November 6, 2024 • 36 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Kevin Harlan about Monday Night Football this week, the Lions, and more NFL, plus talk to Brian Schmetzer about the Sounders’ playoff series win in Houston, and the duo discuss a new Seahawks poll.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They are NFL champions. The Seattlesyhawks have one Super Bowl
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time thirty and twenty four and.
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They go to eight.
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Speaker 3 (01:25):
Around the globe. Our pal, Kevin Harlan. How are you, buddy,
Softy doing great?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
How are he? Sounds like you're not in the studio tonight.
Speaker 7 (01:33):
No, we're at the five twenty bar and grill. You
remember the old five twenty bar and grill?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Uh, yeah, I do.
Speaker 7 (01:40):
Indeed, we're actually here because we do our show here
for one simple reason, because Mike Holmgren doesn't want to
have to fight traffic from his Kirkland home across the
bridge to go downtown to our office. So we do
the show here so Mike can have a short commute.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I think that's great. You keep around the Hall of
Coaching and uh make it make it a little easy
on him. I like that. Mike smart and you're smart
to do it by his wish.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Yeah. Unfortunately, he's in Portugal right now, so he won't
even be here today. But we're here today and then
I gotta fly to Penn State tomorrow for the Hoskey game. Yeah, well,
we got to make sure we do our diligence, saying,
you know, do our fulfill our duty with the with
the with the bar. So anyway, it's great to hear
your voice, man, before we launch into a lot of
stuff happening with the Seahawks. I want to go back
to the game that you did Monday night. I'm I'm
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I'm literally yelling at the TV go for two for
Tampa Bay and they went for the extra point and
they immediately give up. The touchdown was so predictable that
the outcome went the way it did. Why did Tampa
Bay not go for too And did you think that
was the right call?
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Well, yeah, I think we I was doing with Kurt Warner,
and I believe he said I'd probably go for two
you're on the road. I think the conditions, Todd Bowle
said afterwards, we're a concern. I don't know. I mean,
I'm not sure I did. Maybe had more faith in
his defense that they would make a hold and that
the offense to get it back and they'd be able
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to get a field go and get out of there.
Or maybe they just felt coming back from the deficit
that they were going through that they, you know, just
to tie him and then to reassess where they were
was the better move. You know, it's you could probably
put ten coaches in a room and in this case
it may be six to four go for two, but
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I think a lot of them would probably have gone
for just the game tying extra point as well. So
I've I mean, I don't know how you look at it.
I will say that the Buccaneers are a strong team.
Their quarterback is playing at a high level there without
their two top receivers, and they give the defending champions
on their turf in bad weather on the road, a
very difficult game.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
No question.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
The other piece of that game I want to ask
you about, and it turned out to be not a
big deal, I guess when it's all said and done.
But you're in the stadium when Patrick Mahomes hobbles off
after hitting the turf with what.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Looked like an ankle knee.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
I don't know what it was, but can you give
us an idea of what it's like to be in
that stadium when that guy gets hurt?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Well, it was pretty quiet and rightly. So he was
down after he ran and he had to be hoisted
up to his feet, and you could sell. You could
tell by the look on his face that something was
not right. And these non contact injuries, these soft tissue Injuri,
these non contact injuries are just so scary because nine
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times out of ten it's a significant issue. And that's
what you were thinking. Did he mess up his ankle,
which it looked like he did. Did he pop an achilles,
which he easily could. What was there something more nefarious
at work here with regard to the injury? And it
just turned out that he had just kind of come
on it wrong. The leg did not flex the way
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it needed to or cushion the way that ankle needed
to come down. He may have been going a little
bit gingerly because the turf is wet. He was getting
rid of the ball. I mean he's being chased. I
mean he get getting close to the sideline. There's a
lot of play here, but he clearly came back from it.
Andy reads it after the game goes. I don't know
what he's got in his ankles, and all his ankles
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are constructed, but he just he continues to defy medicine,
because most guys would be out and hobbling, and he
just goes right back in the game and acts like
nothing's happened. Now, he has had ankle injuries throughout his career,
not unlike Steph Curry in the NBA with the Golden
State Warriors, not as significant, but they've been there, so
something clearly to keep an eye in. I think he
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works on this diligently during the off season so that
this is not an issue. But he's a lot of
quick twitch and if you're a quick twitch guy, your
ankles are under a great deal of stress.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I am not a quick twitch guy,
so I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
I was just going to say that opposite of you,
that complete other direction of you, and you know what,
I'll throw myself in that category to you and I
are not quick twitch people.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you, I mean, what do
you do? What do you do to keep in shape
over the offseason?
Speaker 7 (06:07):
You play pick up basketball, the guys are you in
a beer softball league?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
What do you do to kind of get those competitive
juices flow in? Pal?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I walk with my wife, That's what I do. And
I think what he does is he goes through We've
seen this on TV, a very extensive offseason, individual core work,
kind of unconventional, different kinds of ways to strengthen your body.
And here, let me just say this real quick about
the Chiefs and Mahomes. I think they're the most interesting
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team aside from Baltimore in the NFL. They are winning
with new parts in different ways, and the quarterback doesn't
even remotely resemble what he was when he came into
the league. He is more game manager and winner than
he is. Generational arm talent with unconventional ways of throwing
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the ball are just something we have not seen in
the league. He's gone from that to now, you know,
picking and poking his way down field with short passes,
relying on yards after catch after he gets the guys
in space, finding pockets of ope. He's settling for seven yards,
not having to go for twenty seven thirty seven every
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time he goes down the field, like he's playing in
a different way. That is just I think very interesting.
The offense is being called different, and I think it's
going to continue to evolve with DeAndre Hopkins and their
new running back Kareem Hunt.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
No doubt Kevin Harlan is with us, who has no
need to evolve because he is already the greatest broadcast
during the history of the National Football League, so no
need to change anything.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
But he's with us here on the air courtesy of
the MRA Queen.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Hey, dude, the Lions walked into Green Bay and walked
out with a win, which doesn't happen very often, seven
to one, twenty four fourteen over Green Bay. Are we
ready now to just simply proclaim the Lions the team
to beat without question in the NFC?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yeah, I would agree that the strongest, most physical, as
well coached as any I'm not ready to say he's
better than McVeigh. I'm not ready to say he's better
than Shanahan. But clearly what he's done and the turnaround
has been remarkable. You know, I don't think this Jared
Goff gets enough credit. He just here. Here's what's going
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great for golf is he is not carrying the burden
of the entire offense. In Los Angeles, so much came
through him because all they did was throw. Are they
threw most of the time in Detroit. The balance there,
as it is with Washington, the balance with the Lions
is just eye opening. And the good teams have got
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at Baltimore, Kansas City, Detroit, Washington, they've got great balance.
And anyone that thought that running backs were out of
vogue and didn't have a place and where like you
put out the past year, there's so wrong. You need
to run the ball as well as you throw it,
and that's where the NFL is right now. But it's
evolving from all passing, which is great, but the more reliable,
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tried and true is to play the complimentary football. You
run the ball, you rest your defense, you sprinkle it
with passes, and you set up with a lot of
play action. You rely on your defense, and Detroit's defense
and the Chiefs defense and Baltimore's defense to a degree
it's not great, but they've got playmakers. Washington's defense pretty good.
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Like like complimentary football, they're all playing it, but no
one is solely just passing the ball. Is you might
have seen four or five six years ago. Now it
is a lot of balance, and that really is the
word for success in the National Football Like balance on
offense is just so valuable and incredibly effective.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Right now, Well, there's a lot of Seahawks fans listening
right now, Kevin, that are not in their head.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, uh huh, uh huh.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Because the Seahawks right now, we're number one of the
un in passing attempts at three hundred and forty three,
yet only have a quarterback rating of eighty nine or
a passer rating of eighty nine, and the offense is
getting clocked here in Seattle. They lost to the Rams
again over the weekend. Gino through three interceptions, including two
inside the ten yard line, one of them taken back
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for a pick six by the Rams over the weekend.
