January 16, 2026 • 37 mins
Hugh Millen joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain for the hour to dive deep into the Seahawks-49ers playoff game tomorrow including Sam Darnold’s injury and matchups.
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Speaker 3 (01:01):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'm doing great fun times.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
You know what, You're a better man than me. I
gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
If somebody asked me, if I wasn't doing this show
and somebody said, hey, would you do an hour with
us on a Friday night, I'd say, you know what,
why do you take a suck out of my you
know what?
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Okay, Wow, that's what I would say. That's what I
would say. All right.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
And I've heard that line from Hugh Millan, by the way,
how many times here in the last twenty five years,
over and over again.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So I'm shocked.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I'm shocked. I didn't hear that from you this time.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
But you're talking to slemon right taking a suck out.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
No, I'm talking about taking a suck out of my ass, dick,
That's what I'm talking about. Okay, come on, man, Yeah,
I just get right to it. Why not, you know what,
I'm not messing around.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I'm on edge. I'm not playing around right now.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
We are twenty four hours away, Hugh from Seahawks Niners tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Don't test me.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
We got Niner fans in here talking smack already at
the beer hall.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I may just stay here tonight, Hugh.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
The stadium's fifty feet behind us, and they may I
may not go home.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Do it? Well, he's saying, yes, please.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yeah, let's get let's get your your thoughts, the view
from fifty thousand feet. Where's your head at right now,
whether it's Sam Donald or the matchup itself?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Whatever? What are you thinking about tonight here?
Speaker 7 (02:13):
Well, I'm we're going to break it down in detail.
I think the matchup obviously favors Seattle. There's a lot
to go over here. But I think that the concern
about Sam Donald is is not necessarily the condition now,
because I think all parties believe, including Donald, that he's
going to be fine. You got adrenaline, you got uh
an injection, and and I'm not concerned about where he's
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at now. I'm concerning concerned about those fibers that could
be strained and exacerbated. And so you know, at some
point in the game if he now has a setback,
what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It's you know.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Here, you you log all this work to get to
the number one seed, and then even though we say
it's probably gonna be fine, I don't like probably. I like, certainly,
and nobody can say certainly that he's gonna be fine.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
We had Bonta hill On and you know he's full
of bravado, not as much as he usually is in
these matchups, but he did make this comment. He said
Purdy is without a doubt better than Sam Donald, and
Shanahan is better than Mike McDonald.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
How would you respond to those two comments, Well.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
That's what you'd say if you're in San Francisco. I mean,
there's numbers that you could point to to say objectively,
you know, the forty nine ers since twenty nineteen are
the winning this team in the NFC, so I can
understand objectively, you can't really say that Mike McDonald has
knocked Kyle Shanahan off of many pergs. Brock Purdy has
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won five playoff games, four of them were game winning drives.
He's been at it longer. But you know, for this year,
you've got Sam Donald. He is number one in the
NFL in yards per dropback that would include sacks and
scrambles that there's a six to seventy three correlation to
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winning on that statistic. Again, Donald number one, and that's
over three hundred different quarterback stats that the NFL has
in their stat portal. So I think you've got that piece,
And then you've got the piece that Sam Donald since
specifically November twenty seventh, twoenty and twenty two, that's the
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first time after he had had to sit due an injury.
He was at Carolina. He had at a high ankle
sprain and then he sat. Now he starts near the
end of the year. Since that point, he's thirty one
and nine by far and away the winning his quarterback
in the NFL, the quarterback with the most number of
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triple digit passer rating games. So he's been a new dude.
So look, it's just what do you want to point
your finger out. If you gonna make an argument for Purdy, yeah,
you've got evidence to support that. If you want to
make an argument for Donald, yes you have evidence to
support that, albeit on a more limited time frame.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Well let me let me just put it this way then, Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So we asked Mark and Chuck and he In and
Dick earlier today to kind of, you know, play the
one side of the debate team. You always liked this game.
If we're having a high school debate, you know, here
and and your Your responsibility, Hugh, is to present facts
on why San Francisco will win this game and where
their advantages are. What would your debate bullet points look
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like for tomorrow, Well.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
I would think that it may center around a limited
Sam Donald. I think that you would look and say
that the forty nine ers with Eric Kendricks and middle linebacker,
he had a good debut last week, and that he's
been more solid than anybody that they've had in replace
of Fred wall corner, that maybe somehow Seattle's offensive line
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is gonna have a regress. I mean here, the offensive line,
the running game for Seattle. Yes, in the last three games,
they've averaged one hundred and sixty five yards game, and
they've taken their average from twenty third in yards per rush.
They've they've popped it all the way up to third
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in the last three weeks. But if I was arguing,
I'd say that's just a three week mirage and San
Francisco is gonna be better stop in the run. They're
gonna somehow manufacture some pass rush and Donald, maybe a
hobbled Donald, is not gonna be able to.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Convert the points.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
You know, the forty nine ers there's a lot of
average numbers on their defense when you start looking. The
one thing that they are are pretty darn good at
is red zone and then the goal to go down
in side the five down inside the ten yard line.
They're fourth in the NFL defensively, So if they were
able to keep Seattle from the big plays, and Seattle's
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offense has dried up in terms of big plays over
the last six weeks, the forty nine ers they play
that good goal one defense, and that might be the
basis for the idea that the forty nine ers are
going to get Seattle.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Hugh had of the Niners score in this game. They
have twenty points in two games against Seattle.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
It's a great question. I mean, you look at I
mean Christian McCaffrey. Here's a guy that came to the
forty nine ers in twenty twenty two. In both twenty
twenty two and twenty three, he was four point seven
yards per tempt last year. He dropped a four point
four this year. Now, this is not just handing the
ball to Christan McCaffrey. This is all the running game.
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Now they're down to three point seven and McCaffrey's below
that against Seattle, he had two point nine yards per attempt.
Whether he's lost step or what have it. Have you,
I think that Seattle's team speed has been able to
shut down the wide zone. McCaffrey is second in the
league only to Bijon Robinson, who's kind of the undisputed
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leader of outside zone. And so McCaffrey that's been his
bread and butter. He's the number two guy to Robinson,
as I said, and Seattle just has too much team speed.
They they flow to the ball. And now if m
indeed McCaffrey has lost to half a step, he's gonna
be thirty in June. We've seen this through the years
in the decades. Running backs, they all they do slip
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a little, and maybe he's slipping. But I think Seattle
they feel that they have an ability from a personnel standpoint.
They never played bass, they played nickel, and they played
a soft box and they were able to stop the run.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Hey here, let me go back to Darnold for a second.
I know you love getting to the game early, the
park early and watching pregame warm ups and keeping an
eye on stuff. And every now and then there's a
new story or something that'll come up where we'll all
be focused on, Hey, who's the starting center gonna be,
who's gonna take the first team reps at quarterback?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
How much if I get into the stadium early tomorrow,
which I'm planning on doing, how much should I be
watching Darnold as a fan and seeing how far he's
popping that ball downfield in pregame warmups to test that?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
O'blaque?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Is that something that I should be looking at as
a fan tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Well, if you're watching pregame warmups and he doesn't throw deep,
that's a little bit of a concern. I would think
that if he's going to be good to go for
the game, that he's gonna throw some you know, some
easy ups up the sideline at the very least, just
to kind of test it. I think an hour before
the game or so, a little over an hour you're
gonna get the the actives and inactives. Jaylen Milroe, you know,
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if he's active, that might be a little bit of
indicator how how concerned they are.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But he'll be the third string quarterback no matter what
the emergency QB Right Milroe.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Yes, it will he be active, right, you know, because
because if he's not active, then he.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Can play unless they get hurt yet yet right, yeah, and.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Then nobody can go back into the game. So you know,
there's you you, which is absolutely absurd rule. It's nonsensical
because the idea is that you want to I mean,
think about this, The idea is you want to help
from an injury standpoint, prevent any further injury. So now
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with this stupid rule, if Drew Locke were to play,
this is all God forbid. I don't even want to
throw this in the universe.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
But if we've already talked about it, Hugh, by the way,
so you're off the hook, trust me.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah. And then and then.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Let's say Drew Locke, you know, he gets he gets
bangor you know, he takes a shock to the face whatever,
and he thinks he's got mild symptoms. Well, he can't
he can't go say hey, maybe I had to sit
out a series. He's just got to keep playing because otherwise,
if they take him out, they'll never be able to
put him back. So it's an absurd rule. But at
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any rate, we'll see how the how they play that out.
