Seattle Sports Live for Sunday, 11/08

First and goal, Seattle, empty backfield, blocked. Barnyard, Barnyards, welcome to the Barn Show. The Seattle Seahawks turn to number 88 as they rack up a record 11th straight win over the Arizona Cardinals. Despite missing six starters. Hello and welcome to Seattle Sports Live. I'm your host, Lauren Helbrecht. The Seattle Seahawks needed to bounce back from a poor showing on Monday night. But in their loss to the Bears, Seattle also lost its starting quarterback and newly acquired all-pro left guard, Quentin Nelson, and multiple others. Luckily for the Hawks, they hosted the Arizona Cardinals in Week 9 and returned to Seattle form. Seahawks backup Drew Locke making his second start of the season while Sam Darnold is injured. He's facing off against newly named starting QB Gardner Minshew, the former Cougar leading Arizona and hitting Reggie Vergil. Did someone say toe drag? Well, the refs sure seem to think so after a failed Seahawks challenge at the 25-yard completion on third down. The guards go on to kick a field goal still in the first quarter on third down. Locke hits a floater to Jadarian Price. The rookies got speed and hands. Big catch for the running back there. Seattle's first and goal after a barnyard, and if it ain't broke, hey, nothing to fix. A.J. Barner busts in for the score. Seattle takes its first lead. It is 7-3 Hawks. Six minutes left before the break. Here comes the dark side. Byron Murphy, the second, smushes Minshew for a six-yard loss on the sack. The guards have to punt. Seattle now on a two-minute drill before halftime. Drew Locke zips a pass to Jackson Smith-Njigba. He surpasses 1,000 yards receiving this season, becoming the third Hawk to record three straight 1,000-yard receiving seasons. But it's the red zone, and it belongs to Barner. Locke looks and finds his tight end for Barner's second career two-touchdown game. Seattle leads 14-3 at the break. Third quarter, and the price is always right. Jadarian Price making the Cardinals defense miss left, right, and center. He had. Four receptions for 54 yards. He finishes as Seattle's leading receiver. Seattle concludes an 11-play drive with a 45-yard Jason Myers field goal. The only points scored in the second half of this one. The Hawks now lead by 14. And after struggling against the Bears on Monday night, Seattle's red zone defense dominant. The Hawks kept the Cardinals out of the end zone all night. Arizona finishes 0-2 on red zone trips. Seattle sweeps the season series, beating the Cardinals 17-3 and move to 5-4 on the season. I feel like I've found my way as a guy that doesn't get reps as a backup to be ready for a game. So when we got to this week, it's not something that I wasn't used to, to say the least. He's a warrior. He played great today, commanded the offense. I just love the flow that he gets in and gets the rest of the offense in. We certainly feel that. And, um... You know, we know, you know, he can get the job done. You got to weather the storm sometimes or create the storm yourself. And everyone's kind of been going through it. And again, just got to remain focused, block out the noise and trust in your ability and the work that you're putting in every day. We're on the flip side of what we talked about last week, right? You know, being dominant, putting a great performance together, playing complimentary football, producing in the red zone, complimentary on both sides of the ball. Offense went for 100%. You know, we held them 0% in the red zone. It was huge. It was huge for us today. We said this game was like the power of our 70, you know, with the depth we were going to lean on, like the bottom of our roster. And guys did a great job of stepping in, not flinching. Seahawks were listed seven players out for this game, including Sam Darnold, but they held their own. The offense wasn't great, but it didn't need to be. Drew Locke, the backup, finishing 19 of 28 for 175 yards. A touchdown pass and no interceptions, and almost as important, zero sacks. Gardner Minshew was sacked three times, however. All of them were in key situations. After the game, Fox 13's Curtis Crabtree caught up with defensive lineman Byron Murphy II to get his thoughts on a much-needed victory. Throughout the week, we knew what to expect from Minshew. We knew he was a guy that liked to step up in the pocket. I get, you know, uh... We knew he was a guy that stayed with his one read, the read not there. He panics a little bit, but one night we just had to get after him, and that's exactly what we did. We rushed well, got out to Minshew. Thank you. We knew he was going to step up in the pocket, so we had guys in the step-up lane, and we did what we had to do. Seven guys out for you guys today, a number of starters. Leonard's not out there. How do you kind of feel to get this victory with that being the case, not having some of your guys out there? How big is that for you guys? It's really big. You know, it sucks that, you know, we got guys hurt or whatnot, but, you know, them guys eventually will be back, you know, be back healthy real soon. But, you know, it also feels good, but just having that mentality of next man up. He's having that mentality and just knowing them guys, even though they hurt, they got our backs regardless. Just keeping us up and telling them let's keep going. You've seen Drew Locke start a couple games for you guys now. A couple victories, obviously. He's played well in relief of Sam over that time. What kind of faith do you have in him when he steps into the lineup and goes out there to play through the elbow issue he's dealing with as well and play as well as he did today? I got a lot of faith in both of my guys, both of my quarterbacks, Drew and Sam. I'll go to work with them any day. So shout out to Drew for coming through, getting the dub. And also, too, shout