I mean, you saw these guys a couple of weeks ago,
and ever since the three and oh start, they've won
a game.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And now they're four and five. What do you what
do you see happening out here?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Well, four and five is great. Just let's get let's
get past Thanksgiving and be close to five hundred and
then in that division, Look how even all those teams
are right, I mean, they're all right there, so so
they're very much in it. Let me ask you a quick question,
walk has is he injured? Is he nicked up? Or
is he not?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
He's good diet or what he's good?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
But he ran? Yeah, I don't know what's going on then,
because when I saw him in Detroit, and that was
the last time I saw him after watching him after
watching the team win in Seattle over Miami up there
for CBS, and the next week we had him in
Detroit and he was unstoppable and the complimentary football was terrific.
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So I don't know what's going on and what's happening
to Kenneth Walker, who I think, when he's on top
of his game, is as dangerous or running back as
you're gonna find. But clearly something's that I don't know
if it's your offensive line. I quite frankly now at
the NBA starting, I've not seen as much Seahawk fit
football from Afar as I probably should. I worry about
the games I've got, and I've got four different teams
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every weekend, and I'm really really riled in on that.
I's I can't. I will tell you. I read a
couple of headlines, you see a couple of a couple
of replays. I keep track of Smith. I think he's
a very interesting player. But Walker, I think if you
can't run the ball in this league, you're in trouble.
So I don't know where that is with the Seahawks.
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If you cannot run, you are in trouble.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Well tell ya.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
I mean, first of all, he was banged up. He's
good now. He was banged up for a little bit,
but his back. He had twenty five carries against the Rams,
Kevin for eighty three yards in that game and caught
three more balls for twenty four yards. He was well
over one hundred yards in total offense. But the offensive
line here is just awful. I mean, they got Abe
Lucas banged up, George George Fan came back and lasted
like seventeen snaps and got hurt again in this in
(12:21):
this game against the Rams. And I guess I'm just
trying to figure out why it's been so freaking hard
for teams to build offensive lines or is that just
a problem that we have out here.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
No, it's all over the league now. Listen, Rams are
a team that's rising, right, They're getting guys back, They're
getting they're getting guys back on their line. They got
the two receivers involved again. We were both were out
for the first part of the season. Kyron Williams is
a force. The quarterback is smart and you take away
maybe some of the top glittering names at the top
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of the NFC quarterback list, and Stafford is still as
effective as anybody went needed. Rams are a good team. Welcome,
we know that.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Now.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I don't know what it is about offensive lineman it is.
I will tell you this. I think it is more
important to have the same guys, have continuity of differing abilities,
regardless of where you were drafted or undrafted, how you
got there. If you can start the same line game
after game after game, if you've run with that line
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through training camp, those are usually the offensive lines that thrive.
It is more about continuity, right, and chemistry and covering
for your brother and helping on the line, and and
and and just knowing the nuances of what that line does.
That is almost if you're if you're juggling technicles every game,
and and a and a guard every game and different
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players are in there. That that the stress of an
offensive line is is incalculable because that's the one group
as a fivesome that's in there literally every play, and
the more they play together, even if they're varying talent,
it's always better. And and and and I'm not sure
I couldn't give you the specifics on the line, but
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if they're shuffling guys in and out all the time,
that's a recipe for disaster and it's just no continuity.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
No, that's exactly what they're doing. I mean, I mean
you just literally described it to a t. I mean,
they they're trying to get away from that. They they're
they're going with Anthony Bradford now as their right guard.
But that was just last week against the Rams, and then,
like we said, George Fan got banged up again. Kevin
Harlan's with us and and Kevin before we find out
where will.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Kevin be for TV on Sunday? I do want to
ask you.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
As an NBA guy, by the way, what's your what's
your NBA schedule this week?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Uh? We we were off yesterday because the league goes dark.
League did not play a game yep on Election Tuesday.
So our next game let me thank here real quick.
I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You need a secretary, you need an assistant man.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
No, I know, I know, I know. I'm truly a
day by day guy. We have the Dallas Mavericks at
the Golden State Warriors. Warriors are surprising people. If had
some injuries, and yet they were five and one. I'm
not sure what they've done here last a couple of days,
but I've got Dallas at Golden State on Tuesday night
for GMG.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Got you.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Yeah, they won last night, actually Golden State did, so
they're six and one right now. But Kevin, I want
to ask you about just kind of what people are
saying around the league about the Joel Embiid suspension. You know,
this writer in Philadelphia brings up his dead brother and
his son, and Embiid gets in his face and he's angry,
you know, justifiably in my opinion, angry, shoves the guy
(15:31):
and now is out a million bucks in a three
game suspensions.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
What's kind of the buzzer on the NBA about that situation?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Well, you know, the guy for the guy that writes
for the Inquirer. I've not met him, I've rarely read him.
I don't know about it. I did have some people
tell me he is kind of an agitator and and
Embid is an easy target. He appears to be constantly
taking games off. The team is already deep in the
hole if he's only going to play sixty games because
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they want to wait for the play if they may
not make the playoffs because that him playing sixty games
may not be good enough. And uh, he's making a
lot of money. And yet it seems like all the
city has done is wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait for him to be the player they thought he
would be. And he's been closed, he's got the MVPs,
he's done. But but the team can never get deep
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into the playoffs. And it's always because he's nicked up
or injured. So the load management word is coming out
a lot. The league has had no pizazz right the
league is I don't know, last year they had a
little bomentum. We're and here's here's another thing too about
the NBA. We're getting to the end of these big
name players Lebron, Steph Curry. The these big name players
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are are are getting old Kevin Durant like like, and
when that group goes, the next group is the embiids,
the Devin Bookers, maybe you know Anderson up in Minnesota,
like like Doncic, who's Who's Who's not a flashy player
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and certainly does not have the charisma that some of
these other guys do. The league isn't kind of an
interesting situation. Before it was it was Bird and Magic,
and then it was uh, Michael Jordan, and then it
was Kobe and and and then it was Lebron and
and now I don't know who the torch is gonna
go to, but there doesn't seem to be like an
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electrifying player that is so captivating that you've got to
what yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
No doubt, all right before you go, here we go.
We got like a minute left. This is perfect. Uh,
this is what we call filler in the business. By
the way, it's time for another edition of Where will
Kevin Be?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
For TV? On Sunday.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
We know you got the Dolphins rams Monday. I'm gonna
say Eagles Cowboys is gonna go to Uh to Toromo's crew.
That's always a big one. I'm gonna guess, you know,
what the hell with it. I'm gonna just go with
the over reliable chiefs are back home. You live in
Kansas City, bosses, do you favor? You sleep in your
own bed, you wear your own pajamas, You eat breakfast
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from your own ball. On Sunday morning, you get in
your tricycle and you drive over to Arrowhead for Denver,
Kansas City Sunday am I.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Right, yes, how about that baby?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Look who knows what he's talking about? Look who?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
How do you guys get the game? It's a split
national so I think we get I think we have
everything west of the Mississippi on that broadcast. So yeah,
you'll you'll see it. And the Chiefs are eight. No,
they've won fourteen consecutive games, including the playoffs, longest in
team history. They're doing it in a weird way. They've
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had a lot of one score wins, and they're defending
a title and they are right on track to make it.
There Again, I don't think they're the best team in
the AFC. The record said that otherwise. I think there
are a couple other teams that are probably better. Right now.