It's probably likely that he's just the emergency guy, but
if they activate him, that would be an indicator that
they have more concern.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Hugh, Should the Hawks be as conservative on offense as
they were two weeks ago? And do you think they
will be as conservatives as they were two weeks ago?
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Well, I think that they should open it up. I mean,
first of all, Sam Darnold for this year on passes
with the ball thirty plus air yards, Donald has a
fifty eight percent completion percentage. The second place guy is
forty two percent and the average is twenty five percent.
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Russell Wilson for his career is thirty six percent. So
this is a guy that has and by the way,
he was last year with the Vikings at forty three
percent that was the fifth best.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Is passer rating at.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
One hundred and eleven on on balls over thirty yards
was fourth best. I mean, this is a guy that
can air the ball down the field, down in the
red zone and the red zone fringe where I think
Seattle's biggest problem has been Seattle's not taking enough shots.
In my opinion, there's a philosophy of hey, when you
get down about the twenty five yard line, you know,
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throw a couple vertical routes, throw a double post, what
have you, and you tell the quarterback touchdown or check
down if you don't love it. If it's not a
green light, just check it down. But while Purdy has
a rating this is in the red zone fringe twenty
to forty, going in air yards of fifteen yards and more,
that's him kind of stretched the field intermediate. His pass
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rating is one hundred and forty four point seven. That's
number one in the NFL. But he only has eighteen attempts.
Compare that to the Rams thirty nine attempts, more than double.
So I just think there's some ways to score some
more points. I think that they've been a little bit
too conservative down inside the red zone. In the area
the friends just outside the red zone, I think that
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they've got the defense to combat if there were to
be a turnover, And I think put it this way,
I think you can do the same game plan that
you had in Week eighteen and probably win the game.
But I'm not They're the number one seat, They've got
the shortest odds to win the Super Bowl of anybody.
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So I would take a slight risk against the forty
nine ers, a ever so slight risk to try and
open it up so that I'm thinking about next week
and in the super Bowl, because you can't just look
at the passing game and it's like I bought a
pressure washer at Costco. I don't use it very often,
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but when there's a mess, I drag it out. The
handle comes off, so you could I got it stored
in some box in the garage, like I.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Barely use it.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
You can't treat a pass game aim like your pressure
washer and only drag it out on on rare occasions
to clean up message. You've got to get Sam Darnold
in a and back, in my opinion, to a rhythm
of of let's get some of those big plays that
we had going. I mean, Seattle's number one in the
NFL for the season in fifty yard completions. Are more
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fifty yards or more seven of those? The forty nine
ers only have one. There's all these numbers I could
throw to you. I told them what dB Yeah? So
to me, I was like, hey, let's let's kind of
crank this thing open because we want to win three
more games.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Well, first of all, I love my pressure washer, and
the bigger the head, the better the job. I mean,
you can blast that grime and dirt off and off
your driveway. Man, Yes, I did say that. I'm talking
in pressure washer terms here perpose, Okay, I.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Think compared to what he said at the beginning of
second I mean I.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Heard that last night man, about.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
There's not okay. No, I was told you.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, we had a conversation about cleaning the driveway.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
There's things more satisfying where you can start, like drawing
pictures in the dirt with your pressure washer. You got
a big box, you spray that out. It's satisfying as hell.
So don't you be distant pressure washers? Now you that's
number one? Number two if you went to the Seahawks though,
and you said, look, you are because guys, let's be honest,
Sam Donald and Mike McDonald are looking to do what
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Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams did last week, win their
first playoff game as a head coach and a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
And those guys did that last week.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
So the fact that Shanahan's been here before, the fact
that party has been here before, and the fact that Donald,
outside of one game and McDonald's never been here, how
much does that really mean you think you tangibly tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
You know, I think for some reason, Sam Donald has
become this beacon and I get the because of last year.
You know, the Vikings go fourteen and three, they play
in a playoff game against the Rams. And to put
it into a perspective, you saw the Super Bowl last
year where Mahomes was awful right.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Going into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Mahomes had like a fifty point full four rating or
something crazy under fifty five.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Like it was awful right.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Why because Mahomes didn't have any pass protection in that game.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
This is the last Super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
This of the most recent super Bowl, he had seventeen
pressures by the NFL's calculation. Sam Darnold last year in
that playoff game against the Rams had twenty seven darres
saw their left tackle was out. The replacement he took
on a all time playoff record twelve pressures plus a sack.
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They couldn't protect for anybody the right guard. They had
forty percent of their line out. That was a calamity
on behalf of the Vikings offensive line of pressure.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
So now they say, well.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Donald can't, uh, he can't win the big Well, he's
only played in one of them, and he.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Had ridiculous it's ridiculous. So and so now going into that,
you know.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
It's like before the the Ram game on that Thursday night.
I love all the guys who cover the Seattle Times.
I'm not trying to pick on anybody, but that Donald
and his teammates have to see on the on game day,
here's a big story about Darnald can't win the big Well,
they beat the Rams.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Then okay, now when they play the.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Forty nine ers in week eighteen, same deal, game day,
there's a story.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Guess what?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Right now, there another story right there. And it's not
just the national guys, it's the local guys. And again
I'm not picking on them. They got to write what
people are. But it's like every time, yeah, I get,
but every time it's like, okay, what what does he got?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I guess what he has to do is win a playoff?
Speaker 7 (17:57):
But you know what, it seems like even if if
he win tomorrow, they'll still write a story before the
NFC Championship game. Will he hasn't run the really big one?
Like Don James said, the big one is always the
one you lost.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
You won on Coward Show. It wasn't Coward, it was this.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
It was his sidekick that was doing the show today
and he said, he said, unless Sam.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Darnold wins a super Bowl, he's not getting this off
of what if?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
What if he plays great and they went and they
lose the game?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Doesn't like that? That's that, But that's what the national
narrative is.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
What's gonna happen if he wins the title? They're gonna say, well,
let's see what happens next year. Yes, of course, here
you know this. If he plays poorly tomorrow, boy, he's
gonna hear it. Man, he's gonna hear it, and you're
gonna hear it. And I'm gonna hear it. And everyone
who is back this guy is gonna hear it.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I get it.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
I mean, I think that a big part of this
was rooted in his comment about uh, seeing ghosts, right,
and and it's just a big pile of ignorance. In
my opinion, I love it that people how they reference
because I listen to how people reference that. And here's
my take on that. The term chasing ghost is used
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in a quarterback meeting room all the time because what
it refers to you are seeing ghosts rather chasing ghosts
is when you're in advance of a game and you say, well,
what do we do if we're in that formation and
they're in that front, and then we have this particular
play called how are we going to protect that? You
could drive yourself crazy. We call that chasing ghosts. You say,
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you know what, we can't account for every situation.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Make a play.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
I've literally had Mike Shanahan and Gary Kubiak say, well,
if that happens, just try and make a play like
the best minds in the game. And so seeing ghosts
is that you're in the pocket and you're trying. You
are instructed, you do your job, and you have to
be looking down the field seeing ghost this is one
of two things. You think that there's a guy in
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his own coverage out there that's not there, and or
you're in the pocket and you're trying to keep your
eyes down the field and you feel like there's there's
somebody around you. Like Jim Everett famously took a dive
in the NFC Championship game. He thought there was a
forty nine or defensive end and he goes to the ground.
