean, I don't think I bench him next, you know,
after the next game. But aid, do you want to
see what you have in Sam Howell and b you
really start that. You have to start to figure out
what you want to do in twenty twenty five and beyond,
because right now the playoffs are slip slip, sliding away
in twenty twenty Well, you had your shot yesterday and
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you blew it.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I think Gino blew it well. I think the offensive
line blew it too. I think John Schneider blew it too.
I just don't want to put all this at the
at the hands of Geno, and I know that you do,
and I get that, and that's fair.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You ever right to your opinion. I disagree with that.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
The quarterback means much more. And when he makes plays
like that, especially ones when he have tests plenty of
time and he stares down guys and throws right to them.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, well, when he's under pressure the entire day. Sometimes
those stupid mistakes are going to happen. I mean he
was under pressure like sixty percent of the time yesterday.
And look, if it takes a more, maybe a better
quarterback to handle this, I don't know who that guy is.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I gets the ball out of his hands, I don't
know who it is.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Well, I mean, look, Sam Howe led the league in
picks last year.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yes, what I'm saying, I'm not saying Sam you don't like.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
If you don't like watching Geno's thrown receptions, you're definitely
not gonna like Sam Howe. So I don't think i'd
bench him under any real circumstances at all. I would
just play the guy the entire year and see what happens.
But I also think that the original perspective on this
season was, Hey, if Gino Smith, we're gonna break here
in a second. If Geno Smith is playing for a contract,
he's not playing for a long deal. He's playing for
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maybe a two year extension. Right, Yes, so you were
either way, You're looking for the guy in three, four,
five years from now. None of that has to change,
just like none of it had to change when they
acquired Sam Howe from Washington. It never had to change.
They always could have drafted a quarterback. They always could
have moved up to get somebody, but they didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So nothing's different going into the offseason.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
The Seahawks still need a long term answer at the
quarterback position. No matter what Geno does the rest of
the year, we're gonna break. Will Rogers is gonna join
us after it went over USC Next on ninety three
to three.
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Speaker 2 (19:20):
Husky's up by five snapped to Miller.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Moss drops back to pass backpedals of the twenty five chase.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Clod flutters the ball up and leave. It's in complete.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
It's in complete, I say, Award Head Aliance Holtz Klaub
get after the quarterback and the Husky defense comes up
with the stop and eleven seconds to go.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
All right, normally at four point thirty, but we're going
early today because Will's got a team meeting to get
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Speaker 4 (19:54):
Will, how are you? Man? What's going on?
Speaker 10 (19:57):
How's it going?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I'll do all right?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Good?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Better now after that went over USC? So you're not
You're not as old as we are man, sitting here
on the West coast. Beating UC is always a fun
thing for us, is you know, a long time pack
ten packed twelve guys. But when Lance Holtsklaw on his
only snap of the game, by the way, whips Mason Murphy,
who's the right tackle for USC, gets into Miller Moss's
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face and forces that deflection, what's the reaction of the sideline?
What's your reaction when you guys won that game? After
that big defensive stand.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Oh, I was going crazy. I wish somebody could find
a video of me or something when that play was
going home. But I don't know. I know I jumped
up in the air like three or four times and
was just really excited and you know, just really stoked
for the guys, especially the defense to get a huge
stop there.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Well on the defense was phenomenal and soft. He mentioned
beating USC. It's now three times in a row. U
dub has not beaten USC three times in a row
since the glory days of the early nineties. And you
know there's another streak that's going on as well at
night seen straight at Husky Stadium. How much is that,
if at all, talked about in your locker room.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
I mean a little bit here and there.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
You know, I think.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
I think guys are just focused on one week at
a time, though, you know, it's obviously something that people
know about, and it's something you know, from what I've seen.
You know, obviously we haven't only been here a year,
but it's something that I've seen people take a great,
great deal of pride in, you know, just winning at home,
winning in front of these great fans, and you know,
obviously the fans are terrific Saturday night. So anytime we
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can play play anybody here, we feel good about our chances.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
So yeah, yeah, well, Will Rodgers is with us.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I got to ask you about number twelve man and
Denzel Boston, another big day for him, and we're sitting
there in the press box watching just crosser after crosser
after crosser at Phil Crosser and just slicing USC's defense
up with that route. What is it about that route
and that receiver and your connection with him that's working
so well, you think?
Speaker 10 (22:01):
I mean, it's honestly just reps, you know, I mean,
he's he's the first receiver I threw too when I
got here, you know, So it's it's a ton of
reps since you know, last January, just getting to know
each other, getting to be familiar with how he runs
his routes. He's extremely talented, he's he's a big physical
you know, but they're still still room to grow, in
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my opinion. You know, there's some things that we could
do better. I missed him on a couple of throws,
so there's some things that clean up, for sure. But
I think he's done a great job of just preparing
week in and week out, and he's obviously pretty pretty
electrifying with the ball in his hands, and the way
he gets opened.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Number is unbelievable, seventy one point one percent. You're just
your completion percentage, right, now. I think it was as
high as seventy three at one point during the game
for the season. Break it down for us, I mean,
how much of it is accuracy? How much of it
is play calling, you know, running the right plays in
order for you to be that accurate. How much is
just your decision making and the fact that you've been
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playing college quarterback for a half a decade.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
I mean, I think it's a little bit of everything,
you know. I mean, you're making me feel old right there,
but it's a little bit of everything.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
You know.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
It's a credit to coach and the way he calls
plays and things like that. It's a credit to the
offensive line and then the receivers of course for you know,
bringing down some tough catches at times. You know, I've
obviously played played football for a little while now, but
I think it all just comes down to just knowing
the system, know what we're trying to do on offense,
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knowing the play college purpose wise, coach calling this play, yeah,
and then just trying to do my job playing and
play out. You know, things are gonna happen, you know,
tip balls, some things like that that you can't control,
but you should have to have ability just to play
the next play and keep on rolling.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Well, Will Rogers again is with us.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
If you win Saturday against Penn State, you're eligible for
a ball game, which I'll be honest with you, man,
typically isn't celebrated much around here because the standards are
a lot higher than that. But the context of having
you know, half a new roster flipping everything over, is
there room for you to celebrate something like that if
you can get to win number six and at minimum
become ball eligible.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
Yeah, I mean I think anytime you can come ball eligible,
it's a great deal. I mean, obviously we feel like
we should have been for a couple of weeks now,
but you know, he knows what it is. Our record
is what it is, you know. I think it is
something we talked about in the locker room this week
is you know, you can't go back, you can't go
back to two months ago and change them things. But
we just have to focus on now and we obviously
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have a big task ahead this week, so we have
to have a great week of practice and that's where
it all starts this week.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yeah, well, let me ask you about that, because there's
this like new tradition, Will as you know of guys
skipping out on bowl games, right for a lot of reasons.