They're playing winning football, and there's not a team in
football that would would not trade positions with it. You
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play winning football in this league, you don't care how
it's done, you don't care the margin will win. You're
playing winning football. It matters, and it builds momentum and competence,
and the Chiefs have all of those boxes checked right now.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Kevin, you're the man, great stuff as always, you already
brought it again bring it again next Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
All right, enjoy it and we'll talk that pass about
all right?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I find it five talk paill.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
All right, man, Kevin Harlan with us. We're gonna break
a lot more to come from the five to twenty
bar and grill on a busy Wednesday right here on
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Speaker 2 (19:37):
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Speaker 7 (19:51):
You sure about that if there's an earthquake over there,
we'd field over.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Here as the earthquake flies. We're only like ten miles
from Jackson.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
The Squally quake that we felt, Uh, was that twenty
years ago or so?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You're telling me that you would have felt that sitting
right here in absolutely Okay.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
I felt it at my house. I felt I was
farther away from the station than we are right calling.
What's an earthquake specialist called seismologists?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (20:17):
I'm no seismologist, but I'll take your word for it. Man, Yes,
I mean you're making a compelling case.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I mean unless it's a tiny, tiny, tiny earth quill.
I mean somebody could have farted to in the office. Man, Wow,
is that what Jackson felt? Bucky there?
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Oh the building the biggest dude I can imagine.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Right, I'm not gonna say, hey, it's actually there actually
may have farted. I think that.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
I think that Sarge and Rich are the only two
people in this uh building.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Right now, I'll tell you what Serge needs. You know
what Serget needs? A neck endorsement? A neck endorsement. What
do you mean, no, Sarge?
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Yes, I know, Sarge.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Oh you need he needs to like devise.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
To give him a free I went to the next
door got the latest version. If you saw the guy
that I'm talking about, you know, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
He's the opposite of Steve Grogan. Yes, he's the opposite
of Mert hurt and hands. He has no neck? Whatso?
I haven't noticed that?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
But now you put me in that into my.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Body looks like an orange with a gup dropper. Wow.
I won't be able to get that out of my
brain now when I see him.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Sorry, Sorge, I mean a kid because I love a kid,
because I love for crying out loud. All right, Hey, Jackson.
Dick says, we have dueling poles on the internet. Oh
that's weird at Dick Fane's Twitter account. What do you
got their big felt.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Dueling poles start with the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Right which side of the ball? Am I am? I
ever oppositiz Hawks? I am optimistic Seahawks conversation.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
They're making it very easy by losing four games at
home in twenty seven days for me to be a
little negative about the football team.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Every hour, it's just like this, and that they can't
run the ball, and what the hell are they doing?
And we suck and everybody sucks.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
When I hate it.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
People are sitting in traffic right now with a more
positive thought about the Seahawks right now or a more
negative thought about I'm a glass half full guy, So
I say positive. I I didn't ask what you were
turning around. I was asking what Joe from Renton is thinking.
Is he stopped in four O fives?
Speaker 7 (22:17):
These guys right here, Yes, this guy's a listener over here.
The guy enjoyed his chicken wings.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Hey guys, you guys a question.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
You have more positive vibe for the Seahawks or a
negative vibe right now? At negative yeah, so the barts
a negative master. Uh see that guy says positive.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Oh, there you go. There's one out of three, one
out of three.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
Which side of the ball has been more disappointing to you?
Okay this season, offense or defense? How the respondent's answered,
and how would you respond to Jackson?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Then I know how the respondents answered because it's your
Twitter account and your minions on your people.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It's definitely offense for you. And then number two.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Then we just had this conversation like a month ago
and we all said defense.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It was defense a month ago.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
One month ago, we're literally sitting here saying what's wrong
with the Seahawks? Yes, and okay, Jackson le was definitely
the defense. Now it's definitely the offense. I mean, we're
literally doing what you hate that people do, changing our
mind every five minutes.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Well, what's crazy is actually, statistically.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
The offense is better.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
Well, the offense is better. Yes, they're fourteenth in scoring.
Last year they were seventeenth, the year before that they
were tenth. So their offense is basically the exact average
of what they've been each of the last two years.
Whereas the defense, listen to this, they're twenty fourth. Last
year they were twenty fourth. Two years ago they were
twenty fifth, And I thought Mike McDonald was supposed to
take a twenty fourth ranked defense and turn it into
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a top half defense or else.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Why was Pete Carroll fires See?
Speaker 7 (23:46):
I just expected more of a improvement, quicker on the
defense side of the ball because of the head coach.
I know they may have better talent on the offensive
side of the ball, but the offensive line is just
effing everything up on offense right, fucking it up.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
And you can say the defense has been banged up.
That's certainly fair.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Up until a couple weeks ago they were dealing with
some massive injuries. But I'm telling you, I absolutely remember
Jackson saying, Jackson, you said this thought the defense was
a disappointment. Well, and now it's the offense exactly because
I think it has flipped. I think we've seen better.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
I mean the Rams game, that's a way better defensive performance,
even with Puka throwing a punch and getting himself ejected,
like they did a great job on Stafford and Kiren Williams.
So credit to Mike McDonald. He shored that up. The
problem is the offense has gotten so much worse.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
That's right, that's right. And in the San Francisco game too, Jackson.
I leave the San Francisco game thinking, well, the offense
just hung the D out to dry and eventually the
D ran out of gas. That's kind of how I
look at the San Francisco game. And then you're exactly
right about the Rams game. I mean, that was one
half of a Seahawks team playing it at least a
B plus a minus level and the other half playing it.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
D plus ninth in total offense in the NFL. I
don't care about your birds, okay.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Right now, like the nine, because I think they started
the season really well.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Right well, no, they're actually moving the ball. They're just
not scoring. I mean that's the problem. That's like I said,
they had one hundred ninety three yards on three drives
from the what I say mark three minute mark of
the second quarter to the ten minute mark of the
fourth quarter. They should have scored twenty one and then
Gino threw a pick six. I think yards are important
because it shows that you're getting in position.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
To score points. Well, they're just not finishing drives.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
They're having the same problem right now that the Huskies
were having a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But you didn't give the Huskies the benefit of.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
The doubts a couple of weeks ago, So why are
you giving the Sea I'm just saying the potentials there.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
They got to finish drives. I mean, you're you're right.
Unless you're scoring, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
But if they were twenty fifth in total offense and
not even putting themselves in position to finish drives, it
wouldn't matter. I think there's a hell of a lot
of potential with the Seahawks offense. I think there's tons
of potential where just like I think there's tons of
potential with the Husky offense. And if they finished drives
and like they did on Saturday versus.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
USC, you'll see it.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
But this offensive line, I mean, guys, at least the
Huskies have a freaking excuse.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
They lost their entire line from last year.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
The Seahawks brought back Charles Cross, they brought back Abe Lucas,
they brought back Big o'lu. They signed Connor Williams, they
brought in Lincoln Tomlinson, They drafted Christian Haynes, they re
signed George Fans.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I mean, my god, they went out.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
And made a ton of moves to fix the offensive line,
and it's still not working.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
And the respondents have spoken, sixty six percent say the
offense is the most disappointing side of the football for
the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
How about this poll duing.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
Pulling up two, which team do you have more faith
in winning?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (26:41):
On the road you dub in Happy Valley or the
Seahawks in Santa Clara.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Oh, boyle, boyle, boy Well, the Seahawks are not going
to be as big as dogs as the as the
as the Huskies will be. I mean, obviously, the NFL
is different than college I knows a lot more parody
in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I means easily the Seahawks person.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Yeah, I'd probably stay the winning or covering is at winning?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Okay, I'd say the Hawks. The Hawks.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
I've had a tough time on this one, and so
the respondents. But you dub actually won the vote fifty
six percent. Hawks were at forty four.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Let's uh, let's read uh. Let's just let's uh say,
let's discover this like we're in high school. Let's discover it.
Let's let's discuss this again. Coming up at six, before
we hear from Jed Fish. Brian Schmetzer is going to
join next. Brian Schmetzer is going to be sitting around
just picking as you know what for two weeks because
the sounders aren't playing, nothing to do and this this
is crazy, right. We'll talk to Brian next on ninety
three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Live from the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio.
Now back to Softie and Dick on your Home for
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Speaker 7 (27:47):
Alright, back here at the five twenty baring girl. You
know who should be here with us right now? Brian
freaking damn right, having a beer, nothing else to do
for the next six months before the semi start. Brian,
where are you right now? Why don't you swing over
to Bell you join us here at the five twenty.