Nobody's around him. It just he had to go to
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psych psychiatry for years because of that. It just killed them, right,
But seeing ghosts is you are feeling like there's defenders
there that are not and it's lexicon and terminology within
the quarterback world. People don't even I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
I think we have. I think we have Jackson, a
new drop and a new name for this radio show.
Just a big pile of ignorance every day at three o'clock.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
So grabs that for me.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
All right here wee let's come back and talk more
about the matchup tomorrow. If there's any tweaks that McDonald
or Kubiak need to make in this game tomorrow, what
would they potentially be?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
What does George Kittle being out mean? All that and more?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
With Hugh, we're considering hanging out for an hour. I
think we will do that. Have v here with us
until six o'clock tonight, and then Larry Krueger from K
and BR Radio in San Francisco, where he's done wiping
the chicken wing sauce off his face, he'll join us
at six on ninety three three KJRFM.
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Speaker 3 (21:36):
And routes on air.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Just kind of felt a little a little something out
bleak just didn't want to push it.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
You know, it wasn't the day to push it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
So that was that was it.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
So I just came in, said, I got some rehab
and you know, feel like I'll be ready.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
To go for Saturday.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
You think she might not play, It's.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
A very low percentage, probably closer to zero.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
All right, darnold, that was yesterday talking about his oblique injury.
Humillan rejoins us.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Here we're at the Occidental Hall across from loom and Field.
Doors open eleven o'clock tomorrow morning. By the way, I
would get here early, like be online at like ten o'clock. Honestly, tomorrow,
get here way early. This play is gonna fill up
and fill up fast tomorrow for the Seahawk game. Obviously
got a game at one thirty as well. So hu
Millan rejoins us, and here we're talking in the last
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segment about this matchup tomorrow and if Mike McDonald Clint
Kubiak need to.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Really change anything.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I mean, you talked about maybe wanting a few more
shots open, open the offense up a little bit more.
But is there anything schematically from Game two to Game
three that you'd like to see the Seahawks do differently tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
On offense or defense? I think one go ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Well, I think offensively we touched on let's be more aggressive. Uh,
that would be my thought, but it's hard to argue
with you know, you're up at one hundred and seven,
you know, push one hundred and seventy yards rushing, But
I would just say red zone, more aggression on red zone.
They're they're at two point two yards per attempt on
first down in the red zone. On the rushing, you know,
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I'd maybe want to see some more play action, take
a shot to the end zone.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Rasik Shahad.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
We have not seen the go ball from him, we
have not seen the post ball from him. We know
he has a speed, but let's see if we can't
hit a big one with him. Defensively, I think I
don't know that you change things up. You just kind
of wait to see what Shanahan's doing. I mean, the
game plan was perfect, right, I mean, there's so much
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to discuss here. The forty nine ers a little bit
different from a personnel standpoint, but where Seattle was it
was basically they feel like the Seahawks feel like they
had a beat on what San Francisco wanted to do.
And if Purdy gets back and he throws without a hitch,
rally and tackle and the forty nine ers they had
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an average of one hundred and eight yards yards after
the catch for the entire season, they had a season
low fifty five zero yards yards after the catch against Seattle.
Seattle tackled great, they closed space great. Uh and and
so I think it would be hard. They'd be hard
pressed to want to change their game plan significantly until
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they see what what Shanahan may have in store for them.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
Hugh, how does the forty nine er offensive attack change
now without Kittle?
Speaker 7 (24:38):
Well, there's a couple of guys here. You know, Chent
Williams is back in Kittle's out And if you look
at Kittle, he has been a forty nine Er since
twenty seventeen. The forty nine Ers with Kittle in the
lineup are eighty fifth and fifty seven five eighty four
win percentage. Without Kittle, there eleven and fourteen for forty percentage. Okay, okay,
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So and you know their their yards per Russia tempt
goes from four point five to four point one. So
here's a guy that has been a great blocker and
not just run blocker, but he's had He had twenty
five pass blocks this season. Three in the game against Seattle,
asked Nuosu about George Kittle as a passblocker because Nuosa
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was matched up one on one with him. Perdy had
a drop back, took three hitches through a third down
conversion over on a comeback on the sideline, and Nuosu
wasn't within two club links of Brock Perdy. And he
also had one against Boy Mafia. I mean a Kittle
can pass block, So that's a portion. And then the
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other part of it is he ran a four or
five to two at the combine this Tonguus ran a
four to seven to seven two and a half tens
of a second. That means you go from one of
the fastest tight ends in the league to one of
the slowest. And so that is an effect. They're gonna
miskill a lot in addition to him being a leader
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of sorts, just from his competitiveness and everything he's accomplished.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Well, let me ask you this, is that a net
positive for San Francisco? I mean, Trent Williams did not
play right in a Week eight team, but George Kittle
did kittle out Trent Williams back Pearsall too right, But
let's just forget Pearsall for a second with Kettle versus
Trent Williams. Is that a net positive or a net
win for them? Or is it a washer or is
it a is it a net negative?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
You think?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I feel like it's a wash?
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Okay, you know, by the way, Trent Williams he came
to the forty nine ers at age thirty. He played
his last year age thirty with Washington. They are fifty
five and twenty nine with Trent Williams in the lineup,
six fifty five.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Well, you guys know how old he is, by the way, right,
Trent Williams. Yeah, he's like he's thirty seven and he's
so old. Remember when he punched Richard Sherman to the
face in the Redskins game in twenty thirteen, twenty thirteen playoff.
Before the end of that, that's how long that dude,
guys has been around. He's the dude that sucked Richard
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Sherman right in the mouth post game after that Redskins
playoff game.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
He well check this out.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
They are four and thirteen without him in the forty
nine and in his tenure at San Francisco a two
thirty five win percentage if you take the playoffs, there
are is six sixty win percentage with him.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
And by the way, check this out.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Points with Trent Williams twenty five point nine points without
Trent Williams eighteen point nine. That's exactly seven points. Hell,
quarterbacks don't swing a line seven points. I'm not saying
they would swing a Vegas line. But yards per rush,
excuse me, rushing yards per game one hundred and thirty
three with Trent Williams ninety four without. I mean, we're
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talking about thirty nine yard difference. So this is a guy.
It's not I don't think it's just that he's the
Hall of Fame left tackle. It's probably the confidence and
the schemes that they feel comfortable with. So so he's
a dude now and he's back. I don't know if
he's one hundred percent, but you lose kittle. Uh, he
gained Trent Williams. It feels like it's aboutt a wash,
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But I could make an argument for either one.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Hughes. He's still performing that way though, because those numbers
you throw out are like, twenty eight year old Trent Williams,
twenty nine year old, middle of his prime.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
This is thirty two.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Those are all post No, those are all posts he
was he was thirty. Those are all in his thirties.