Christian McCaffrey started this, like six seven years ago whatever,
he skipped the Sun Bowl for Stanford. If the Huskies
get to a ball game, can we count on you
playing in that thing?
Speaker 10 (24:58):
Yeah, for sure, I'll be there. Uh, that's not really
how I was. And everybody's got their own reasons for
not playing a bowl game, for sure, and I respect
those reasons, and I respect people, you know, chasing their
dreams and you know, preparing for the NFL and things
like that. But you know, that's just not really who
I am as a person. And you know, I'm not
the type of guy just to bail on on on
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my teammates with one game left.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So that's sure, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
We love to hear that Will Rodgers is joining us.
Will I I I tweeted out today. Has there been
a bigger badass this century on the Husky football team
than Carson Brunner. I'm gonna twist the question a little
bit to you and say, where does Carson Bruner rank
as far as the best leaders and badasses you've ever
played with in college football?
Speaker 10 (25:44):
I mean, he's up there for sure. You know, I've
I've played with a lot of a lot of really
good just football players. You know, that's a great way
to describe him, is that he's just a football player,
you know, and he's not the biggest, he's not the
fastest or the strongest or anything like that. But you
know you can tell Saturday, Uh, he can really turn
it on and flip that switch where he's just you know,
playing football at a really, really high level. So I'm
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really really proud of him. I'm excited to excited to
see where he goes these next you know, three or
four weeks at the end of the season, and I
hope he can kill keep building on the confidence that
he had from last game.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
So yeah, he's the man for sure. I love it.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Hey, just give us a quick thought going to Penn State.
Haven't won a game away from Husky Stadium.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
All year long.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
What do you guys need to do preparation wise, protocol
wise to get off the schneid and win a road
game for the first time this year.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
Yeah, it's a it's a huge challenge obviously. I mean
it's the white out, it's an eight o'clock kickoff on
Eastern tom So it's gonna be a huge challenge. You know,
it's in front of one hundred and ten thousand or
whatever it is. So honestly, just worry about it one
day at a time, man, you know. Just worry about
practice tomorrow, worry about our meetings tonight tomorrow. So just
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just locking in on the small things, you know. So
if we can just prepare good this week during the
week and then transfer that over to the fild Saturday,
I feel good about.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
It all right, man, go get I'm hoping talking Monday
about it.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Win over Penn State number six team of the country,
best of luckown.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
We'll talk Monday.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
Man.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Appreciate it, dude, Yes, sir, y'all have a good day.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Got it.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Will Rogers with us courtesy. I'm out like futures. We're
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Speaker 3 (27:55):
I think we're starting to shift to like number one
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Speaker 2 (28:07):
Year reloading, yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
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Speaker 4 (28:54):
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Speaker 5 (28:54):
I think the only way Penn State gets to you know,
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Huskies will on the ground in the second half, kind
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Speaker 2 (29:06):
If that and that's all they can do is probably
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And I think you know, the Huskies, you know, I
don't know how how well they're gonna be able to
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I hope I'm wrong, but uh, you know it's gonna be.
It's gonna be tough for the Dogs to get to twenty.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Four twenty one in that game, no doubt.
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Speaker 8 (29:56):
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Speaker 4 (30:01):
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Speaker 3 (30:06):
Wow, alright, We're gonna let you decide who is at fault,
who should get the finger a blame, the softy dick
and Jackson pointy, crooked, hairy, nasty finger a blame for
what happened yesterday during the Seahawk game. That whole thing
just sounded disgusting. By the way, at four o'clock, we'll
let you just take over the show because that means
less of us talking, which is good for everyone. Right now, though,
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it's time for a little fun with audio slash. Hey
did you hear that? We're gonna get to more thoughts
on the Seahawk game coming up in the four o'clock
hour four twenty eight segment as well. This is me,
by the way, looking for the proper sound effects. Here
we go, Hey, Dick, did you happen.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
To hear that? What was that?
Speaker 9 (30:45):
Dave?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Dick? What do you say we start?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
In the National Football League, Tom Brady, as the part
owner of the LA Raiders, is not allowed to criticize officials.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
You know that, right? It works for Fox.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
It was on the Fox Sports call the Lions Packers
yesterday and tiptoed the line of criticism when Lions safety
Brian Branch was ejected for an illegal hit.
Speaker 12 (31:08):
The officials called the foul, they can decide to eject.
This happened so late, this had to come from New York.
They're looking at it. They decided. I don't love that.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Call at all.
Speaker 11 (31:21):
I mean, obviously it's a penalty, But to me, that
has to be serious intent in.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
A game like this. See, I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
After hearing that, I think he went further than I
thought he was gonna go. I mean him actually saying
he didn't like the call, and then could that be
construed as criticism?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I have no idea what the nfls I have no
idea what the NFL's version of criticism is, Dick.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
But he went further and I thought he was gonna go.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
If Tom Brady can't do that right on the air, yes,
then how can he call a game?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I mean that is part of being color commentator.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
You have to be able to give your opinions on everything,
including the officials decision.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I'll tell you what. I'll say it again. I've said
it before.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
The Jagoa White Sox totally get it because they stink
and they let their post names Joe roast everybody love
every night. Can you imagine if John Stanton and Chris
Larsen and Kevin Martinez picked up the bat phone to
Bellevue and called Brad, Adam and Angie and said, hey,
just go for it.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Let us have it. Don't even act like your partners.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
They have watched, they have their former manager.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
How about us having lou doing?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Oh I want they stuck. We would watch, we watched,
watch every post.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
They'd get better ratings. So what are they in?
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Are they in the are the TV business? Or are
they in the making themselves feel good business? Uh? Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear where are we going next.
How about more NFL Bears were getting blown out twenty
nine to nine by the Cardinals yesterday and the clock
ticked under two minutes, Caleb Williams was still in the
game for Chicago. On the CBS broadcast, analyst Charles Davis
was critical of Bears head coach Matt Eberflus keeping his
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rookie quarterback in the game, and then the very next play,
william suffered an ankle injury.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
William's still in the ballgame at this stage, and I
know he is. You know you mentioned it, how uber
competitive he is. He probably doesn't want to come out.