We'll get your cosamigos.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Well, I know because I've been listening to your show
and I went online and the five twenty Bar and
Grill has good tequila choices.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
Man, I'd love to be there.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Well, we're going to be here next week, so you
got like six months off before your next match. I
wanted to get your butt over here, but Hey, congratulations.
First of all, man, give us a thought on the
way this went.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Another penalty kicks shootout win.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
I had to rely on penalty kicks after giving up
an own goal though in the ninety third when Houston
tied the game. What was the locker room like after
that roller coaster you played the air day?
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Well, a locker room afterwards was great. But you know,
I'm sitting here in my kitchen watching the game actually,
and man, I'm watching after we scored the goal, after
we finally broke through to go up one nothing, and
I thought, you know, at that point.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
The game was over.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
But man, that was a pretty crummy couple of minutes
that we let them kind of back in the game
and couldn't win the ball and they kicked the ball
down and are defending and just wasn't a good two minutes.
So I've got some I've got some stuff that I
want to show the guys tomorrow because their first day
of training is tomorrow. But you know, it's it was
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great afterwards because we ended up getting the job done
in penalties.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
All right, show us first, what are you going to
show them from?
Speaker 6 (29:25):
I'm going to balance it out, dick of the positive.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
And the negative.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
You can't these days, you can't, you know, kill them
all the time.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
But you know there were some good stuff there.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Obviously, I was happy with Christian's goal for US. I
mean that was a well taken goal and knew who
getting the assists.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
So yeah, some good two.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Well you just brought up. There's like five follow up
questions to what you just said there. Number one, what
you said there about the way you talk to players.
Can coaches talk to players today the same way they
did thirty years ago in your opinion?
Speaker 6 (29:58):
No, no chance. I mean back in my day, I
mean you had to survive. I mean, coaches were in
your faith, in your grill. You know, they did whatever
they could to get you motivated.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
It's way different now.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
And then I mean there's there's a positive for that though,
that you've learned lessons though in a win, and you
can go back to your guys and say, look, you
guys think you've arrived. You haven't done Jack squat, look
at the way you played. Yeah, you won this series,
but you play like that again next series.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We're done.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
Well. The thing the thing is softy.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
The ace in my pocket is just film because.
Speaker 10 (30:37):
I don't have to say any words.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
I can just show them and they watch it and
they can see for them to selves if they're good
or bad.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
How much is luck involved in pks?
Speaker 8 (30:48):
I mean, you've got you've only had one PK victory
in the playoffs and the history of the Sounders, and
you get two in a week.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I mean, it's just bizarre. How much is it luck?
How much is it skill?
Speaker 6 (30:59):
I say, Dick, We've put a renewed focus on set
pieces this year, you know, because our lack of scoring goals,
so we need to do creative things, better things, you know,
all the little margins you know, and penalty kicks are
basically a set piece, and we've been training the set
pieces a little bit differently than we have in the past.
Speaker 10 (31:21):
We get both teams.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
When we're in our eleven v eleven scrimmage day and
we set it up like a real penalty kick shootout,
and there's a little more pressure. There's peer pressure because
they don't want to miss in front of their peers,
and so I think that has helped us. And look
our penalty kicks down in Houston, they were lights out.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Yeah, I'm reading all these stories online about Hector Herrera
getting ejected. Yeah, spitting on a referee. I mean, did
you see that while it happened? And have you ever
seen a player do anything like that before?
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Well, way back in the day again, thirty years ago,
maybe there were some more of that. I think our
sport has done a good job of trying to eliminate
some of that, some of that bad stuff that you know,
Hooligan's back in England and stuff like that.
Speaker 10 (32:09):
But I watched it. I didn't see it live, but
I watched it on tape.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
I mean, that's a clear red card and it's a
shame because you know, they didn't.
Speaker 10 (32:17):
Pick his option up. I just read that.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
So Hector Horrera is gone from Houston and I don't
think it was just that incident, but it kind of,
you know, ends his time in Houston on kind of.
Speaker 10 (32:28):
A sour note.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
Well, Brian, you wanted in two instead of three. That
gives even more time to get ready for the Western
Conference semi. So talk about Jordan and Albert and if
you expect both of them to be back in two.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
And a half weeks, Yeah, for sure, we'll have both
of them back. Jordan was already pretty close. Alberts was
an interesting one. Just because it kind of just came
out of the blues, like his hip wasn't tracking right,
and you know, they.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
Were digging around in there to kind of release it.
They couldn't get it to release.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
But he's feeling better, so both of them will be
ready for the for the conference semifinal.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
Well, Brian Schmetcher is with us, and obviously we like
to make fun of how long you got to sit
around for. But I mean, if I were you, i'dn't
want to be out there as soon as possible. I mean,
I don't know, is there a positive to this? Would
you rather get this thing going asap? Because this international
break thing, which drives me freaking crazy. There's nothing you
can do about it, but it drives me crazy, kills
momentum for the entire league.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
I think.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Yeah, I don't like it either. I'd much rather be playing.
I mean, I'm so bored. I'm listening to Jackson's sounder weekly.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
I mean it is for people who are bored, so
that's fairly only.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Oh wow, good for you.
Speaker 10 (33:43):
I am easing. You do a great job.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
I listened to your one on October thirtieth, when Jamie
Watson was Softy.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
I swear to god, this guy Jamie.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Watson, who's the national commentator, was just fawning all over Jackson,
saying how he gets all of information, his information for
the broadcast from Jackson, and what a great guy Jackson is.
I mean it was pretty complimentary.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Wow, who's this Jackson you're speaking of? Yes, we don't
know that. Yeah, Brian, let me ask you this. You
ever hear his show and go, this guy's got no clue.
Speaker 10 (34:19):
Okay, let's get back to the real business at hand. Yes, Sofie,
I'd love to be playing a little sooner it is.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
It is a long break, and look, we're all going
to watch LAFC and Vancouver on Friday and then we'll
start really digging into training and tactics.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, I find this way more fun. By the way, yes,
of course, do.
Speaker 8 (34:39):
You watch that match with a rooting interest?
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Well, of course, because look, we we haven't played well.
It kind of sucked against LFC, and then you know,
Vancouver would mean we get a home game, so for
sure we're going to root for Vancouver.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
What would you rather hear five hundred times in a
row Jackson's radio show where the Cars Kids commercial over
and over again, don't answer that question. Why is Vancouver, though, Brian,
finding so much success against these guys you think where
you've had kind of a tough year. I mean, can
you look at what Vancouver's doing and kind of rip
off some of that.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
If LAFC does advance.
Speaker 6 (35:16):
Well, we're actually sending some scouts down to the game
to watch that game live. We already get the game film,
but we're going all out to see what Vancouver has
done to be successful against him. Obviously, the game up
in Vancouver with a really good score line for them
three nothing. So we got to try and figure out
a way how to you know, create some good scoring
chances and actually put the ball in the back of
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the net against LAFC.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
If that's the team we're playing well.
Speaker 8 (35:42):
And also, you know, with the back to back penalty
kick wins for you guys, if you do face LAFC,
as I give you a little more confidence in tight
games going late against.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Those guys, well for sure, I mean we would take
our chances in penalty kicks, but you know, obviously we'd
want to try and again get a good perform, try
and score some goals.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
Yeah, I love it all right, man, You're gonna watch
the Dogs this weekend at five o'clock Penn State Saturday.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
You're not working, so you can have time to watch
some football.
Speaker 10 (36:09):
Yeah, I watched the Dogs. I'll be on the positive
side of.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Things with the Seahawks. I mean, we got to get
them back on the schneid.
Speaker 10 (36:17):
And I watched some of the Kraken game last night,
and you.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Know we're gonna get our sports teams going here, no
no doubt.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
All right, Well, you're leading the way. I mean, you're
the best thing going right now.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
You are the best thing. If you If you fall apart,
we're screwed, man.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
So the entire city is relying on you to get
your heck together and keep this thing going.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
No pressure. Just make a run for us.