Since in his.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Thirties, Okay, but still thirty and thirty seven are agreed.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Agreed. Yeah, I watched it.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
I watched the tape the Eagles. You know, he looked
like he got off balance a little bit. So there's
times where you go, oh, that's that looks a little
old manish, but.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
That's uh. But then there's times where you say, what
a minute.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Nobody's getting around him, nobody's getting near brock Purdy on
his side. So I think they're delighted to have him back.
For some of the numbers I said, you're addition to
the leadership part of it.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Well, let's we'll see. Maybe they Ham who's gonna be
problematic again for him. We never know he's back, but
it may not be one hundred percent back. All right, here,
we're gonna break, come back and wrap it up with you,
and then Larry Krueger from K and B are going
to join us at six on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
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Speaker 3 (29:39):
Do you know who you're playing next week?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
I take a wow.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I guess. I hope it's Seattle.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Though it is Seattle.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Go, let's go there, Let's go. I can't wait. That's
what we want it.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
That is the voice of the Niner wide receiver Joan Jennings,
who said we want the Hawks.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Bring on the Hawks.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
It's funny how you're not hearing Damadour Lenor run his
pie hole this week like he was before a week.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
I mean, mister defensive.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
We'll find out, man, But real quick, I was looking
at the ticket prices guys for this weekend. Would it
surprise you if I told you the Seahawks Niners was
the most expensive game left in the divisional round this
weekend for sixty to get in the door at venue
Kings four point fifty for Chicago, three thirteen for Denver,
and Pultry two sixty for the Patriot game this weekend
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obviously against the Texans. So people are fired up. Man,
gonna be a lot of Niner fans in the house.
We'll see how many.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Larry Krueger KNBR Radio San Francisco is here. He will
join us at six pm. But Hugh, go back to
that defense for a little bit, man, some general thoughts
on the d tomorrow because I think a lot of
us are just kind of relying on the defense to
do what they've done for the last maybe eight or
nine weeks and carry the day tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
I got so many thoughts just watching the tape, love
and watching the tape. But random shout out to Byron
Murphy coming out of Texas.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
His last year there.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
With the Longhorns, he was forty eight percent of the
defensive snaps and there was questions about, Hey, why is
he you know, does he have a stamina issue? That's
is our durability issue? And then last year's rookie year
fell to forty three percent of the Seahawks snaps. This
year he jacked it up to seventy three and a
half percent of the snaps played Pro Bowl near all
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pro level, taken on double team, So shout for him. Uh.
Then the other part of it is, you know, when
I watch Kyle Shanahan, he's brilliant offensively, but when a
defense is smacking you in the fact, it's kind of
that that Mike Tyson.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Everybody's got a plan until you get hit in the mouth. Right.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
There's a fine line between Shanahan and the beautiful misdirection
that when it works, and there's a fine line between
very creative and just kind of almost too gimmicky, too
much misdirection. And and it's as if the Seahawks are
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coached like, hey, just let the magic show play out.
They're gonna be all this misdirection in front. At some
point the balls got to declare where it's going. And
there's a couple of plays that just really impressed me.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
The one time that Seattle rushed more than five in
the whole game they played. Coach, some coaches are gonna
shake that ahead and go how could that happen? But
I honest to god, they played a two deep three
under zone. Those are massive holes, and yet the way
they matched it on that fourth down, they were trying
to get Kittle on a sail route the safety, everything
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was bottled up.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
They couldn't get it.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
So they're able to They're playing zone coverage with five
freaking dudes, and they know exactly what's coming at them.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
The other one.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
While Seattle is for the season eighty point four percent
zone four out of five plays they play zone against
these beleaguered forty nine or receivers, they played a little
bit more man and man in the week eighteen game,
and there's guys you know, like Sky Moore, a wide
receiver for San Francisco. Just a dude, man, he's an
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August player, is not a January player. Sorry to pick
on him, but one of my favorite plays was in
a man and man. By the way, nine plays Seattle
in Week eighteen playing cover one, that's man and man.
Every time they played man and man, they had exactly
one safety in the middle of the field, never two.
Never zero one safety and the forty nine ers in
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those nine plays a massed exactly eighteen yards obviously two
yards per play. But one of the plays I really
loved was Reek Wollen. Of all people, Reek walland lines up.
We just heard from Juwan Jennings he wants to smoke
from Seattle. How about this? On that play, he's lined
up in the left slot. They're doing this magic show.
They've got fake fly sweeks, they got running backs going
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this way that way. They're trying to create all this
misdirection and then throw it to jun Jennings. Well, Reek
Willen in man to man, he had to run behind.
There was a if Seattle wasn't better coached, there may
have been a collision with him and Drake Thomas. Drake
Thompson's recognized. He just cleared out the way for Rek
Willing to do his job. He Thomas did his job.
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And Rik wooland you want to talk about a turbo button.
They throw the ball out in the right flat and
Rik Wool and it's like an xbox. He just goes
grabs Juwan Jennings throws him down for a loss of one,
and it's as if to say, you and your little
smoking mirrors, Kyle Shannah and you're doing all this stuff.
You know, it's it looks like some kind of flag
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football from you know, middle schoolers with all this fake
here fake and Seattle just like hit him in the mouth.
I love that physicality. And you watch that tape and
it hits you, like all this mistreat. They're trying to
trick Seattle. They're trying to trick Seattle. They don't want
to line up and play. They used to line up
with ust Jeff and play with the lead fullback. They
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only had three runs from under center and Seattle had
thirty three. Like they are not playing to their identity.
They're trying to trick people, and Seattle was having none
of it. And I don't think they're having any of
it on the game tomorrow night.
Speaker 8 (35:05):
Final thing for me, we've talked about the x's and o's,
we've talked about the physical side. Let's talk about the
psychological side. Because Mike Floria had an interesting quote when
he was on with us on Wednesday. He said, quote,
you have to overcome that it was so easy the
last time. How big a concern is that for you?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (35:21):
He's right, Yeah, I think it's a big concern. I
think that there's a fine line. You'd say, say, how
could it fall? It could be Seattle has a lot
of confidence, and so they just bring that, you know,
essentially into the fifth quarter of a like a soccer jackson.
Don't they play soccer playoff games where it's like a
combination of two games or something like. So Seattle's going
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to want to have that confidence, but you better respect
these guys. Meanwhile, San Francisco, on their part, they could
be a little bit fragile. They might look and say, hey,
this isn't our year. I think the first quarter is
very important. There's a chance could make this an easy contest,
and it would happen in the first quarter, right as
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if to say, yep, lather rints repeat, it's exactly like
week eighteen. But if some plays materialize and San Francisco says,
hey we got a new plant, this is a new day.
Yep h, then you know that could be a factor. Yes,
I agree with Florio, that is a potential.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Let me ask you this, if you win the coin toss,
you want the ball.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
I think you just do what you've done. I think
that they they like to defer. They like that swing,
you know, the eight minutes swing, four minutes to the
last four minutes of the second quarter, first four minutes
and third quarter.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
So I think you just do what you've been doing.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
That tin of twelves are most revved up anyway.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Well that's the thing though, is that if you get
the ball and you shove it down their throat like
you did the last game with an eight minute drive,
that could be a backbreaker. I mean, if you're telling
me the first quarter is that important here, which I
agree with, I wonder if you think about taking the
ball if they win the coin toss tomorrow and shoving
it right down their throat tomorrow. So we'll see, all right, man,
great stuff and looking forward to tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Man, awesome job, buddy.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Rock and roll, go Hawks.