I don't know that I would continue to have him
in at this stage. I'm not sure how many more
lessons there are for arms at.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
This ball game.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I want that kid ready to go for next week. Nine,
to go third and seven for the Bears.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Just pop up time. Here Williams weaving around nearly the
ball slept out of there.
Speaker 8 (33:30):
See Williams slowed a get up after the two yard
game and a little bit of a limp.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
I don't think there's any toughness to prove here.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
And now he's grabbing at the back of his leg
as a Quara was there.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I'm sorry, this just does not make sense to me.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
How this is your rookie quarterback, that's the face of
your franchise.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
I don't think he should have been out there for
the two minutes. It's dumb. It's just dumb.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I mean, sometimes there's more context there, but I was
watching some of that too. It's just stupid, man, I mean,
why would you have him in there when the game
you're down by twenty points with two minutes.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
To gets over. Game is over.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
That was the point having the guy out there. He
should he should be ripped. And I guarantee our guys
in Chicago were going after.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
The Shane Waldern experience has been fabulous in Chicago. And
Matty ebra Flucie, here's a little trivia question for you boys.
Matt eber Flues has coached eighteen Sunday road games as
the head coach of the Chicago Bears. Right, how many wins?
Two and sixteen?
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Jackson, I mean four wins, zero and eighteen.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
That's incredible.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
He is oh and eighteen on Sundays on the road
as head coach of the Bears.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
He's getting fired. Did you happen to hear that let's
do three or four pick one Jackson three. Last week,
the SEC outlined new punishments, including fines and suspensions for teams, players,
and coaches being caught faking injuries in college football like
Chris Hudson did with Oregon two years ago and you
missed Turk Ferguson last year. In Week six, Tim Tebow
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then joined College Game Day on Saturday and talked about
the issue of players making injuries.
Speaker 11 (35:04):
I'm a soccer fan. I love that we're bringing teams
here to Jacksonville. I think soccer is a great sport.
But we don't want to turn football into soccer. Okay,
there is a difference, and I don't think that we
should just be tap, Oh my gosh, I'm gonna go
fall down.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
No, no, no.
Speaker 11 (35:18):
That works in another sport and it's the biggest sport
in the world. But we're celebrating college football right now,
and college football is different game than soccer.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Both are amazing.
Speaker 11 (35:28):
Let's keep football as football and let's not do that.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Well.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
They did it twice in two years against the Huskies
and got away with it both times. They lost both
those games, and for me, the straw that started to
break the back is when Kirk Kirk Street was on
the broadcast for ABC that day, going, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Is it your left leg? Is he your right?
Speaker 9 (35:45):
Ley?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Cold? Which one is it?
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Dude? And that's Tash lu POI Toash.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Lupoy was doing the same thing when he was at
UDB and CAL And I gotta tell you, man, you're
a competitor. You played sports. I played sports, Jackson, you know,
all of us played sports back.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
In the day.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
How big of a tool do you have to be
to consciously fake an injury and go down to stop
the clock?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I mean, what a d bag move that. I can't
even think right.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I can't even think about doing that now.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
If my coach demanded it of me, I guess I
would have to.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
If you're a college player, I guess you got the
guts to say no.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
That good for you. But you're totally right, man, I mean,
you might have to do whatever the coach is asking for.
But it's just a it's just a d bag move. Yes,
it's a total d bag move by these guys to
do that. I'm glad they're jumping on this. All right,
We're gonna break who's to blame for the Seahawks struggles yesterday,
We'll get a bunch of calls.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
We're gonna go watch seven calls. Is that right, People's court?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
I watch seven calls at two age six, ninety five,
ninety five or eight hundred and eight to nine oh
nine five.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Oh, we're gonna hear a little bit.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Gino Smith is gonna say he's sorry, and then you're
gonna tell us who's to blame for the Seahawk offensive problem.
Is it a coaching issue? Is it a quarterback issue?
Is it an offensive line issue? Is it something else?
We're a missing issue.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
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All right, here we go from the Emerald quick because
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I do find it's awfully symbolic that we're here next
to a bar. After the Seahawks lost to the Rams
in overtime yesterdays, we have.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
To start drinking, all right?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Oh you speak for yourself? Pal?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Oh my god, are you kidding me? I got to
hear about just a couple minutes before you, which is
all you really need, to be honest with you. We're
at the Emeral, Queen gonna be hanging out all night
long for the Buccaneers and Chiefs. At five point fifteen,
Will Rogers will join us from the Huskies. He's gonna
come on at three twenty eight today. I guess they
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hop on with us at three twenty eight. We're gonna
hear a little bit from Mike McDonald, a little bit
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get fun with audio, and then get to the game
with the Chiefs and Buccaneers coming up at five fifteen.
So another one of those days where I mean, my god,
I don't even know where to start. Right, Jackson's been
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hanging out with Ian, so you've given your take on
a lot of this stuff already, but the afternoon crowd
is dying to know what Jackson Feltz thinks about certain
issues pertaining to the Seahawks. We're all waiting to hear
Dick's take on this, and I guess I just don't
even know where to start besides the same spot that
we've been starting for the last maybe couple weeks with
this team. The offensive line's bad. They're just not good.
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And I just wonder, honestly, how much this is affecting
everything the Seahawks do, Dick, including the play of the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, I don't think you can lay at the feet
of one area.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
This is a colossal failure by everybody that has anything
to do, particularly with this offense. And it's been the
defense as well past It wasn't really the defense in
this game. I thought the defense was fantastic. I mean
you think about it, how many points of the defense
give up in regulation?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Thirteen? Yep, thirteen points, right, I mean you.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Give thirteen points in an NFL game, in a sixty
minute NFL game, I think that is absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So I'm gonna take them off the hook at least
for one week.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
But I echo with Greg Bell tweeted at two twenty
two yesterday afternoon. He tweeted five words, truth is they
look unprepared, right, That was his tweet at two twenty two.
And so, yeah, the offensive line is terrible, but Gino
Smith should not, under any circumstances be let off the
hook for three and what should have been four interceptions
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in that football game, many of them during crunch time,
one of them returned for a touchdown, and two of
them where he had all the time in the world
to throw the football. So you cannot put those on
the feet of the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
The third one, I debate you on the on the
pit going to the tight end. We had a guy
in his face, but we can. I mean, look, in
general terms, I agree with you. I mean, Gino played
terrible yesterday. I mean, nobody's gonna deny that Gino had
a bad game, right, I mean, you got to be
an idiot to not think that Gino had a bad game.
