Kevin and Daniel take one of the more deflating three-day stretches in recent Seattle sports memory and walk through it the honest way — by reading what the people responsible actually said. Jedd Fisch takes the blame for a two-minute clock blunder in an ugly home loss to unranked Minnesota. Mike Macdonald explains the Seahawks' first loss since last November. And Jerry Dipoto opens his end-of-season presser with a line that will get quoted all week, on a day the Mariners moved on from Dan Wilson and most of his staff. Plus a Rick Rizzs sendoff and a UW quarterback rushing-yards Top 5.
Chapters
00:00 — Blue Scholars, high school dances, and Seattle nostalgia
02:03 — Setup: one of the most downer three-day stretches in Seattle sports
02:30 — The Huskies lost at home to unranked Minnesota
03:29 — Fisch’s two-minute clock blunder — “That’s my fault”
04:49 — Does Fisch have too much on his plate with no true OC?
06:46 — The resurfaced 2018 tweet: Fisch was McVay’s clock-management guy
13:30 — The three-year slow-start pattern
14:25 — Something’s missing: the “belief” factor
15:43 — Demond Williams isn’t the player he was last year — yet
16:51 — The Seahawks lost for the first time since November
17:03 — Macdonald: “We were minus-three in the takeaway department”
18:34 — Darnold looked healthy and mobile
19:30 — 31 points despite the turnovers; the Jadarian Price fumble problem
20:10 — Why the loss might actually be good for them
20:55 — 44 rushing yards — worried about the run game?
25:56 — The Mariners cleaned house
26:30 — Wilson out (leaked Sunday); Acta, Seitzer, Hill, Young let go
27:19 — Keeping Woodworth and Edgar
28:00 — Dipoto: “If I didn’t have a job today, it’d be justified. We failed.”
28:51 — Does Dipoto deserve a third managerial hire?
31:07 — The Pete Carroll-style “mutual” exit framing
32:29 — Dan Wilson’s solo presser was hard to watch
34:04 — The clubhouse liked him — so whose fault is this?
36:51 — The manager candidates board
42:09 — A Rick Rizzs sendoff after 41 of the franchise’s 50 years
49:17 — Top 5: UW quarterbacks by career rushing yards
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