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Speaker 3 (01:01):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'm doing great fun times.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
You know what, You're a better man than me. I
gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
If somebody asked me, if I wasn't doing this show
and somebody said, hey, would you do an hour with
us on a Friday night, I'd say, you know what,
why do you take a suck out of my you
know what?
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Okay, Wow, that's what I would say. That's what I
would say. All right.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
And I've heard that line from Hugh Millan, by the way,
how many times here in the last twenty five years,
over and over again.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So I'm shocked.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I'm shocked. I didn't hear that from you this time.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
But you're talking to slemon right taking a suck out.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
No, I'm talking about taking a suck out of my ass, dick,
That's what I'm talking about. Okay, come on, man, Yeah,
I just get right to it. Why not, you know what,
I'm not messing around.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I'm on edge. I'm not playing around right now.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
We are twenty four hours away, Hugh from Seahawks Niners tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Don't test me.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
We got Niner fans in here talking smack already at
the beer hall.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I may just stay here tonight, Hugh.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
The stadium's fifty feet behind us, and they may I
may not go home.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Do it? Well, he's saying, yes, please.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yeah, let's get let's get your your thoughts, the view
from fifty thousand feet. Where's your head at right now,
whether it's Sam Donald or the matchup itself?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Whatever? What are you thinking about tonight here?
Speaker 7 (02:13):
Well, I'm we're going to break it down in detail.
I think the matchup obviously favors Seattle. There's a lot
to go over here. But I think that the concern
about Sam Donald is is not necessarily the condition now,
because I think all parties believe, including Donald, that he's
going to be fine. You got adrenaline, you got uh
an injection, and and I'm not concerned about where he's
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at now. I'm concerning concerned about those fibers that could
be strained and exacerbated. And so you know, at some
point in the game if he now has a setback,
what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It's you know.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Here, you you log all this work to get to
the number one seed, and then even though we say
it's probably gonna be fine, I don't like probably. I like, certainly,
and nobody can say certainly that he's gonna be fine.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
We had Bonta hill On and you know he's full
of bravado, not as much as he usually is in
these matchups, but he did make this comment. He said
Purdy is without a doubt better than Sam Donald, and
Shanahan is better than Mike McDonald.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
How would you respond to those two comments, Well.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
That's what you'd say if you're in San Francisco. I mean,
there's numbers that you could point to to say objectively,
you know, the forty nine ers since twenty nineteen are
the winning this team in the NFC, so I can
understand objectively, you can't really say that Mike McDonald has
knocked Kyle Shanahan off of many pergs. Brock Purdy has
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won five playoff games, four of them were game winning drives.
He's been at it longer. But you know, for this year,
you've got Sam Donald. He is number one in the
NFL in yards per dropback that would include sacks and
scrambles that there's a six to seventy three correlation to
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winning on that statistic. Again, Donald number one, and that's
over three hundred different quarterback stats that the NFL has
in their stat portal. So I think you've got that piece,
And then you've got the piece that Sam Donald since
specifically November twenty seventh, twoenty and twenty two, that's the
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first time after he had had to sit due an injury.
He was at Carolina. He had at a high ankle
sprain and then he sat. Now he starts near the
end of the year. Since that point, he's thirty one
and nine by far and away the winning his quarterback
in the NFL, the quarterback with the most number of
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triple digit passer rating games. So he's been a new dude.
So look, it's just what do you want to point
your finger out. If you gonna make an argument for Purdy, yeah,
you've got evidence to support that. If you want to
make an argument for Donald, yes you have evidence to
support that, albeit on a more limited time frame.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Well let me let me just put it this way then, Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So we asked Mark and Chuck and he In and
Dick earlier today to kind of, you know, play the
one side of the debate team. You always liked this game.
If we're having a high school debate, you know, here
and and your Your responsibility, Hugh, is to present facts
on why San Francisco will win this game and where
their advantages are. What would your debate bullet points look
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like for tomorrow, Well.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
I would think that it may center around a limited
Sam Donald. I think that you would look and say
that the forty nine ers with Eric Kendricks and middle linebacker,
he had a good debut last week, and that he's
been more solid than anybody that they've had in replace
of Fred wall corner, that maybe somehow Seattle's offensive line
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is gonna have a regress. I mean here, the offensive line,
the running game for Seattle. Yes, in the last three games,
they've averaged one hundred and sixty five yards game, and
they've taken their average from twenty third in yards per rush.
They've they've popped it all the way up to third
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in the last three weeks. But if I was arguing,
I'd say that's just a three week mirage and San
Francisco is gonna be better stop in the run. They're
gonna somehow manufacture some pass rush and Donald, maybe a
hobbled Donald, is not gonna be able to.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Convert the points.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
You know, the forty nine ers there's a lot of
average numbers on their defense when you start looking. The
one thing that they are are pretty darn good at
is red zone and then the goal to go down
in side the five down inside the ten yard line.
They're fourth in the NFL defensively, So if they were
able to keep Seattle from the big plays, and Seattle's
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offense has dried up in terms of big plays over
the last six weeks, the forty nine ers they play
that good goal one defense, and that might be the
basis for the idea that the forty nine ers are
going to get Seattle.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Hugh had of the Niners score in this game. They
have twenty points in two games against Seattle.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
It's a great question. I mean, you look at I
mean Christian McCaffrey. Here's a guy that came to the
forty nine ers in twenty twenty two. In both twenty
twenty two and twenty three, he was four point seven
yards per tempt last year. He dropped a four point
four this year. Now, this is not just handing the
ball to Christan McCaffrey. This is all the running game.
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Now they're down to three point seven and McCaffrey's below
that against Seattle, he had two point nine yards per attempt.
Whether he's lost step or what have it. Have you,
I think that Seattle's team speed has been able to
shut down the wide zone. McCaffrey is second in the
league only to Bijon Robinson, who's kind of the undisputed
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leader of outside zone. And so McCaffrey that's been his
bread and butter. He's the number two guy to Robinson,
as I said, and Seattle just has too much team speed.
They they flow to the ball. And now if m
indeed McCaffrey has lost to half a step, he's gonna
be thirty in June. We've seen this through the years
in the decades. Running backs, they all they do slip
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a little, and maybe he's slipping. But I think Seattle
they feel that they have an ability from a personnel standpoint.
They never played bass, they played nickel, and they played
a soft box and they were able to stop the run.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Hey here, let me go back to Darnold for a second.
I know you love getting to the game early, the
park early and watching pregame warm ups and keeping an
eye on stuff. And every now and then there's a
new story or something that'll come up where we'll all
be focused on, Hey, who's the starting center gonna be,
who's gonna take the first team reps at quarterback?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
How much if I get into the stadium early tomorrow,
which I'm planning on doing, how much should I be
watching Darnold as a fan and seeing how far he's
popping that ball downfield in pregame warmups to test that?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
O'blaque?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Is that something that I should be looking at as
a fan tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Well, if you're watching pregame warmups and he doesn't throw deep,
that's a little bit of a concern. I would think
that if he's going to be good to go for
the game, that he's gonna throw some you know, some
easy ups up the sideline at the very least, just
to kind of test it. I think an hour before
the game or so, a little over an hour you're
gonna get the the actives and inactives. Jaylen Milroe, you know,
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if he's active, that might be a little bit of
indicator how how concerned they are.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But he'll be the third string quarterback no matter what
the emergency QB Right Milroe.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Yes, it will he be active, right, you know, because
because if he's not active, then he.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Can play unless they get hurt yet yet right, yeah, and.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Then nobody can go back into the game. So you know,
there's you you, which is absolutely absurd rule. It's nonsensical
because the idea is that you want to I mean,
think about this, The idea is you want to help
from an injury standpoint, prevent any further injury. So now
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with this stupid rule, if Drew Locke were to play,
this is all God forbid. I don't even want to
throw this in the universe.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
But if we've already talked about it, Hugh, by the way,
so you're off the hook, trust me.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah. And then and then.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Let's say Drew Locke, you know, he gets he gets
bangor you know, he takes a shock to the face whatever,
and he thinks he's got mild symptoms. Well, he can't
he can't go say hey, maybe I had to sit
out a series. He's just got to keep playing because otherwise,
if they take him out, they'll never be able to
put him back. So it's an absurd rule. But at
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any rate, we'll see how the how they play that out.