I do think that we live in a world now,
and I did this myself on Twitter, so I'm just
as responsible as anybody. We live in a world now
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where we got to pick one thing to blame and
one thing only and just kind of make that our thing.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
And I don't think that's the case with the Seahawks.
I think you're exactly right.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It was a colossal meltdown on every side of the
ball on offense, and I'll be honest with you, I
thought on defense too. I mean, look, I get your
point about giving up thirteen points, but my god, Dick,
the third quarter, the Rams just shoved the ball right
down our throat. They had ten points in the third quarter.
The Rams ran How many plays did they run?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
God?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I had this written down somewhere. It was twenty three
to four plays in the third court. They just could
not get off the field. While the Rams were taking
the lead back, and look, I think if you look
at it from a perspective of, hey, would you have
taken thirteen points a lot by the defensive regulation. Of course,
absolutely nobody ever turned that down because they're not counting
on a pick six and the game going overtime. But
I think there were moments in that game where the
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defense could have done more and they did. For me
on the blame pie, they're down here. It's the offense
for sure. For yesterday's game, it's the head coach, it's
the quarterback, it's the play calling. I mean, look the
fourth down run that they ran at the end of overtime,
and they had two cracks right at one yard and
they went behind Charles Cross and Lake and Tomlinson, who
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there's been a lot of change to the Seahawk offensive line.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
The two guys that have played the most are the
guys on the.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Left hand side with Lake and Thompson and Charles Cross,
and they just could not get her done. I think
on the the was it the second play or the
first play where they had two blockers lined up in
the backfield with Kenny Walker and one of them was
Zach Sharbonnay. Otherwise Russell. I believe the second one or
was second place. Okay, okay, yes, you know what, honestly
that that may have been earlier in the game. I've
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got all this stuff in my brain.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I got two football games in my brain. I don't
just watched a game.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, I don't have any problem. No, it was definitely
the Seahawk game, for sure, the game. I don't have
any problem with the decision to go for it whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
None. I think that was absolutely the right call.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I think you make that call even before third down,
third and one, Hey, we're gonna go for this twice.
Some people, including Hugh have said, just sneak the damn thing,
and I could.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I could see that for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
But I also think that if we're gonna sit here
and just say that we don't want to run behind
a first round left tackle and a veteran like Lincoln
Tomlinson with a running back and a blocking back. If
we don't have the confidence for the Hawks to pull
that off, then they're in trouble. They just are. They're
in trouble if we can't do that. And look, if
you want to tell me, Dick that they should have
snucked the ball, I'll agree with you. I'll give you
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that totally, but that is a reflection of a lack
of confidence that you have, either consciously or subconsciously in
this offensive line.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
And Jackson, you said it today on Ian show that
you and your dad said, Hey, you can't get the
yard on two plays, that's.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
On you, that's your fault.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I mean, you ran behind a first round tackle, a
freaking sixty year old veteran with one of the great
backs in the NFL, on a blocking back and you
couldn't get twelve inches.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I mean two plays.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
You don't deserve to win if you can't get that yard,
especially seeing is how ken Walker's probably the I would say,
the best offensive player on your field that morning. Players,
you're running behind your best offensive lineman. If you can't
get that one yard, okay, rams, good on you go win.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Analytics says go for it. I was for going for
it there. They said there was a fourteen percent better
chance if you win the game if you go for
it versus versus kicking. But yeah, I was. I was
screaming at the top of my lungs. I'm third and
one QB sneak.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It twice QB sneak it twice. If you don't get
it the first time, do it the second time. And
that was just so frustrating to watch.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
What else was frustrating as well is when you go
shotgun on third and short and fourth and short.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And that was early on in the game.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
And I have never understood that maybe that's something Hugh
says is a good idea. I snapped it back four
and a half yards to get six inches it. I
just don't understand that. But the one play call I
was also yelling from the stands was I think you
gotta go for two at the end of the game.
You gotta you are you in as a miracle basically
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that you're even in this position. You were dead to
right thirty seconds before you score the touchdown. Get in,
get out, go for two and get out of that
football game.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I absolutely want them to do.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
So if they go for two and don't get it
and lose the game, you're flying with.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yes, I would, I was yelling at so I would
have said, hey, I'd have to swallow it. I would
have had to swallow it because I was telling everybody
around me, I'd just go for two, get it, get out.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Of it.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, I thought that would have been. Yeah, I don't agree. Yeah,
I think I think I gotta play like that. You
can't win the game, but you can lose the game.
And I don't want to lose the game. I mean,
you know, I want to be able to go to overtime.
I mean the coin flip is obviously fifty to fifty.
Whether you get the ball, obviously you should have scored
a touchdown probably at least gotten a three.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I just didn't have confidence on my offense.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
No, I get it. I look, I mean I think
that something like that. Though, if we're sitting here in
what would this be? This would be week nine of
the NFL season, Is that right? I mean, the first
Sunday in November and we're already sitting here saying, hey,
when we're at home and the cardinal rule, I mean,
if you want to just you know, go on the road,
go on the road home, tie the game. Get the
road is home for us because Navra win that well.
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And mean, look now they're fifteen and sixteen in their
last thirty one games at home, and.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
They've lost four and twenty sauce days.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
That's right, and they are under five hundred since COVID ended.
So you know, I mean, like we said last week,
the mistique of Loomenfield's gone.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
It's gone. It is totally one hundred percent gone.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
It means nothing got the quarterback, you know, going on
the air with the media apologizing for the way he played.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
The team was getting booed.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
They were getting hammered by the by the home crowd
yesterday eleven fourteen to go, second quarter, I wrote it
down is when the boos started coming down after the
batsnap that made it third and thirty three and the
fans have just had enough. So it's incredible and it's also,
you know, completely disheartening to see this football team that
was so good at home in front of these fans
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just get completely shoved around by people and not be
ready to go and look the offense. I mean, you
want to say Geno, fine, you want to see the
offensive line.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Fine.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
The problem for me that I have is there are
moments where like the light bulb is starting to go on, right,
it's just and it just fizzles out.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
For example, from the three point thirty one mark of
the second quarter of the ten to fifty nine mark,
dick of the fourth quarter, so we're talking roughly twenty
minutes of clock time. The Seahawks had four drives. One
of them is the drive where they had the sack,
the false start, and the holding penalty on three straight plays,
and they were just done, like that drive was dead
on arrival after all that happened. The other three drives,
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they had one hundred and ninety three yards of offense,
fourteen points, and got to the Rams six yard line
before Chino threw the pick six. I mean, they're moving
the ball and they're mixing it up. They're running it,
they're throwing it. They're getting guys that I'm white, nobody's
even heard of him for guys believe in the block
(10:00):
right totally. I mean, you're you're moving the ball without
your best player in DK Metcalf, at least your best
pass catcher. You're getting guys involved that had never been
involved with the game. What some people are looking up
who the hell these guys are? And then they get
down to it and they just turn the ball over.
