Dave 'Softy' Mahler and Dick Fain

With so many guys leaving, the Husky defense is likely to go through growing pains. Luckily, the beginning of the season sets up nicely for the team to find itself. For whatever the defense is losing, the offense is likely to gain next year as the team continues to grow. Petros Papadakis discusses what's ailing the Dawgs in big games, and what exactly is going on at USC. Textimonials react to the discussion of Jake Browning and the Dawgs.

Michael Bennett joined Cliff and Puck and he had some interesting insights into the Hawks, so we decided to play back some of the highlights. It's interesting how a guy no longer with the team is paying so much attention to what's going on here. Kevin Harlan previews all four of this weekend's NFL divisional round playoff games. Gary Bettman is in town today. He spent a few minutes with Softy and Dick discussing the new franchise, the league's involvement here, and what makes the sport of hockey different. Softy, bringing back up the earlier topic of Tre and Shaq as the starting corners next year, says he's okay with it as long as they've beat out the competition. They've not earned automatic starting spots on this team.

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Now that the 2018 college football season has ended, it's time to revisit the topic of what to do about the Honks next year with Hugh's son playing for Oregon. Are we going to have to boot him from the Honks? Maybe just for the week the Dawgs play the Ducks? Can he be impartial (or more importantly, partial toward the purple and gold)? The San Jose Mercury News' Jon Wilner looks at the state of the Pac-12 after the 2018 season, including the mess at USC now with newly-hired Kliff Kingsbury taking a job in the NFL. What does the conference need to do differently? Jon makes early 2019 football predictions, and spends a little time talking basketball. Textimonials weigh in on how to address the Honks in 2019.

Walter Jones has a few thoughts on the end of the Seahawks season, whether to bring back KJ Wright, and if changes need to be made to the offensive line. Mike Florio of PFT discusses all things NFL, including the Hawks / Dallas game, coaching situations around the league, and picks for this weekend. He joined the show yesterday confident in a Bama victory, but Ryan Fowler of Tide 102.9 was wrong. He's back on the show today to explain what happened. Dave Tippett is away this week, so it's the return of Tuesdays with Tod. Tod Leiweke gives us all the latest from NHL Seattle including potential timelines for a team name, seats, gear, the opening of the training facility, and more.

We knew this day would come. Despite their success this season, despite beating the expectations of almost everyone, we knew it would likely have to come to an end. It's disappointing, but they've set themselves up nicely for future seasons, and hopefully deeper playoff runs. Yeah, the season was a success, but the game on Saturday? There's plenty to pick apart. Softy believes the team should have changed strategies when it was apparent that the run wasn't working. How early should they have given the ball to Russell Wilson? Everyone's got thoughts on the game. We ask listeners for their number one reason the Hawks lost on Saturday.

Calls continue to come in on the biggest reason the Hawks lost on Saturday. Obviously our kicking game wasn't on point, and Janikowski going down didn't help. Could his injury, at least in part, be because he isn't healthy? If Seabass isn't back next year (and he probably won't be) it'll be the fourth kicker for the team in four years. There aren't a lot of good kickers out there though; not even at the college level. Bama takes on Clemson tonight and Ryan Fowler from Tuscaloosa's Tide 102.9 makes his way to the West Coast to watch the game. He joins us from Santa Clara to explain why he is sure the Tide will be victorious. Textimonials come in at 49451 on the biggest Hawks problems, and the College Football Championship game.

Softy caught up with Pete Carroll after his press conference today for a few minutes one-on-one, talking about the success of the 2018 season, and what didn't work in Saturday's game. Dick asks Twitter how they feel Schottenheimer did this season, and despite a lot of blame for the Dallas game, overall opinions were high. We roll back the audio from Cody Parkey's blocked kick from yesterday, from Merrill Reese of Eagles Radio, Jeff Joniak of Bears Radio, and one of the greatest calls ever from Rickie Ricardo on the Spanish-language Eagles Radio call. Will we see KJ back next year. He speaks with a few reporters about his season, and entering free agency following the game over the weekend.

Dick Fain along with Softy and special guests Mike Holmgren and Curtis Crabtree break-down the Seahawks loss to the Dallas Cowboys in the wild-card round of the playoffs.

Tomorrow we finally find out who advances beyond Wild Card Weekend. In many ways the teams are evenly matched, and odds-makers are giving Dallas the slight edge, but when it comes down to the 4th quarter with a close game, would you rather have Wilson or Prescott on your side? How will this thing end? We're at the VMAC every Wednesday, but only as long as the Hawks are playing. Will we be in Renton on Wednesday? Sometimes people need the cloak of anonymity to be truly honest, so we take anonymous calls from fans to find out their true opinions of the game. Dick Fain was in the locker room talking with Chris Carson about Oklahoma State vs. Missouri, and of course this weekend's game in Dallas.