It's probably likely that he's just the emergency guy, but
if they activate him, that would be an indicator that
they have more concern.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Hugh, Should the Hawks be as conservative on offense as
they were two weeks ago? And do you think they
will be as conservatives as they were two weeks ago?
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Well, I think that they should open it up. I mean,
first of all, Sam Darnold for this year on passes
with the ball thirty plus air yards, Donald has a
fifty eight percent completion percentage. The second place guy is
forty two percent and the average is twenty five percent.
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Russell Wilson for his career is thirty six percent. So
this is a guy that has and by the way,
he was last year with the Vikings at forty three
percent that was the fifth best.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Is passer rating at.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
One hundred and eleven on on balls over thirty yards
was fourth best. I mean, this is a guy that
can air the ball down the field, down in the
red zone and the red zone fringe where I think
Seattle's biggest problem has been Seattle's not taking enough shots.
In my opinion, there's a philosophy of hey, when you
get down about the twenty five yard line, you know,
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throw a couple vertical routes, throw a double post, what
have you, and you tell the quarterback touchdown or check
down if you don't love it. If it's not a
green light, just check it down. But while Purdy has
a rating this is in the red zone fringe twenty
to forty, going in air yards of fifteen yards and more,
that's him kind of stretched the field intermediate. His pass
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rating is one hundred and forty four point seven. That's
number one in the NFL. But he only has eighteen attempts.
Compare that to the Rams thirty nine attempts, more than double.
So I just think there's some ways to score some
more points. I think that they've been a little bit
too conservative down inside the red zone. In the area
the friends just outside the red zone, I think that
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they've got the defense to combat if there were to
be a turnover, And I think put it this way,
I think you can do the same game plan that
you had in Week eighteen and probably win the game.
But I'm not They're the number one seat, They've got
the shortest odds to win the Super Bowl of anybody.
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So I would take a slight risk against the forty
nine ers, a ever so slight risk to try and
open it up so that I'm thinking about next week
and in the super Bowl, because you can't just look
at the passing game and it's like I bought a
pressure washer at Costco. I don't use it very often,
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but when there's a mess, I drag it out. The
handle comes off, so you could I got it stored
in some box in the garage, like I.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Barely use it.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
You can't treat a pass game aim like your pressure
washer and only drag it out on on rare occasions
to clean up message. You've got to get Sam Darnold
in a and back, in my opinion, to a rhythm
of of let's get some of those big plays that
we had going. I mean, Seattle's number one in the
NFL for the season in fifty yard completions. Are more
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fifty yards or more seven of those? The forty nine
ers only have one. There's all these numbers I could
throw to you. I told them what dB Yeah? So
to me, I was like, hey, let's let's kind of
crank this thing open because we want to win three
more games.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Well, first of all, I love my pressure washer, and
the bigger the head, the better the job. I mean,
you can blast that grime and dirt off and off
your driveway. Man, Yes, I did say that. I'm talking
in pressure washer terms here perpose, Okay, I.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Think compared to what he said at the beginning of
second I mean I.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Heard that last night man, about.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
There's not okay. No, I was told you.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, we had a conversation about cleaning the driveway.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
There's things more satisfying where you can start, like drawing
pictures in the dirt with your pressure washer. You got
a big box, you spray that out. It's satisfying as hell.
So don't you be distant pressure washers? Now you that's
number one? Number two if you went to the Seahawks though,
and you said, look, you are because guys, let's be honest,
Sam Donald and Mike McDonald are looking to do what
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Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams did last week, win their
first playoff game as a head coach and a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
And those guys did that last week.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
So the fact that Shanahan's been here before, the fact
that party has been here before, and the fact that Donald,
outside of one game and McDonald's never been here, how
much does that really mean you think you tangibly tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
You know, I think for some reason, Sam Donald has
become this beacon and I get the because of last year.
You know, the Vikings go fourteen and three, they play
in a playoff game against the Rams. And to put
it into a perspective, you saw the Super Bowl last
year where Mahomes was awful right.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Going into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Mahomes had like a fifty point full four rating or
something crazy under fifty five.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Like it was awful right.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Why because Mahomes didn't have any pass protection in that game.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
This is the last Super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
This of the most recent super Bowl, he had seventeen
pressures by the NFL's calculation. Sam Darnold last year in
that playoff game against the Rams had twenty seven darres
saw their left tackle was out. The replacement he took
on a all time playoff record twelve pressures plus a sack.
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They couldn't protect for anybody the right guard. They had
forty percent of their line out. That was a calamity
on behalf of the Vikings offensive line of pressure.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
So now they say, well.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Donald can't, uh, he can't win the big Well, he's
only played in one of them, and he.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Had ridiculous it's ridiculous. So and so now going into that,
you know.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
It's like before the the Ram game on that Thursday night.
I love all the guys who cover the Seattle Times.
I'm not trying to pick on anybody, but that Donald
and his teammates have to see on the on game day,
here's a big story about Darnald can't win the big Well,
they beat the Rams.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Then okay, now when they play the.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Forty nine ers in week eighteen, same deal, game day,
there's a story.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Guess what?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Right now, there another story right there. And it's not
just the national guys, it's the local guys. And again
I'm not picking on them. They got to write what
people are. But it's like every time, yeah, I get,
but every time it's like, okay, what what does he got?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I guess what he has to do is win a playoff?
Speaker 7 (17:57):
But you know what, it seems like even if if
he win tomorrow, they'll still write a story before the
NFC Championship game. Will he hasn't run the really big one?
Like Don James said, the big one is always the
one you lost.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
You won on Coward Show. It wasn't Coward, it was this.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
It was his sidekick that was doing the show today
and he said, he said, unless Sam.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Darnold wins a super Bowl, he's not getting this off
of what if?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
What if he plays great and they went and they
lose the game?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Doesn't like that? That's that, But that's what the national
narrative is.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
What's gonna happen if he wins the title? They're gonna say, well,
let's see what happens next year. Yes, of course, here
you know this. If he plays poorly tomorrow, boy, he's
gonna hear it. Man, he's gonna hear it, and you're
gonna hear it. And I'm gonna hear it. And everyone
who is back this guy is gonna hear it.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I get it.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
I mean, I think that a big part of this
was rooted in his comment about uh, seeing ghosts, right,
and and it's just a big pile of ignorance. In
my opinion, I love it that people how they reference
because I listen to how people reference that. And here's
my take on that. The term chasing ghost is used
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in a quarterback meeting room all the time because what
it refers to you are seeing ghosts rather chasing ghosts
is when you're in advance of a game and you say, well,
what do we do if we're in that formation and
they're in that front, and then we have this particular
play called how are we going to protect that? You
could drive yourself crazy. We call that chasing ghosts. You say,
(19:38):
you know what, we can't account for every situation.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Make a play.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
I've literally had Mike Shanahan and Gary Kubiak say, well,
if that happens, just try and make a play like
the best minds in the game. And so seeing ghosts
is that you're in the pocket and you're trying. You
are instructed, you do your job, and you have to
be looking down the field seeing ghost this is one
of two things. You think that there's a guy in
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his own coverage out there that's not there, and or
you're in the pocket and you're trying to keep your
eyes down the field and you feel like there's there's
somebody around you. Like Jim Everett famously took a dive
in the NFC Championship game. He thought there was a
forty nine or defensive end and he goes to the ground.