And so I don't know if it's a problem between
the offensive line and Geno Smith and the symmetry, there
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a problem between Geno Smith and Ryan Grubb and the
symmetry there a confidence problem for him. I have no
idea what's going on. Obviously, we know that red zone
has not been kind of Geno Smith for the last
couple of years, right, It's not been great for him whatsoever.
The numbers are actually pretty bad for Gino Smith. And
I don't know if that's a offensive line problem. Don't
know if it's just a Geno decision problem. You know,
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I saw this tweet from Danny O'Neill where they've run
like eleven plays in the red zone on the ground
and they've gone nowhere.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
They just can't run the ball inside the red zone.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Compared that to what Jonah Coleman did Saturday in the
red zone, and it's a complete one to eighty from what.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
They're not giving the ball when they're running ball, at
least they're not giving it to the other team like
they're doing throwing the ball.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Then you're just then you're giving up. Then you're waving
the white flag.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I mean, I'd rather score three than zero. They're done,
minus seven, then they're done. Then the sea we just
score zero or minus seven, Okay, then we should start
talking draft. Honestly, Jackson, if we're gonna get to the
ten yard line and just say we are so scared
to throw the ball because we don't want our quarterback
to cough it up. Then we should start talking draft
right now.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
I mean, it's sort of it sort of goes to
the point, if you can't get a yard you might
as well lose. If we're at that point we just
camp as inside of ten, we might as well just
give off.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Here's here are here are huge stats from the Morning
show today. All right, there are forty five quarterbacks since
the beginning of last season, so beginning of twenty twenty three,
we're talking a year and a half football, right there
are forty five quarterbacks with a two hundred attempts. Those
are the ones he's counting in this this stat all right,
red zone ranking for Gino Smith out of forty five quarterbacks,
passer rating forty second out of forty five, success rate
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thirty sixth out of forty five, touchdown to interception ratio
thirty ninth out of forty five, and completion percentage forty
second to forty five. You can't you can basically not
find a worse red zone quarterback in the last year
and a half in the NFL than Geno Smith, and
the numbers back it up across them.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And why is that? Is it because of him? Is
because of the offensive line? Is it because of play calling?
Is it because of their one dimensional? Is there more
context there with numbers like that? Or is it just simple?
Let's not overthink it. Geno sucks in the red zone.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I think the second part I holds much more water. Okay,
I think what's the second part?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I forgot where you said, you know, just can't get
back the first part.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
The first part is relevant. All those things contribute to it.
But if you're just bad across the board, you can
only blame so much on your coach. You can only
blame so much on your offensive line. It's on you, man.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Yeah, I don't know, man.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I mean, I have no problem criticizing Geno for yesterday's game.
I have no problem giving gen know a bunch of
flowers for the way he played against Atlanta, and I
have no problem getting after Gino for the way he
played against Buffalo. But I also think that this has
just been cascading ever since they got home from that
trip against Atlanta. I mean, what the hell is Connor
Williams doing honestly, like stop enough, like this is just
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getting stupid. Now, one this is right, but the second
one wasn't. And we had one last week where he
steps on the center. Maybe that's on Geno, maybe it's
on Connor Williams. There definitely was a snap of the
Buffalo game over Gino's head from Connor Williams. This is
two times now in two weeks where Connor Williams has
snapped the ball over Gino Smith's head.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Guys, guys, don't worry. Gino Smith says in his postgame
press conference that Connor Williams is doing a quote phenomenal job,
So don't worry.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
He's not gonna rip his own guys. Yeah, look, he's
not gonna rip his zone.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
To say he's come on, but to say he's doing
a phenomenal job, we have eyes.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
He's being a leader. Okay, that's what he's being. He's
being a fricking leader. And I appreciate that. I don't
care how dumb things look. I don't care how bad
things are. To not throw a guy under a bus
and just take responsibility. Pete Carroll did the same damn
thing when he was the head coach of the Seahawks.
How many times did you hear Pete Carroll rip somebody?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Never?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
It was always his fault. Even if we knew it
wasn't his fault, he said it was his fault.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
It just comes off all he's treating us like idiots.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Well, yeah, I don't know, man, Because Jackson, I think
the most important thing that Gino Smith has to do
right now is make sure he doesn't lose a locker room.
And if he starts blaming players, that's that's a way
to lose a lot.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
You know, to say blame you just say, yeah, we're
just working at it. We have to get better on offense.
You got to get better as an offensive line. Better
For me, that's just to say he's a phenomenal job.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I mean, if that bothers you, then that's great. I mean,
I mean, I get it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
I just think he's being a leader, right and the
story we can disagree, that's fine. But I just think
that this is a problem with this football team that
has been a problem for a long time. Right, whether
it's Russell Wilson or whether it's Geno Smith or somebody else,
they don't have elite offensive lines in Seattle, they just don't, right,
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And whether it's a John Schneider thing or a Pete
Carroll thing, or let's ignore certain positions, or we don't
want to know what the hell we're doing. I mean,
Christian Haynes was a third round draft pick, was supposed
to be the start at right guard. He wasn't even
active yesterday, right, And the guys they end up signing
get banged up, they get hurt. Charles Cross, I think,
has has gone backwards this year in a lot of
ways as the left tackle for the Seahawks. So I
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think that everybody who's pointing out coaching and Gino and
the talent and the players and they're not executing and
blah blah blah, I think all of that is totally fair,
and I could agree with all of it. But I
think that the one thing that we really haven't looked
at and we haven't talked about enough on this show.