out to Sam, man. Pray for a speedy recovery. He'll come back. He's ready to go as well. We're still getting to see what Zach is this year, Zach Charbonnet, coming back from his injury. It looked like some of that spark was back under him today. What have you kind of seen of him in practice, and what do you think of his game today? Man, I see that he's getting back comfortable. He's getting back confident. You can tell he's not thinking. He's just out there playing. He's not worrying about the injury and none of that. He's just out there. He's just out there playing free. He's doing his thing, so, man, it's pretty cool to see him there because it's been a long journey for him, so shout out to Zach. And one more game for you guys before you get a break with the bye. You're seeing a former guy you know in Clint Kubiak down there, the head coach. What are you expecting heading into this Raiders game this week, and what do you need to continue to build upon from this performance to get into the break with another victory? I expect, you know, how I expect every week, you know, to be a battle as usual. I know he's a great OC. You know, obviously we had him here last year. He do a lot of great things on the offensive side of the ball, so I'm looking forward to next week, man, getting after them guys and hopefully getting the win. Byron, thank you very much. Great victory. We'll send it back to you. Thanks, Curtis. We'll have much more Seahawks coverage coming up in the next segment of the show. Aaron Levine and Brian Walters were also at Lumen Field. We'll get their thoughts coming up on Seattle Sports Live. Let's take a look around the NFC West where the San Francisco 49ers had Nick Bosa and DeForest Buckner active, taking on the Seahawks' next opponent, the Las Vegas Raiders. Niners already leading 7-0 with Brock. Purdy scrambles and takes it himself in from one yard out. San Francisco's lead is now two scores. The Raiders respond with a touchdown, but the Niners' offense still chugging along. Purdy hits a wide open Christian McCaffrey for CMC's second score of the night. Raiders trailing 21-10 on the first play of the second half. Kirk Cousins does that. Yeah, pick six. That was the first of, get this, Five second half turnovers for Las Vegas. I think in poker we call that one five of a kind. The Niners retain their top spot in the NFC West and spoil the Raiders' first trip back to the Bay since moving from Oakland in 2020, 38-17, the final. Myles Garrett returns from injured reserve and joins up with Aaron Donald as the Los Angeles Rams take on the Washington Commanders. Jaden Daniels has the lead, he's trying to run, but Myles Garrett. Just too fast. He gets the first sack of the game, forces the fumble. The Rams recover to the fourth quarter now, tied at 13 apiece. Matthew Stafford finds Puka Nacua for the seven-yard score. The Rams go up 20-13. Just over two minutes left in the game. Commanders chugging, and it is banged. Garrett again. He has three sacks in just 25 snaps played. Talk about an impact player. Garrett celebrates his first win with the Rams as L.A. beats Washington 20-13 and move to 5-4 on the season. To college football, and while the Cougs had the weekend off to try and fix their offensive woes, the Huskies showed their issues on offense early on Saturday against Penn State. The Nittany Lions dominated the line of scrimmage in the first half at Husky Stadium Saturday, jumping out to a 28-6 lead at halftime. The Dogs were outgained on the ground 174 yards to 134. In the air, it wasn't much better, 240 yards to 172. 172. As DeMond Williams Jr. returns to the starting lineup. And for a while it looked like UW would pull off a comeback as they closed the score to within three. Then it was two key penalties in the fourth quarter. A targeting call and too many men on the field, which came right after a timeout on defense. That helped Penn State milk the clock and hand the Huskies their fourth straight conference loss at home. That first half, they caused a lot of challenges for us. Thank you very much, Justin. Credit to our coaching staff in the second half. I thought they did a really good job of adjusting and put ourselves in position to win the football game with, I guess it was six and a half minutes left when we scored to make it 28-25, and then it became normal football, but we didn't get the ball back. And we will hear from head coach Jed Fish tomorrow afternoon as the Huskies look to bounce back from this disappointing Penn State loss and prepare to travel to Michigan to take on the Michigan State Spartans on Saturday, November 14th at 1.15 p.m. We'll stick around when we come back on Seattle Sports Live. Sports Director Aaron Levine and Super Bowl champion Brian Walters break down what went right in Seattle's 17-3 win and what the Hawks need to focus on at practice this week. That is next. And the Seattle Sounders staying alive. How Brian Schmetzer's squad found its way into MLS postseason and why the team is ready to move past its regular season woes to make a deep run. X Factor could have gone to a couple players on the Seahawks squad today thanks to solid performances in the air and on the ground, but we picked the one who scored the bulk of the points against the Cardinals. Our Xfinity X Factor goes to Seahawks tight end and fan favorite A.J. Barner. Barner had a one-yard rushing touchdown and also caught a seven-yard touchdown pass from Drew Locke. Both scores gave the Seahawks momentum as they led Arizona 14-3 in the second quarter. This was Barner's first career game with a rushing and receiving touchdown and his second multi-TD game in his career. The Seahawks' defense set the tone early, and their effort carried them the rest of the game, keeping the Cardinals out of the end zone and holding Arizona to 0-2 in the red zone. For more on today's game, we go back to