Speaker 6 (36:37):
All right, all right, I'll try, all right man.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Yeah, Brian Schitzer with us. I gotta have that drop
for the show. I'm so bored.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
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Speaker 5 (01:30):
How are he? Sounds like you're not in the studio tonight.
Speaker 7 (01:33):
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Speaker 5 (01:37):
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Speaker 3 (01:56):
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Speaker 5 (01:57):
I think that's great. You keep around the Hall of
Coaching and uh make it make it a little easy
on him. I like that. Mike smart and you're smart
to do it by his wish.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Yeah. Unfortunately, he's in Portugal right now, so he won't
even be here today. But we're here today and then
I gotta fly to Penn State tomorrow for the Hoskey game. Yeah, well,
we got to make sure we do our diligence, saying,
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the with the bar. So anyway, it's great to hear
your voice, man, before we launch into a lot of
stuff happening with the Seahawks. I want to go back
to the game that you did Monday night. I'm I'm
(02:29):
I'm literally yelling at the TV go for two for
Tampa Bay and they went for the extra point and
they immediately give up. The touchdown was so predictable that
the outcome went the way it did. Why did Tampa
Bay not go for too And did you think that
was the right call?
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Well, yeah, I think we I was doing with Kurt Warner,
and I believe he said I'd probably go for two
you're on the road. I think the conditions, Todd Bowle
said afterwards, we're a concern. I don't know. I mean,
I'm not sure I did. Maybe had more faith in
his defense that they would make a hold and that
the offense to get it back and they'd be able
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to get a field go and get out of there.
Or maybe they just felt coming back from the deficit
that they were going through that they, you know, just
to tie him and then to reassess where they were
was the better move. You know, it's you could probably
put ten coaches in a room and in this case
it may be six to four go for two, but
(03:28):
I think a lot of them would probably have gone
for just the game tying extra point as well. So
I've I mean, I don't know how you look at it.
I will say that the Buccaneers are a strong team.
Their quarterback is playing at a high level there without
their two top receivers, and they give the defending champions
on their turf in bad weather on the road, a
very difficult game.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
No question.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
The other piece of that game I want to ask
you about, and it turned out to be not a
big deal, I guess when it's all said and done.
But you're in the stadium when Patrick Mahomes hobbles off
after hitting the turf with what.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Looked like an ankle knee.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
I don't know what it was, but can you give
us an idea of what it's like to be in
that stadium when that guy gets hurt?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Well, it was pretty quiet and rightly. So he was
down after he ran and he had to be hoisted
up to his feet, and you could sell. You could
tell by the look on his face that something was
not right. And these non contact injuries, these soft tissue Injuri,
these non contact injuries are just so scary because nine
(04:34):
times out of ten it's a significant issue. And that's
what you were thinking. Did he mess up his ankle,
which it looked like he did. Did he pop an achilles,
which he easily could. What was there something more nefarious
at work here with regard to the injury? And it
just turned out that he had just kind of come
on it wrong. The leg did not flex the way
(04:56):
it needed to or cushion the way that ankle needed
to come down. He may have been going a little
bit gingerly because the turf is wet. He was getting
rid of the ball. I mean he's being chased. I
mean he get getting close to the sideline. There's a
lot of play here, but he clearly came back from it.
Andy reads it after the game goes. I don't know
what he's got in his ankles, and all his ankles
(05:17):
are constructed, but he just he continues to defy medicine,
because most guys would be out and hobbling, and he
just goes right back in the game and acts like
nothing's happened. Now, he has had ankle injuries throughout his career,
not unlike Steph Curry in the NBA with the Golden
State Warriors, not as significant, but they've been there, so
something clearly to keep an eye in. I think he
(05:38):
works on this diligently during the off season so that
this is not an issue. But he's a lot of
quick twitch and if you're a quick twitch guy, your
ankles are under a great deal of stress.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I am not a quick twitch guy,
so I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
I was just going to say that opposite of you,
that complete other direction of you, and you know what,
I'll throw myself in that category to you and I
are not quick twitch people.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you, I mean, what do
you do? What do you do to keep in shape
over the offseason?
Speaker 7 (06:07):
You play pick up basketball, the guys are you in
a beer softball league?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
What do you do to kind of get those competitive
juices flow in? Pal?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I walk with my wife, That's what I do. And
I think what he does is he goes through We've
seen this on TV, a very extensive offseason, individual core work,
kind of unconventional, different kinds of ways to strengthen your body.
And here, let me just say this real quick about
the Chiefs and Mahomes. I think they're the most interesting
(06:37):
team aside from Baltimore in the NFL. They are winning
with new parts in different ways, and the quarterback doesn't
even remotely resemble what he was when he came into
the league. He is more game manager and winner than
he is. Generational arm talent with unconventional ways of throwing
(06:59):
the ball are just something we have not seen in
the league. He's gone from that to now, you know,
picking and poking his way down field with short passes,
relying on yards after catch after he gets the guys
in space, finding pockets of ope. He's settling for seven yards,
not having to go for twenty seven thirty seven every
(07:19):
time he goes down the field, like he's playing in
a different way. That is just I think very interesting.
The offense is being called different, and I think it's
going to continue to evolve with DeAndre Hopkins and their
new running back Kareem Hunt.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
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Speaker 7 (07:45):
Hey, dude, the Lions walked into Green Bay and walked
out with a win, which doesn't happen very often, seven
to one, twenty four fourteen over Green Bay. Are we
ready now to just simply proclaim the Lions the team
to beat without question in the NFC?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yeah, I would agree that the strongest, most physical, as
well coached as any I'm not ready to say he's
better than McVeigh. I'm not ready to say he's better
than Shanahan. But clearly what he's done and the turnaround
has been remarkable. You know, I don't think this Jared
Goff gets enough credit. He just here. Here's what's going
(08:25):
great for golf is he is not carrying the burden
of the entire offense. In Los Angeles, so much came
through him because all they did was throw. Are they
threw most of the time in Detroit. The balance there,
as it is with Washington, the balance with the Lions
is just eye opening. And the good teams have got
(08:47):
at Baltimore, Kansas City, Detroit, Washington, they've got great balance.
And anyone that thought that running backs were out of
vogue and didn't have a place and where like you
put out the past year, there's so wrong. You need
to run the ball as well as you throw it,
and that's where the NFL is right now. But it's
evolving from all passing, which is great, but the more reliable,
(09:08):
tried and true is to play the complimentary football. You
run the ball, you rest your defense, you sprinkle it
with passes, and you set up with a lot of
play action. You rely on your defense, and Detroit's defense
and the Chiefs defense and Baltimore's defense to a degree
it's not great, but they've got playmakers. Washington's defense pretty good.
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Like like complimentary football, they're all playing it, but no
one is solely just passing the ball. Is you might
have seen four or five six years ago. Now it
is a lot of balance, and that really is the
word for success in the National Football Like balance on
offense is just so valuable and incredibly effective.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Right now, Well, there's a lot of Seahawks fans listening
right now, Kevin, that are not in their head.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, uh huh, uh huh.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Because the Seahawks right now, we're number one of the
un in passing attempts at three hundred and forty three,
yet only have a quarterback rating of eighty nine or
a passer rating of eighty nine, and the offense is
getting clocked here in Seattle. They lost to the Rams
again over the weekend. Gino through three interceptions, including two
inside the ten yard line, one of them taken back
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for a pick six by the Rams over the weekend.