And we haven't talked about it because the guy has
been here for a long time and they typically win
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a lot of games. As John Schneider, it's his job
to build a line on he's filmed.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
He can't do it.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
He has absolutely got enough in the offensive line department.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
But we have to make a decision here. This isn't
a decision to be made a year and a half
for now. This is a decision that needs to be
made three months from now on whether when g you know,
Smith walks into John Schneider's door and say I want
a new contract.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Right now he's getting one.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
This is a decision that needs to be made. This
is not a long term decision.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And every time he and I've always said, you know,
I take I make, you know, very very small adjustments
to my opinions through each game. But yesterday, you know,
you've seen the tectonic plates. I'm gonna use a Hue analogy.
You've seen those tectonic plates, and.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
What happens They push against each other and push again,
and every once in a while is that there's an
earthquake where they move a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yesterday for me was a tectonic shift. Is Geno Smith
for all right? So we want to want to bench him? No,
if I lose to San Francisco he doesn't play well,
you want to bench him. You want to see Sam Holt.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
I think we know what we have in Sam Howe,
which is probably about the same or worse than we
have in Gino Smith.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I think this season for me, you're gonna be four
and six.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You hold no tie breakers, your division records bad, your
your confidence records.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Bad, and it's all bad.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I mean, I don't think I bench him next, you know,
after the next game. But aid, do you want to
see what you have in Sam Howell and b you
really start that. You have to start to figure out
what you want to do in twenty twenty five and beyond,
because right now the playoffs are slip slip, sliding away
in twenty twenty Well, you had your shot yesterday and
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you blew it.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I think Gino blew it well. I think the offensive
line blew it too. I think John Schneider blew it too.
I just don't want to put all this at the
at the hands of Geno, and I know that you do,
and I get that, and that's fair.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You ever right to your opinion. I disagree with that.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
The quarterback means much more. And when he makes plays
like that, especially ones when he have tests plenty of
time and he stares down guys and throws right to them.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, well, when he's under pressure the entire day. Sometimes
those stupid mistakes are going to happen. I mean he
was under pressure like sixty percent of the time yesterday.
And look, if it takes a more, maybe a better
quarterback to handle this, I don't know who that guy is.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I gets the ball out of his hands, I don't
know who it is.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Well, I mean, look, Sam Howe led the league in
picks last year.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yes, what I'm saying, I'm not saying Sam you don't like.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
If you don't like watching Geno's thrown receptions, you're definitely
not gonna like Sam Howe. So I don't think i'd
bench him under any real circumstances at all. I would
just play the guy the entire year and see what happens.
But I also think that the original perspective on this
season was, Hey, if Gino Smith, we're gonna break here
in a second. If Geno Smith is playing for a contract,
he's not playing for a long deal. He's playing for
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maybe a two year extension. Right, Yes, so you were
either way, You're looking for the guy in three, four,
five years from now. None of that has to change,
just like none of it had to change when they
acquired Sam Howe from Washington. It never had to change.
They always could have drafted a quarterback. They always could
have moved up to get somebody, but they didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So nothing's different going into the offseason.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
The Seahawks still need a long term answer at the
quarterback position. No matter what Geno does the rest of
the year, we're gonna break. Will Rogers is gonna join
us after it went over USC Next on ninety three
to three.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
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Speaker 2 (19:20):
Husky's up by five snapped to Miller.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Moss drops back to pass backpedals of the twenty five chase.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Clod flutters the ball up and leave. It's in complete.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
It's in complete, I say, Award Head Aliance Holtz Klaub
get after the quarterback and the Husky defense comes up
with the stop and eleven seconds to go.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
All right, normally at four point thirty, but we're going
early today because Will's got a team meeting to get
to at four o'clock. Uh, joining us right now, courtesy
of our friends at Montlake Futures. The quarterback for your
five and four Huskies, Will Rogers.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Will, how are you? Man? What's going on?
Speaker 10 (19:57):
How's it going?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I'll do all right?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Good?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Better now after that went over USC? So you're not
You're not as old as we are man, sitting here
on the West coast. Beating UC is always a fun
thing for us, is you know, a long time pack
ten packed twelve guys. But when Lance Holtsklaw on his
only snap of the game, by the way, whips Mason Murphy,
who's the right tackle for USC, gets into Miller Moss's
(20:20):
face and forces that deflection, what's the reaction of the sideline?
What's your reaction when you guys won that game? After
that big defensive stand.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Oh, I was going crazy. I wish somebody could find
a video of me or something when that play was
going home. But I don't know. I know I jumped
up in the air like three or four times and
was just really excited and you know, just really stoked
for the guys, especially the defense to get a huge
stop there.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Well on the defense was phenomenal and soft. He mentioned
beating USC. It's now three times in a row. U
dub has not beaten USC three times in a row
since the glory days of the early nineties. And you
know there's another streak that's going on as well at
night seen straight at Husky Stadium. How much is that,
if at all, talked about in your locker room.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
I mean a little bit here and there.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
You know, I think.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
I think guys are just focused on one week at
a time, though, you know, it's obviously something that people
know about, and it's something you know, from what I've seen.
You know, obviously we haven't only been here a year,
but it's something that I've seen people take a great,
great deal of pride in, you know, just winning at home,
winning in front of these great fans, and you know,
obviously the fans are terrific Saturday night. So anytime we
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can play play anybody here, we feel good about our chances.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
So yeah, yeah, well, Will Rodgers is with us.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I got to ask you about number twelve man and
Denzel Boston, another big day for him, and we're sitting
there in the press box watching just crosser after crosser
after crosser at Phil Crosser and just slicing USC's defense
up with that route. What is it about that route
and that receiver and your connection with him that's working
so well, you think?