Nobody's around him. It just he had to go to
(20:27):
psych psychiatry for years because of that. It just killed them, right,
But seeing ghosts is you are feeling like there's defenders
there that are not and it's lexicon and terminology within
the quarterback world. People don't even I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
I think we have. I think we have Jackson, a
new drop and a new name for this radio show.
Just a big pile of ignorance every day at three o'clock.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
So grabs that for me.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
All right here wee let's come back and talk more
about the matchup tomorrow. If there's any tweaks that McDonald
or Kubiak need to make in this game tomorrow, what
would they potentially be?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
What does George Kittle being out mean? All that and more?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
With Hugh, we're considering hanging out for an hour. I
think we will do that. Have v here with us
until six o'clock tonight, and then Larry Krueger from K
and BR Radio in San Francisco, where he's done wiping
the chicken wing sauce off his face, he'll join us
at six on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
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Speaker 3 (21:36):
And routes on air.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Just kind of felt a little a little something out
bleak just didn't want to push it.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
You know, it wasn't the day to push it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
So that was that was it.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
So I just came in, said, I got some rehab
and you know, feel like I'll be ready.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
To go for Saturday.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
You think she might not play, It's.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
A very low percentage, probably closer to zero.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
All right, darnold, that was yesterday talking about his oblique injury.
Humillan rejoins us.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Here we're at the Occidental Hall across from loom and Field.
Doors open eleven o'clock tomorrow morning. By the way, I
would get here early, like be online at like ten o'clock. Honestly, tomorrow,
get here way early. This play is gonna fill up
and fill up fast tomorrow for the Seahawk game. Obviously
got a game at one thirty as well. So hu
Millan rejoins us, and here we're talking in the last
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segment about this matchup tomorrow and if Mike McDonald Clint
Kubiak need to.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Really change anything.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I mean, you talked about maybe wanting a few more
shots open, open the offense up a little bit more.
But is there anything schematically from Game two to Game
three that you'd like to see the Seahawks do differently tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
On offense or defense? I think one go ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Well, I think offensively we touched on let's be more aggressive. Uh,
that would be my thought, but it's hard to argue
with you know, you're up at one hundred and seven,
you know, push one hundred and seventy yards rushing, But
I would just say red zone, more aggression on red zone.
They're they're at two point two yards per attempt on
first down in the red zone. On the rushing, you know,
(23:15):
I'd maybe want to see some more play action, take
a shot to the end zone.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Rasik Shahad.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
We have not seen the go ball from him, we
have not seen the post ball from him. We know
he has a speed, but let's see if we can't
hit a big one with him. Defensively, I think I
don't know that you change things up. You just kind
of wait to see what Shanahan's doing. I mean, the
game plan was perfect, right, I mean, there's so much
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to discuss here. The forty nine ers a little bit
different from a personnel standpoint, but where Seattle was it
was basically they feel like the Seahawks feel like they
had a beat on what San Francisco wanted to do.
And if Purdy gets back and he throws without a hitch,
rally and tackle and the forty nine ers they had
(24:06):
an average of one hundred and eight yards yards after
the catch for the entire season, they had a season
low fifty five zero yards yards after the catch against Seattle.
Seattle tackled great, they closed space great. Uh and and
so I think it would be hard. They'd be hard
pressed to want to change their game plan significantly until
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they see what what Shanahan may have in store for them.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
Hugh, how does the forty nine er offensive attack change
now without Kittle?
Speaker 7 (24:38):
Well, there's a couple of guys here. You know, Chent
Williams is back in Kittle's out And if you look
at Kittle, he has been a forty nine Er since
twenty seventeen. The forty nine Ers with Kittle in the
lineup are eighty fifth and fifty seven five eighty four
win percentage. Without Kittle, there eleven and fourteen for forty percentage. Okay, okay,
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So and you know their their yards per Russia tempt
goes from four point five to four point one. So
here's a guy that has been a great blocker and
not just run blocker, but he's had He had twenty
five pass blocks this season. Three in the game against Seattle,
asked Nuosu about George Kittle as a passblocker because Nuosa
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was matched up one on one with him. Perdy had
a drop back, took three hitches through a third down
conversion over on a comeback on the sideline, and Nuosu
wasn't within two club links of Brock Perdy. And he
also had one against Boy Mafia. I mean a Kittle
can pass block, So that's a portion. And then the
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other part of it is he ran a four or
five to two at the combine this Tonguus ran a
four to seven to seven two and a half tens
of a second. That means you go from one of
the fastest tight ends in the league to one of
the slowest. And so that is an effect. They're gonna
miskill a lot in addition to him being a leader
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of sorts, just from his competitiveness and everything he's accomplished.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Well, let me ask you this, is that a net
positive for San Francisco? I mean, Trent Williams did not
play right in a Week eight team, but George Kittle
did kittle out Trent Williams back Pearsall too right, But
let's just forget Pearsall for a second with Kettle versus
Trent Williams. Is that a net positive or a net
win for them? Or is it a washer or is
it a is it a net negative?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
You think?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I feel like it's a wash?
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Okay, you know, by the way, Trent Williams he came
to the forty nine ers at age thirty. He played
his last year age thirty with Washington. They are fifty
five and twenty nine with Trent Williams in the lineup,
six fifty five.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Well, you guys know how old he is, by the way, right,
Trent Williams. Yeah, he's like he's thirty seven and he's
so old. Remember when he punched Richard Sherman to the
face in the Redskins game in twenty thirteen, twenty thirteen playoff.
Before the end of that, that's how long that dude,
guys has been around. He's the dude that sucked Richard
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Sherman right in the mouth post game after that Redskins
playoff game.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
He well check this out.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
They are four and thirteen without him in the forty
nine and in his tenure at San Francisco a two
thirty five win percentage if you take the playoffs, there
are is six sixty win percentage with him.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
And by the way, check this out.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Points with Trent Williams twenty five point nine points without
Trent Williams eighteen point nine. That's exactly seven points. Hell,
quarterbacks don't swing a line seven points. I'm not saying
they would swing a Vegas line. But yards per rush,
excuse me, rushing yards per game one hundred and thirty
three with Trent Williams ninety four without. I mean, we're
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talking about thirty nine yard difference. So this is a guy.
It's not I don't think it's just that he's the
Hall of Fame left tackle. It's probably the confidence and
the schemes that they feel comfortable with. So so he's
a dude now and he's back. I don't know if
he's one hundred percent, but you lose kittle. Uh, he
gained Trent Williams. It feels like it's aboutt a wash,
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But I could make an argument for either one.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Hughes. He's still performing that way though, because those numbers
you throw out are like, twenty eight year old Trent Williams,
twenty nine year old, middle of his prime.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
This is thirty two.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
Those are all post No, those are all posts he
was he was thirty. Those are all in his thirties.
Since in his.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Thirties, Okay, but still thirty and thirty seven are agreed.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Agreed. Yeah, I watched it.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
I watched the tape the Eagles. You know, he looked
like he got off balance a little bit. So there's
times where you go, oh, that's that looks a little
old manish, but.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
That's uh. But then there's times where you say, what
a minute.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Nobody's getting around him, nobody's getting near brock Purdy on
his side. So I think they're delighted to have him back.