I mean, you saw these guys a couple of weeks ago,
and ever since the three and oh start, they've won
a game.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And now they're four and five. What do you what
do you see happening out here?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Well, four and five is great. Just let's get let's
get past Thanksgiving and be close to five hundred and
then in that division, Look how even all those teams
are right, I mean, they're all right there, so so
they're very much in it. Let me ask you a quick question,
walk has is he injured? Is he nicked up? Or
is he not?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
He's good diet or what he's good?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
But he ran? Yeah, I don't know what's going on then,
because when I saw him in Detroit, and that was
the last time I saw him after watching him after
watching the team win in Seattle over Miami up there
for CBS, and the next week we had him in
Detroit and he was unstoppable and the complimentary football was terrific.
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So I don't know what's going on and what's happening
to Kenneth Walker, who I think, when he's on top
of his game, is as dangerous or running back as
you're gonna find. But clearly something's that I don't know
if it's your offensive line. I quite frankly now at
the NBA starting, I've not seen as much Seahawk fit
football from Afar as I probably should. I worry about
the games I've got, and I've got four different teams
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every weekend, and I'm really really riled in on that.
I's I can't. I will tell you. I read a
couple of headlines, you see a couple of a couple
of replays. I keep track of Smith. I think he's
a very interesting player. But Walker, I think if you
can't run the ball in this league, you're in trouble.
So I don't know where that is with the Seahawks.
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If you cannot run, you are in trouble.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Well tell ya.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
I mean, first of all, he was banged up. He's
good now. He was banged up for a little bit,
but his back. He had twenty five carries against the Rams,
Kevin for eighty three yards in that game and caught
three more balls for twenty four yards. He was well
over one hundred yards in total offense. But the offensive
line here is just awful. I mean, they got Abe
Lucas banged up, George George Fan came back and lasted
like seventeen snaps and got hurt again in this in
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this game against the Rams. And I guess I'm just
trying to figure out why it's been so freaking hard
for teams to build offensive lines or is that just
a problem that we have out here.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
No, it's all over the league now. Listen, Rams are
a team that's rising, right, They're getting guys back, They're
getting they're getting guys back on their line. They got
the two receivers involved again. We were both were out
for the first part of the season. Kyron Williams is
a force. The quarterback is smart and you take away
maybe some of the top glittering names at the top
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of the NFC quarterback list, and Stafford is still as
effective as anybody went needed. Rams are a good team. Welcome,
we know that.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Now.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I don't know what it is about offensive lineman it is.
I will tell you this. I think it is more
important to have the same guys, have continuity of differing abilities,
regardless of where you were drafted or undrafted, how you
got there. If you can start the same line game
after game after game, if you've run with that line
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through training camp, those are usually the offensive lines that thrive.
It is more about continuity, right, and chemistry and covering
for your brother and helping on the line, and and
and and just knowing the nuances of what that line does.
That is almost if you're if you're juggling technicles every game,
and and a and a guard every game and different
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players are in there. That that the stress of an
offensive line is is incalculable because that's the one group
as a fivesome that's in there literally every play, and
the more they play together, even if they're varying talent,
it's always better. And and and and I'm not sure
I couldn't give you the specifics on the line, but
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if they're shuffling guys in and out all the time,
that's a recipe for disaster and it's just no continuity.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
No, that's exactly what they're doing. I mean, I mean
you just literally described it to a t. I mean,
they they're trying to get away from that. They they're
they're going with Anthony Bradford now as their right guard.
But that was just last week against the Rams, and then,
like we said, George Fan got banged up again. Kevin
Harlan's with us and and Kevin before we find out
where will.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Kevin be for TV on Sunday? I do want to
ask you.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
As an NBA guy, by the way, what's your what's
your NBA schedule this week?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Uh? We we were off yesterday because the league goes dark.
League did not play a game yep on Election Tuesday.
So our next game let me thank here real quick.
I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You need a secretary, you need an assistant man.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
No, I know, I know, I know. I'm truly a
day by day guy. We have the Dallas Mavericks at
the Golden State Warriors. Warriors are surprising people. If had
some injuries, and yet they were five and one. I'm
not sure what they've done here last a couple of days,
but I've got Dallas at Golden State on Tuesday night
for GMG.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Got you.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Yeah, they won last night, actually Golden State did, so
they're six and one right now. But Kevin, I want
to ask you about just kind of what people are
saying around the league about the Joel Embiid suspension. You know,
this writer in Philadelphia brings up his dead brother and
his son, and Embiid gets in his face and he's angry,
you know, justifiably in my opinion, angry, shoves the guy
(15:31):
and now is out a million bucks in a three
game suspensions.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
What's kind of the buzzer on the NBA about that situation?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Well, you know, the guy for the guy that writes
for the Inquirer. I've not met him, I've rarely read him.
I don't know about it. I did have some people
tell me he is kind of an agitator and and
Embid is an easy target. He appears to be constantly
taking games off. The team is already deep in the
hole if he's only going to play sixty games because
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they want to wait for the play if they may
not make the playoffs because that him playing sixty games
may not be good enough. And uh, he's making a
lot of money. And yet it seems like all the
city has done is wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait for him to be the player they thought he
would be. And he's been closed, he's got the MVPs,
he's done. But but the team can never get deep
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into the playoffs. And it's always because he's nicked up
or injured. So the load management word is coming out
a lot. The league has had no pizazz right the
league is I don't know, last year they had a
little bomentum. We're and here's here's another thing too about
the NBA. We're getting to the end of these big
name players Lebron, Steph Curry. The these big name players
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are are are getting old Kevin Durant like like, and
when that group goes, the next group is the embiids,
the Devin Bookers, maybe you know Anderson up in Minnesota,
like like Doncic, who's Who's Who's not a flashy player
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and certainly does not have the charisma that some of
these other guys do. The league isn't kind of an
interesting situation. Before it was it was Bird and Magic,
and then it was uh, Michael Jordan, and then it
was Kobe and and and then it was Lebron and
and now I don't know who the torch is gonna
go to, but there doesn't seem to be like an
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electrifying player that is so captivating that you've got to
what yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
No doubt, all right before you go, here we go.
We got like a minute left. This is perfect. Uh,
this is what we call filler in the business. By
the way, it's time for another edition of Where will
Kevin Be?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
For TV? On Sunday.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
We know you got the Dolphins rams Monday. I'm gonna
say Eagles Cowboys is gonna go to Uh to Toromo's crew.
That's always a big one. I'm gonna guess, you know,
what the hell with it. I'm gonna just go with
the over reliable chiefs are back home. You live in
Kansas City, bosses, do you favor? You sleep in your
own bed, you wear your own pajamas, You eat breakfast
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from your own ball. On Sunday morning, you get in
your tricycle and you drive over to Arrowhead for Denver,
Kansas City Sunday am I.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Right, yes, how about that baby?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Look who knows what he's talking about? Look who?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
How do you guys get the game? It's a split
national so I think we get I think we have
everything west of the Mississippi on that broadcast. So yeah,
you'll you'll see it. And the Chiefs are eight. No,
they've won fourteen consecutive games, including the playoffs, longest in
team history. They're doing it in a weird way. They've
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had a lot of one score wins, and they're defending
a title and they are right on track to make it.
There Again, I don't think they're the best team in
the AFC. The record said that otherwise. I think there
are a couple other teams that are probably better. Right now.
They're playing winning football, and there's not a team in
football that would would not trade positions with it. You
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play winning football in this league, you don't care how
it's done, you don't care the margin will win. You're
playing winning football. It matters, and it builds momentum and competence,
and the Chiefs have all of those boxes checked right now.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Kevin, you're the man, great stuff as always, you already
brought it again bring it again next Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
All right, enjoy it and we'll talk that pass about
all right?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I find it five talk paill.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
All right, man, Kevin Harlan with us. We're gonna break
a lot more to come from the five to twenty
bar and grill on a busy Wednesday right here on
ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Live from the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio.
Now back to Softie and Dick Gone, your home for
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three kJ R FM.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
You sure about that if there's an earthquake over there,
we'd field over.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
Here as the earthquake flies. We're only like ten miles
from Jackson.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
The Squally quake that we felt, Uh, was that twenty
years ago or so?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You're telling me that you would have felt that sitting
right here in absolutely Okay.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
I felt it at my house. I felt I was
farther away from the station than we are right calling.
