Brock and Salk

How can the Seahawks win this playoff game against a team that has the 49ers as 10-point favorites? Brock & Salk discuss the [few] opportunities they see. An old favorite Brock & Salk segment "Which Is Better" returns to answer some burning hypothetical, sports-adjacent questions. Brock's 'Blue 88' answers: why did Sam Huard enter the transfer portal and where could he fit, how does a healthy Deebo Samuel impact this matchup, what must Geno Smith do and not do Saturday? 

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The Kraken keep stacking wins on the road and get to 5 in a row against some really good teams. Salk is blown away by the change in the lines from one year to the next and gives Hakstol a lot of credit. We revisit yesterday's conversation w/ Joe Davis (Fox Sports) ahead his Seahawks/49ers broadcast before Salk tackles the idea of a playing a team 3 times in a season & how the results show an open window.

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We play a little NFL Buy or Sell ahead of wild card weekend. Then, we discuss Pete Carroll's biggest thing the Seahawks need to to beat the 49ers and Justin and Salk have another edition of Ranked themed around an idea that they don't remember. 

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The Mariners signed AJ Pollock but were unable to land Salk's choice of Brandon Belt who goes to Toronto for one year, $9.3M. Brock & Salk agree they still need another bat at that caliber and those are running out. Salk learns the M's tied for 8th in Vegas odds to win the WS right now. Fox Sports Analyst (and former Brock Huard partner) Joe Davis joins Brock & Salk to ahead of his call of Saturday's Wild Card game and share his insight on AJ Pollock.

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Pete seemed pretty darn confident that they have something for the Niners. Salk thinks maybe it's because they're the only team to keep them to 21 or fewer points in their last six games, but this is such a different feeling for a Seahawks playoff team because Salk says it doesn’t feel like any of the previous versions. Brock's 'Blue 88' answers which Seahawk played one of his best games of the season, who were the two Seahawks Coach Carroll compared and said were the same guy offensively and defensively and what he saw watching Georgia's Jalen Carter.

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After last night's massive CFB Championship blowout Salk asks if it matters how much your fanbase cares? How do they affect the outcome of games, a franchise, or culture? It seems more possible in college, but how can pro fans affect their team best? Accountability? Unbridled support? Noise? The Kraken dominated Toronto and Montreal the last few nights and we know a Canadian team hasn’t won the cup in forever. We revisit yesterday's Pete Carroll Show.

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Brock and Salk discuss the latest updates in the NFL coaching world, with Kliff Kingsbury and Lovie Smith being fired and the Broncos interviewing a number of candidates. Then, Pete Carroll joins Brock and Salk to discuss yesterday's big win and cheering on the Lions. He breaks down Ken Walker's adjustments, a "perfect" TD from Geno Smith to Tyler Lockett, Quandre Diggs huge interception, facing the 49ers for a third time and why he wore a baseball cap yesterday.

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Salk says the conversation today would have been much different if the Seahawks lost because the questions surrounding what happens next at QB are coming. The Mariners sign OF AJ Pollock to a one-year, $7m deal and that could mean the conversation about Bryan Reynolds is over. Brock & Salk share a plethora of Takeaways from the game and note how effective the run game (197 yards) was and how they were able to pressure Mayfield.

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Brock & Salk believe the Seahawks are here because they made a smart bet about the NFC's aging QBs and Salk says that’s why they didn’t tank or rebuild; they just put the best product out there they could knowing that the conference was up for grabs. Salk eats (a lot) more crow about his previous week's prediction(s) before Brock's Blue 88 answers: how big of a deal is the drop from 3rd to 5th in the draft? What was the Seahawks strategy burning timeouts and running three consecutive times from inside 2 yard line? Geno’s game was ___?

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Yesterday was a very wild ride in the NFL with the amount of things that went wrong for the Seahawks in the first half of the day, but Salk is happy to eat crow over his comments from last week about how the Lions had "0.0% chance" to beat the Packers at home. Salk opens the phones for fans to answer the question: Why are the Seahawks in the playoffs?

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