Speaker 10 (22:01):
I mean, it's honestly just reps, you know, I mean,
he's he's the first receiver I threw too when I
got here, you know, So it's it's a ton of
reps since you know, last January, just getting to know
each other, getting to be familiar with how he runs
his routes. He's extremely talented, he's he's a big physical
you know, but they're still still room to grow, in
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my opinion. You know, there's some things that we could
do better. I missed him on a couple of throws,
so there's some things that clean up, for sure. But
I think he's done a great job of just preparing
week in and week out, and he's obviously pretty pretty
electrifying with the ball in his hands, and the way
he gets opened.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Number is unbelievable, seventy one point one percent. You're just
your completion percentage, right, now. I think it was as
high as seventy three at one point during the game
for the season. Break it down for us, I mean,
how much of it is accuracy? How much of it
is play calling, you know, running the right plays in
order for you to be that accurate. How much is
just your decision making and the fact that you've been
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playing college quarterback for a half a decade.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
I mean, I think it's a little bit of everything,
you know. I mean, you're making me feel old right there,
but it's a little bit of everything.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
You know.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
It's a credit to coach and the way he calls
plays and things like that. It's a credit to the
offensive line and then the receivers of course for you know,
bringing down some tough catches at times. You know, I've
obviously played played football for a little while now, but
I think it all just comes down to just knowing
the system, know what we're trying to do on offense,
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knowing the play college purpose wise, coach calling this play, yeah,
and then just trying to do my job playing and
play out. You know, things are gonna happen, you know,
tip balls, some things like that that you can't control,
but you should have to have ability just to play
the next play and keep on rolling.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Well, Will Rogers again is with us.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
If you win Saturday against Penn State, you're eligible for
a ball game, which I'll be honest with you, man,
typically isn't celebrated much around here because the standards are
a lot higher than that. But the context of having
you know, half a new roster flipping everything over, is
there room for you to celebrate something like that if
you can get to win number six and at minimum
become ball eligible.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
Yeah, I mean I think anytime you can come ball eligible,
it's a great deal. I mean, obviously we feel like
we should have been for a couple of weeks now,
but you know, he knows what it is. Our record
is what it is, you know. I think it is
something we talked about in the locker room this week
is you know, you can't go back, you can't go
back to two months ago and change them things. But
we just have to focus on now and we obviously
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have a big task ahead this week, so we have
to have a great week of practice and that's where
it all starts this week.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yeah, well, let me ask you about that, because there's
this like new tradition, Will as you know of guys
skipping out on bowl games, right for a lot of reasons.
Christian McCaffrey started this, like six seven years ago whatever,
he skipped the Sun Bowl for Stanford. If the Huskies
get to a ball game, can we count on you
playing in that thing?
Speaker 10 (24:58):
Yeah, for sure, I'll be there. Uh, that's not really
how I was. And everybody's got their own reasons for
not playing a bowl game, for sure, and I respect
those reasons, and I respect people, you know, chasing their
dreams and you know, preparing for the NFL and things
like that. But you know, that's just not really who
I am as a person. And you know, I'm not
the type of guy just to bail on on on
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my teammates with one game left.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So that's sure, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
We love to hear that Will Rodgers is joining us.
Will I I I tweeted out today. Has there been
a bigger badass this century on the Husky football team
than Carson Brunner. I'm gonna twist the question a little
bit to you and say, where does Carson Bruner rank
as far as the best leaders and badasses you've ever
played with in college football?
Speaker 10 (25:44):
I mean, he's up there for sure. You know, I've
I've played with a lot of a lot of really
good just football players. You know, that's a great way
to describe him, is that he's just a football player,
you know, and he's not the biggest, he's not the
fastest or the strongest or anything like that. But you
know you can tell Saturday, Uh, he can really turn
it on and flip that switch where he's just you know,
playing football at a really, really high level. So I'm
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really really proud of him. I'm excited to excited to
see where he goes these next you know, three or
four weeks at the end of the season, and I
hope he can kill keep building on the confidence that
he had from last game.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
So yeah, he's the man for sure. I love it.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Hey, just give us a quick thought going to Penn State.
Haven't won a game away from Husky Stadium.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
All year long.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
What do you guys need to do preparation wise, protocol
wise to get off the schneid and win a road
game for the first time this year.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
Yeah, it's a it's a huge challenge obviously. I mean
it's the white out, it's an eight o'clock kickoff on
Eastern tom So it's gonna be a huge challenge. You know,
it's in front of one hundred and ten thousand or
whatever it is. So honestly, just worry about it one
day at a time, man, you know. Just worry about
practice tomorrow, worry about our meetings tonight tomorrow. So just
(26:58):
just locking in on the small things, you know. So
if we can just prepare good this week during the
week and then transfer that over to the fild Saturday,
I feel good about.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
It all right, man, go get I'm hoping talking Monday
about it.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Win over Penn State number six team of the country,
best of luckown.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
We'll talk Monday.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
Man.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Appreciate it, dude, Yes, sir, y'all have a good day.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Got it.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Will Rogers with us courtesy. I'm out like futures. We're
a little late, but let's get to Factor fiction right now.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
We're set to go. Glad you're with us.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
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Speaker 4 (27:50):
Three and eleven. The last three weeks on this radio
show is our record.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I think we're starting to shift to like number one
draft pick, time, load management, all that stuff. I just
think it's time for somebody else to shine. We've owned
the top of the mountain for too long and it's
time for someone else to take over.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Year reloading, yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I mean it kind of runs over. You gotta get
new people in here, you know, new approach whatever. So
I'm gonna make this simple for you. On Factor Fiction
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under forty five and a half. On Saturday and Happy Valley,
(28:31):
We're taking the under in the Penn State Washington Washing game.
I think it's gonna be close where covers the spread
because of the kind of game they play, but I
also feel a little more confident in the under. I
could see a twenty to fourteen thirty seven to thirty
four point total type of game. So give us the
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U DUB game Factor fiction to four nine four or
(28:53):
five one.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
No, I like it.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
I think the only way Penn State gets to you know,
thirty is if they really are able to break the
Huskies will on the ground in the second half, kind
of similar to the way Iowa did it.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
If that and that's all they can do is probably
get to thirty.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
And I think you know, the Huskies, you know, I
don't know how how well they're gonna be able to
move the ball consistently at Penn State in that environment.
I hope I'm wrong, but uh, you know it's gonna be.
It's gonna be tough for the Dogs to get to twenty.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Four twenty one in that game, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
All right, under forty five and a half for the
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We're gonna break a little fun with audio, and then
(29:47):
we're gonna let you decide who's to blame for the
Seahawk offense sucking at four right here on ninety three
three kJ A RFM.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
It's now time for something in digs one with aut
of you, Jimmy g.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Pawn Star, Jimmy mister garoppolo. Now let's have some fun
with audio.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Wow, alright, We're gonna let you decide who is at fault,
who should get the finger a blame, the softy dick
and Jackson pointy, crooked, hairy, nasty finger a blame for
what happened yesterday during the Seahawk game. That whole thing
just sounded disgusting. By the way, at four o'clock, we'll
let you just take over the show because that means
less of us talking, which is good for everyone. Right now, though,
(30:28):
it's time for a little fun with audio slash. Hey
did you hear that? We're gonna get to more thoughts
on the Seahawk game coming up in the four o'clock
hour four twenty eight segment as well. This is me,
by the way, looking for the proper sound effects. Here
we go, Hey, Dick, did you happen.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
To hear that? What was that?