What's an earthquake specialist called seismologists?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (20:17):
I'm no seismologist, but I'll take your word for it. Man, Yes,
I mean you're making a compelling case.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I mean unless it's a tiny, tiny, tiny earth quill.
I mean somebody could have farted to in the office. Man, Wow,
is that what Jackson felt? Bucky there?
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Oh the building the biggest dude I can imagine.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Right, I'm not gonna say, hey, it's actually there actually
may have farted. I think that.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
I think that Sarge and Rich are the only two
people in this uh building.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Right now, I'll tell you what Serge needs. You know
what Serget needs? A neck endorsement? A neck endorsement. What
do you mean, no, Sarge?
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Yes, I know, Sarge.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Oh you need he needs to like devise.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
To give him a free I went to the next
door got the latest version. If you saw the guy
that I'm talking about, you know, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
He's the opposite of Steve Grogan. Yes, he's the opposite
of Mert hurt and hands. He has no neck? Whatso?
I haven't noticed that?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
But now you put me in that into my.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Body looks like an orange with a gup dropper. Wow.
I won't be able to get that out of my
brain now when I see him.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Sorry, Sorge, I mean a kid because I love a kid,
because I love for crying out loud. All right, Hey, Jackson.
Dick says, we have dueling poles on the internet. Oh
that's weird at Dick Fane's Twitter account. What do you
got their big felt.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Dueling poles start with the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Right which side of the ball? Am I am? I
ever oppositiz Hawks? I am optimistic Seahawks conversation.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
They're making it very easy by losing four games at
home in twenty seven days for me to be a
little negative about the football team.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Every hour, it's just like this, and that they can't
run the ball, and what the hell are they doing?
And we suck and everybody sucks.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
When I hate it.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
People are sitting in traffic right now with a more
positive thought about the Seahawks right now or a more
negative thought about I'm a glass half full guy, So
I say positive. I I didn't ask what you were
turning around. I was asking what Joe from Renton is thinking.
Is he stopped in four O fives?
Speaker 7 (22:17):
These guys right here, Yes, this guy's a listener over here.
The guy enjoyed his chicken wings.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Hey guys, you guys a question.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
You have more positive vibe for the Seahawks or a
negative vibe right now? At negative yeah, so the barts
a negative master. Uh see that guy says positive.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Oh, there you go. There's one out of three, one
out of three.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
Which side of the ball has been more disappointing to you?
Okay this season, offense or defense? How the respondent's answered,
and how would you respond to Jackson?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Then I know how the respondents answered because it's your
Twitter account and your minions on your people.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It's definitely offense for you. And then number two.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Then we just had this conversation like a month ago
and we all said defense.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It was defense a month ago.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
One month ago, we're literally sitting here saying what's wrong
with the Seahawks? Yes, and okay, Jackson le was definitely
the defense. Now it's definitely the offense. I mean, we're
literally doing what you hate that people do, changing our
mind every five minutes.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Well, what's crazy is actually, statistically.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
The offense is better.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
Well, the offense is better. Yes, they're fourteenth in scoring.
Last year they were seventeenth, the year before that they
were tenth. So their offense is basically the exact average
of what they've been each of the last two years.
Whereas the defense, listen to this, they're twenty fourth. Last
year they were twenty fourth. Two years ago they were
twenty fifth, And I thought Mike McDonald was supposed to
take a twenty fourth ranked defense and turn it into
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a top half defense or else.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Why was Pete Carroll fires See?
Speaker 7 (23:46):
I just expected more of a improvement, quicker on the
defense side of the ball because of the head coach.
I know they may have better talent on the offensive
side of the ball, but the offensive line is just
effing everything up on offense right, fucking it up.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
And you can say the defense has been banged up.
That's certainly fair.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Up until a couple weeks ago they were dealing with
some massive injuries. But I'm telling you, I absolutely remember
Jackson saying, Jackson, you said this thought the defense was
a disappointment. Well, and now it's the offense exactly because
I think it has flipped. I think we've seen better.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
I mean the Rams game, that's a way better defensive performance,
even with Puka throwing a punch and getting himself ejected,
like they did a great job on Stafford and Kiren Williams.
So credit to Mike McDonald. He shored that up. The
problem is the offense has gotten so much worse.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
That's right, that's right. And in the San Francisco game too, Jackson.
I leave the San Francisco game thinking, well, the offense
just hung the D out to dry and eventually the
D ran out of gas. That's kind of how I
look at the San Francisco game. And then you're exactly
right about the Rams game. I mean, that was one
half of a Seahawks team playing it at least a
B plus a minus level and the other half playing it.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
D plus ninth in total offense in the NFL. I
don't care about your birds, okay.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Right now, like the nine, because I think they started
the season really well.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Right well, no, they're actually moving the ball. They're just
not scoring. I mean that's the problem. That's like I said,
they had one hundred ninety three yards on three drives
from the what I say mark three minute mark of
the second quarter to the ten minute mark of the
fourth quarter. They should have scored twenty one and then
Gino threw a pick six. I think yards are important
because it shows that you're getting in position.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
To score points. Well, they're just not finishing drives.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
They're having the same problem right now that the Huskies
were having a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But you didn't give the Huskies the benefit of.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
The doubts a couple of weeks ago, So why are
you giving the Sea I'm just saying the potentials there.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
They got to finish drives. I mean, you're you're right.
Unless you're scoring, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
But if they were twenty fifth in total offense and
not even putting themselves in position to finish drives, it
wouldn't matter. I think there's a hell of a lot
of potential with the Seahawks offense. I think there's tons
of potential where just like I think there's tons of
potential with the Husky offense. And if they finished drives
and like they did on Saturday versus.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
USC, you'll see it.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
But this offensive line, I mean, guys, at least the
Huskies have a freaking excuse.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
They lost their entire line from last year.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
The Seahawks brought back Charles Cross, they brought back Abe Lucas,
they brought back Big o'lu. They signed Connor Williams, they
brought in Lincoln Tomlinson, They drafted Christian Haynes, they re
signed George Fans.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I mean, my god, they went out.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
And made a ton of moves to fix the offensive line,
and it's still not working.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
And the respondents have spoken, sixty six percent say the
offense is the most disappointing side of the football for
the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
How about this poll duing.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
Pulling up two, which team do you have more faith
in winning?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (26:41):
On the road you dub in Happy Valley or the
Seahawks in Santa Clara.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Oh, boyle, boyle, boy Well, the Seahawks are not going
to be as big as dogs as the as the
as the Huskies will be. I mean, obviously, the NFL
is different than college I knows a lot more parody
in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I means easily the Seahawks person.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
Yeah, I'd probably stay the winning or covering is at winning?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Okay, I'd say the Hawks. The Hawks.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
I've had a tough time on this one, and so
the respondents. But you dub actually won the vote fifty
six percent. Hawks were at forty four.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Let's uh, let's read uh. Let's just let's uh say,
let's discover this like we're in high school. Let's discover it.
Let's let's discuss this again. Coming up at six, before
we hear from Jed Fish. Brian Schmetzer is going to
join next. Brian Schmetzer is going to be sitting around
just picking as you know what for two weeks because
the sounders aren't playing, nothing to do and this this
is crazy, right. We'll talk to Brian next on ninety
three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Live from the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio.
Now back to Softie and Dick on your Home for
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Speaker 7 (27:47):
Alright, back here at the five twenty baring girl. You
know who should be here with us right now? Brian
freaking damn right, having a beer, nothing else to do
for the next six months before the semi start. Brian,
where are you right now? Why don't you swing over
to Bell you join us here at the five twenty.
We'll get your cosamigos.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Well, I know because I've been listening to your show
and I went online and the five twenty Bar and
Grill has good tequila choices.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
Man, I'd love to be there.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Well, we're going to be here next week, so you
got like six months off before your next match. I
wanted to get your butt over here, but Hey, congratulations.