For some of the numbers I said, you're addition to
the leadership part of it.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Well, let's we'll see. Maybe they Ham who's gonna be
problematic again for him. We never know he's back, but
it may not be one hundred percent back. All right, here,
we're gonna break, come back and wrap it up with you,
and then Larry Krueger from K and B are going
to join us at six on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
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Speaker 3 (29:39):
Do you know who you're playing next week?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
I take a wow.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I guess. I hope it's Seattle.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Though it is Seattle.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Go, let's go there, Let's go. I can't wait. That's
what we want it.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
That is the voice of the Niner wide receiver Joan Jennings,
who said we want the Hawks.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Bring on the Hawks.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
It's funny how you're not hearing Damadour Lenor run his
pie hole this week like he was before a week.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
I mean, mister defensive.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
We'll find out, man, But real quick, I was looking
at the ticket prices guys for this weekend. Would it
surprise you if I told you the Seahawks Niners was
the most expensive game left in the divisional round this
weekend for sixty to get in the door at venue
Kings four point fifty for Chicago, three thirteen for Denver,
and Pultry two sixty for the Patriot game this weekend
(30:24):
obviously against the Texans. So people are fired up. Man,
gonna be a lot of Niner fans in the house.
We'll see how many.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Larry Krueger KNBR Radio San Francisco is here. He will
join us at six pm. But Hugh, go back to
that defense for a little bit, man, some general thoughts
on the d tomorrow because I think a lot of
us are just kind of relying on the defense to
do what they've done for the last maybe eight or
nine weeks and carry the day tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
I got so many thoughts just watching the tape, love
and watching the tape. But random shout out to Byron
Murphy coming out of Texas.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
His last year there.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
With the Longhorns, he was forty eight percent of the
defensive snaps and there was questions about, Hey, why is
he you know, does he have a stamina issue? That's
is our durability issue? And then last year's rookie year
fell to forty three percent of the Seahawks snaps. This
year he jacked it up to seventy three and a
half percent of the snaps played Pro Bowl near all
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pro level, taken on double team, So shout for him. Uh.
Then the other part of it is, you know, when
I watch Kyle Shanahan, he's brilliant offensively, but when a
defense is smacking you in the fact, it's kind of
that that Mike Tyson.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Everybody's got a plan until you get hit in the mouth. Right.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
There's a fine line between Shanahan and the beautiful misdirection
that when it works, and there's a fine line between
very creative and just kind of almost too gimmicky, too
much misdirection. And and it's as if the Seahawks are
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coached like, hey, just let the magic show play out.
They're gonna be all this misdirection in front. At some
point the balls got to declare where it's going. And
there's a couple of plays that just really impressed me.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
The one time that Seattle rushed more than five in
the whole game they played. Coach, some coaches are gonna
shake that ahead and go how could that happen? But
I honest to god, they played a two deep three
under zone. Those are massive holes, and yet the way
they matched it on that fourth down, they were trying
to get Kittle on a sail route the safety, everything
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was bottled up.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
They couldn't get it.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
So they're able to They're playing zone coverage with five
freaking dudes, and they know exactly what's coming at them.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
The other one.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
While Seattle is for the season eighty point four percent
zone four out of five plays they play zone against
these beleaguered forty nine or receivers, they played a little
bit more man and man in the week eighteen game,
and there's guys you know, like Sky Moore, a wide
receiver for San Francisco. Just a dude, man, he's an
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August player, is not a January player. Sorry to pick
on him, but one of my favorite plays was in
a man and man. By the way, nine plays Seattle
in Week eighteen playing cover one, that's man and man.
Every time they played man and man, they had exactly
one safety in the middle of the field, never two.
Never zero one safety and the forty nine ers in
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those nine plays a massed exactly eighteen yards obviously two
yards per play. But one of the plays I really
loved was Reek Wollen. Of all people, Reek walland lines up.
We just heard from Juwan Jennings he wants to smoke
from Seattle. How about this? On that play, he's lined
up in the left slot. They're doing this magic show.
They've got fake fly sweeks, they got running backs going
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this way that way. They're trying to create all this
misdirection and then throw it to jun Jennings. Well, Reek
Willen in man to man, he had to run behind.
There was a if Seattle wasn't better coached, there may
have been a collision with him and Drake Thomas. Drake
Thompson's recognized. He just cleared out the way for Rek
Willing to do his job. He Thomas did his job.
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And Rik wooland you want to talk about a turbo button.
They throw the ball out in the right flat and
Rik Wool and it's like an xbox. He just goes
grabs Juwan Jennings throws him down for a loss of one,
and it's as if to say, you and your little
smoking mirrors, Kyle Shannah and you're doing all this stuff.
You know, it's it looks like some kind of flag
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football from you know, middle schoolers with all this fake
here fake and Seattle just like hit him in the mouth.
I love that physicality. And you watch that tape and
it hits you, like all this mistreat. They're trying to
trick Seattle. They're trying to trick Seattle. They don't want
to line up and play. They used to line up
with ust Jeff and play with the lead fullback. They
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only had three runs from under center and Seattle had
thirty three. Like they are not playing to their identity.
They're trying to trick people, and Seattle was having none
of it. And I don't think they're having any of
it on the game tomorrow night.
Speaker 8 (35:05):
Final thing for me, we've talked about the x's and o's,
we've talked about the physical side. Let's talk about the
psychological side. Because Mike Floria had an interesting quote when
he was on with us on Wednesday. He said, quote,
you have to overcome that it was so easy the
last time. How big a concern is that for you?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (35:21):
He's right, Yeah, I think it's a big concern. I
think that there's a fine line. You'd say, say, how
could it fall? It could be Seattle has a lot
of confidence, and so they just bring that, you know,
essentially into the fifth quarter of a like a soccer jackson.
Don't they play soccer playoff games where it's like a
combination of two games or something like. So Seattle's going
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to want to have that confidence, but you better respect
these guys. Meanwhile, San Francisco, on their part, they could
be a little bit fragile. They might look and say, hey,
this isn't our year. I think the first quarter is
very important. There's a chance could make this an easy contest,
and it would happen in the first quarter, right as
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if to say, yep, lather rints repeat, it's exactly like
week eighteen. But if some plays materialize and San Francisco says,
hey we got a new plant, this is a new day.
Yep h, then you know that could be a factor. Yes,
I agree with Florio, that is a potential.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Let me ask you this, if you win the coin toss,
you want the ball.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
I think you just do what you've done. I think
that they they like to defer. They like that swing,
you know, the eight minutes swing, four minutes to the
last four minutes of the second quarter, first four minutes
and third quarter.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
So I think you just do what you've been doing.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
That tin of twelves are most revved up anyway.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Well that's the thing though, is that if you get
the ball and you shove it down their throat like
you did the last game with an eight minute drive,
that could be a backbreaker. I mean, if you're telling
me the first quarter is that important here, which I
agree with, I wonder if you think about taking the
ball if they win the coin toss tomorrow and shoving
it right down their throat tomorrow. So we'll see, all right, man,
great stuff and looking forward to tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Man, awesome job, buddy.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Rock and roll, go Hawks.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
All right, you're middling with us here. He is Larry Krueger,
knbr is in the house. He's been hanging out for
an hour. He's got nothing, He's got no buddies, no friends,
knows nobody in Seattle. He's been sitting here waiting to
go on the air with us for two hours. He'll
join us next, wipe the chicken wing sauceside their face
and jump on the air with US coming up on
ninety three to three KJIRFM.
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