Speaker 9 (30:45):
Dave?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Dick? What do you say we start?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
In the National Football League, Tom Brady, as the part
owner of the LA Raiders, is not allowed to criticize officials.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
You know that, right? It works for Fox.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
It was on the Fox Sports call the Lions Packers
yesterday and tiptoed the line of criticism when Lions safety
Brian Branch was ejected for an illegal hit.
Speaker 12 (31:08):
The officials called the foul, they can decide to eject.
This happened so late, this had to come from New York.
They're looking at it. They decided. I don't love that.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Call at all.
Speaker 11 (31:21):
I mean, obviously it's a penalty, But to me, that
has to be serious intent in.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
A game like this. See, I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
After hearing that, I think he went further than I
thought he was gonna go. I mean him actually saying
he didn't like the call, and then could that be
construed as criticism?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I have no idea what the nfls I have no
idea what the NFL's version of criticism is, Dick.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
But he went further and I thought he was gonna go.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
If Tom Brady can't do that right on the air, yes,
then how can he call a game?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I mean that is part of being color commentator.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
You have to be able to give your opinions on everything,
including the officials decision.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I'll tell you what. I'll say it again. I've said
it before.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
The Jagoa White Sox totally get it because they stink
and they let their post names Joe roast everybody love
every night. Can you imagine if John Stanton and Chris
Larsen and Kevin Martinez picked up the bat phone to
Bellevue and called Brad, Adam and Angie and said, hey,
just go for it.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Let us have it. Don't even act like your partners.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
They have watched, they have their former manager.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
How about us having lou doing?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Oh I want they stuck. We would watch, we watched,
watch every post.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
They'd get better ratings. So what are they in?
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Are they in the are the TV business? Or are
they in the making themselves feel good business? Uh? Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear where are we going next.
How about more NFL Bears were getting blown out twenty
nine to nine by the Cardinals yesterday and the clock
ticked under two minutes, Caleb Williams was still in the
game for Chicago. On the CBS broadcast, analyst Charles Davis
was critical of Bears head coach Matt Eberflus keeping his
(32:58):
rookie quarterback in the game, and then the very next play,
william suffered an ankle injury.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
William's still in the ballgame at this stage, and I
know he is. You know you mentioned it, how uber
competitive he is. He probably doesn't want to come out.
I don't know that I would continue to have him
in at this stage. I'm not sure how many more
lessons there are for arms at.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
This ball game.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I want that kid ready to go for next week. Nine,
to go third and seven for the Bears.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Just pop up time. Here Williams weaving around nearly the
ball slept out of there.
Speaker 8 (33:30):
See Williams slowed a get up after the two yard
game and a little bit of a limp.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
I don't think there's any toughness to prove here.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
And now he's grabbing at the back of his leg
as a Quara was there.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I'm sorry, this just does not make sense to me.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
How this is your rookie quarterback, that's the face of
your franchise.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
I don't think he should have been out there for
the two minutes. It's dumb. It's just dumb.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I mean, sometimes there's more context there, but I was
watching some of that too. It's just stupid, man, I mean,
why would you have him in there when the game
you're down by twenty points with two minutes.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
To gets over. Game is over.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
That was the point having the guy out there. He
should he should be ripped. And I guarantee our guys
in Chicago were going after.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
The Shane Waldern experience has been fabulous in Chicago. And
Matty ebra Flucie, here's a little trivia question for you boys.
Matt eber Flues has coached eighteen Sunday road games as
the head coach of the Chicago Bears. Right, how many wins?
Two and sixteen?
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Jackson, I mean four wins, zero and eighteen.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
That's incredible.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
He is oh and eighteen on Sundays on the road
as head coach of the Bears.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
He's getting fired. Did you happen to hear that let's
do three or four pick one Jackson three. Last week,
the SEC outlined new punishments, including fines and suspensions for teams, players,
and coaches being caught faking injuries in college football like
Chris Hudson did with Oregon two years ago and you
missed Turk Ferguson last year. In Week six, Tim Tebow
(34:59):
then joined College Game Day on Saturday and talked about
the issue of players making injuries.
Speaker 11 (35:04):
I'm a soccer fan. I love that we're bringing teams
here to Jacksonville. I think soccer is a great sport.
But we don't want to turn football into soccer. Okay,
there is a difference, and I don't think that we
should just be tap, Oh my gosh, I'm gonna go
fall down.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
No, no, no.
Speaker 11 (35:18):
That works in another sport and it's the biggest sport
in the world. But we're celebrating college football right now,
and college football is different game than soccer.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Both are amazing.
Speaker 11 (35:28):
Let's keep football as football and let's not do that.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Well.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
They did it twice in two years against the Huskies
and got away with it both times. They lost both
those games, and for me, the straw that started to
break the back is when Kirk Kirk Street was on
the broadcast for ABC that day, going, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Is it your left leg? Is he your right?
Speaker 9 (35:45):
Ley?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Cold? Which one is it?
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Dude? And that's Tash lu POI Toash.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Lupoy was doing the same thing when he was at
UDB and CAL And I gotta tell you, man, you're
a competitor. You played sports. I played sports, Jackson, you know,
all of us played sports back.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
In the day.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
How big of a tool do you have to be
to consciously fake an injury and go down to stop
the clock?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I mean, what a d bag move that. I can't
even think right.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I can't even think about doing that now.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
If my coach demanded it of me, I guess I
would have to.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
If you're a college player, I guess you got the
guts to say no.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
That good for you. But you're totally right, man, I mean,
you might have to do whatever the coach is asking for.
But it's just a it's just a d bag move. Yes,
it's a total d bag move by these guys to
do that. I'm glad they're jumping on this. All right,
We're gonna break who's to blame for the Seahawks struggles yesterday,
We'll get a bunch of calls.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
We're gonna go watch seven calls. Is that right, People's court?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
I watch seven calls at two age six, ninety five,
ninety five or eight hundred and eight to nine oh
nine five.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Oh, we're gonna hear a little bit.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Gino Smith is gonna say he's sorry, and then you're
gonna tell us who's to blame for the Seahawk offensive problem.
Is it a coaching issue? Is it a quarterback issue?
Is it an offensive line issue? Is it something else?
We're a missing issue.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Get on the
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Horn and tell us next on ninety three to three
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