First of all, man, give us a thought on the
way this went.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Another penalty kicks shootout win.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
I had to rely on penalty kicks after giving up
an own goal though in the ninety third when Houston
tied the game. What was the locker room like after
that roller coaster you played the air day?
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Well, a locker room afterwards was great. But you know,
I'm sitting here in my kitchen watching the game actually,
and man, I'm watching after we scored the goal, after
we finally broke through to go up one nothing, and
I thought, you know, at that point.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
The game was over.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
But man, that was a pretty crummy couple of minutes
that we let them kind of back in the game
and couldn't win the ball and they kicked the ball
down and are defending and just wasn't a good two minutes.
So I've got some I've got some stuff that I
want to show the guys tomorrow because their first day
of training is tomorrow. But you know, it's it was
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great afterwards because we ended up getting the job done
in penalties.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
All right, show us first, what are you going to
show them from?
Speaker 6 (29:25):
I'm going to balance it out, dick of the positive.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
And the negative.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
You can't these days, you can't, you know, kill them
all the time.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
But you know there were some good stuff there.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Obviously, I was happy with Christian's goal for US. I
mean that was a well taken goal and knew who
getting the assists.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
So yeah, some good two.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Well you just brought up. There's like five follow up
questions to what you just said there. Number one, what
you said there about the way you talk to players.
Can coaches talk to players today the same way they
did thirty years ago in your opinion?
Speaker 6 (29:58):
No, no chance. I mean back in my day, I
mean you had to survive. I mean, coaches were in
your faith, in your grill. You know, they did whatever
they could to get you motivated.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
It's way different now.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
And then I mean there's there's a positive for that though,
that you've learned lessons though in a win, and you
can go back to your guys and say, look, you
guys think you've arrived. You haven't done Jack squat, look
at the way you played. Yeah, you won this series,
but you play like that again next series.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We're done.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
Well. The thing the thing is softy.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
The ace in my pocket is just film because.
Speaker 10 (30:37):
I don't have to say any words.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
I can just show them and they watch it and
they can see for them to selves if they're good
or bad.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
How much is luck involved in pks?
Speaker 8 (30:48):
I mean, you've got you've only had one PK victory
in the playoffs and the history of the Sounders, and
you get two in a week.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I mean, it's just bizarre. How much is it luck?
How much is it skill?
Speaker 6 (30:59):
I say, Dick, We've put a renewed focus on set
pieces this year, you know, because our lack of scoring goals,
so we need to do creative things, better things, you know,
all the little margins you know, and penalty kicks are
basically a set piece, and we've been training the set
pieces a little bit differently than we have in the past.
Speaker 10 (31:21):
We get both teams.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
When we're in our eleven v eleven scrimmage day and
we set it up like a real penalty kick shootout,
and there's a little more pressure. There's peer pressure because
they don't want to miss in front of their peers,
and so I think that has helped us. And look
our penalty kicks down in Houston, they were lights out.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
Yeah, I'm reading all these stories online about Hector Herrera
getting ejected. Yeah, spitting on a referee. I mean, did
you see that while it happened? And have you ever
seen a player do anything like that before?
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Well, way back in the day again, thirty years ago,
maybe there were some more of that. I think our
sport has done a good job of trying to eliminate
some of that, some of that bad stuff that you know,
Hooligan's back in England and stuff like that.
Speaker 10 (32:09):
But I watched it. I didn't see it live, but
I watched it on tape.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
I mean, that's a clear red card and it's a
shame because you know, they didn't.
Speaker 10 (32:17):
Pick his option up. I just read that.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
So Hector Horrera is gone from Houston and I don't
think it was just that incident, but it kind of,
you know, ends his time in Houston on kind of.
Speaker 10 (32:28):
A sour note.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
Well, Brian, you wanted in two instead of three. That
gives even more time to get ready for the Western
Conference semi. So talk about Jordan and Albert and if
you expect both of them to be back in two.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
And a half weeks, Yeah, for sure, we'll have both
of them back. Jordan was already pretty close. Alberts was
an interesting one. Just because it kind of just came
out of the blues, like his hip wasn't tracking right,
and you know, they.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
Were digging around in there to kind of release it.
They couldn't get it to release.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
But he's feeling better, so both of them will be
ready for the for the conference semifinal.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
Well, Brian Schmetcher is with us, and obviously we like
to make fun of how long you got to sit
around for. But I mean, if I were you, i'dn't
want to be out there as soon as possible. I mean,
I don't know, is there a positive to this? Would
you rather get this thing going asap? Because this international
break thing, which drives me freaking crazy. There's nothing you
can do about it, but it drives me crazy, kills
momentum for the entire league.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
I think.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Yeah, I don't like it either. I'd much rather be playing.
I mean, I'm so bored. I'm listening to Jackson's sounder weekly.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
I mean it is for people who are bored, so
that's fairly only.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Oh wow, good for you.
Speaker 10 (33:43):
I am easing. You do a great job.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
I listened to your one on October thirtieth, when Jamie
Watson was Softy.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
I swear to god, this guy Jamie.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Watson, who's the national commentator, was just fawning all over Jackson,
saying how he gets all of information, his information for
the broadcast from Jackson, and what a great guy Jackson is.
I mean it was pretty complimentary.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Wow, who's this Jackson you're speaking of? Yes, we don't
know that. Yeah, Brian, let me ask you this. You
ever hear his show and go, this guy's got no clue.
Speaker 10 (34:19):
Okay, let's get back to the real business at hand. Yes, Sofie,
I'd love to be playing a little sooner it is.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
It is a long break, and look, we're all going
to watch LAFC and Vancouver on Friday and then we'll
start really digging into training and tactics.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, I find this way more fun. By the way, yes,
of course, do.
Speaker 8 (34:39):
You watch that match with a rooting interest?
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Well, of course, because look, we we haven't played well.
It kind of sucked against LFC, and then you know,
Vancouver would mean we get a home game, so for
sure we're going to root for Vancouver.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
What would you rather hear five hundred times in a
row Jackson's radio show where the Cars Kids commercial over
and over again, don't answer that question. Why is Vancouver, though, Brian,
finding so much success against these guys you think where
you've had kind of a tough year. I mean, can
you look at what Vancouver's doing and kind of rip
off some of that.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
If LAFC does advance.
Speaker 6 (35:16):
Well, we're actually sending some scouts down to the game
to watch that game live. We already get the game film,
but we're going all out to see what Vancouver has
done to be successful against him. Obviously, the game up
in Vancouver with a really good score line for them
three nothing. So we got to try and figure out
a way how to you know, create some good scoring
chances and actually put the ball in the back of
(35:38):
the net against LAFC.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
If that's the team we're playing well.
Speaker 8 (35:42):
And also, you know, with the back to back penalty
kick wins for you guys, if you do face LAFC,
as I give you a little more confidence in tight
games going late against.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Those guys, well for sure, I mean we would take
our chances in penalty kicks, but you know, obviously we'd
want to try and again get a good perform, try
and score some goals.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
Yeah, I love it all right, man, You're gonna watch
the Dogs this weekend at five o'clock Penn State Saturday.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
You're not working, so you can have time to watch
some football.
Speaker 10 (36:09):
Yeah, I watched the Dogs. I'll be on the positive
side of.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Things with the Seahawks. I mean, we got to get
them back on the schneid.
Speaker 10 (36:17):
And I watched some of the Kraken game last night,
and you.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Know we're gonna get our sports teams going here, no
no doubt.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
All right, Well, you're leading the way. I mean, you're
the best thing going right now.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
You are the best thing. If you If you fall apart,
we're screwed, man.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
So the entire city is relying on you to get
your heck together and keep this thing going.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
No pressure. Just make a run for us.
Speaker 6 (36:37):
All right, all right, I'll try, all right man.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Yeah, Brian Schitzer with us. I gotta have that drop
for the show. I'm so bored.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I'm tuning into Jacks and soccers though,
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