Lumen Field with former Seahawks Brian Walters and our own sports director Aaron Levine. Brian that felt a lot more like Seahawks football today. What impressed you the most from today's win? Well, right off the start, the defense got that red zone stop that we've been waiting for. We know that defense has struggled in the red zone and they actually held Arizona 0 for 2 today in touchdown attempts in the red zone. So I thought that was really a big statement for this defense just because of the... All the negativity in the red zone that we talked about all week and then to have that to go 0-2 and to kind of start dialing that back a little bit because they are the worst in the league. So I thought that was kind of the most impressive thing if you're talking just straight stats and where this team needed to improve. Drew Lock did his thing as backup quarterback. What you want to see, just took care of the ball. And then obviously the one-two punch at running back. It wasn't pretty in the stats. But I think they got the job done. Yeah, and Jadarian Price led the team in receiving yards today, which was really impressive as well. Let's talk about Drew Lock quickly because he now has gone, what, three pretty much full games without a single turnover. The fact that the Seahawks keep winning when he's starting at quarterback. Is that going to create some semblance of a quarterback controversy if and when Sam Darnold gets healthy? The no turnovers thing, we all love it, but you also have to kind of look at some of the plays. He got a little bit lucky on that one, could have been a pick six, went right through the guy's hands, right into Cooper Kupp's hands, but he's doing what you need from a backup quarterback, not making that big mistake, not taking too many risks. He's not firing the ball down the field like crazy, but doing exactly what you need. And again, this team with such a good defense. That they have, if you start turning the ball over it, that's what puts them in a hole. But if you take care of that ball, and you know, sometimes you have to rely on Michael Dixon. To punt a team, pin them back, and make them drive the whole field. And that's tough against this defense. So Drew Locke did exactly what he's supposed to do. A shout out to Michael Dixon, by the way. You mentioned him just there. And pinning the Cardinals back at the one yard line early on in this game. How about Jadarian Price and Zach Charbonnet, and getting them involved in the passing game as well today, something that I believe a lot of fans really wanted to see and maybe expected going into this season and hadn't really seen until today. Well, and remember, that was one of the things of Jadarian Price coming out of college. Well, can he catch the ball out of the backfield? He hadn't really had that many opportunities. And today you kind of showed, he showed that he can do it. And he really was that spark early on in this game, that nice little floater that Drew Locke threw to him early on that third down conversion. And another one later where he kind of made that guy miss and bursted up that left sideline. So really impressive to see him just do it in, in ways that you wouldn't expect, I guess, a running back. You expect a handoff break it, but he did it out of the backfield, catching the pass, catching the ball, but then the Charbonnet, Charbonnet is the exciting one to me because he had some runs. That we haven't seen from a running back this year. And one of them, I believe, was actually a catch. But was called back, unfortunately. But that's what you want to see from Zach Charbonnet. Coming back from an ACL, that's what you've been missing this whole first half of the season, and he just shows how tough he is to bring down and how he can give you that extra burst. So you mentioned that play by Zach Charbonnet. Do we need to do a deep dive in the NFL rulebook? Because what happened with the officiating earlier today, essentially taking two takeaways away from the Seahawks defense, one on a Josh Jobe interception. He was called for defensive pass interference, unfortunately. And then... A forward progress called on his Trey McBride fumble that really shouldn't have been forward progress. Yeah, the pass interference, for sure, I was baffled by. I was kind of looking at it like, what is he supposed to do? McBride just kind of fell over with a little bit of contact. Looked like they were battling a little bit. That should be a no-call all day, every day. That was a great play by Josh Jobe. The forward progress, yeah, another questionable one by the officials. But I feel like... It was an odd day. I felt like every call almost went against you. So, again, that's what makes this win so much better, I think, because when you have all the calls go against you, it's what it feels like. It always feels like that as a home team, I guess. Yeah. I mean, it feels like a trend this season, though. I mean, more so than other years. Yeah. But when you feel that, I think to be able to kind of take control of a game still with those penalties, still. Dig yourself out of some of those holes you got with those penalties. I think that shows a lot about this team. Do you understand the offsetting penalty on the Zach Charbonnet situation? Because I feel like even with that Jalen Sundell penalty, it should have been from the spot of where Charbonnet ended that play. Yeah, and that's what we were all talking about in the press box, too. So I wasn't exactly sure on that. Maybe I'm sure the refs got that right, what it's supposed to do. But I know that a dead ball penalty or a pre-snap penalty like the false start is negated by a personal foul. We had that happen last year, too. I remember that situation, and we dug into it. But the fact that it was after the play was dead penalty, I don't understand why it wasn't first down, move the ball back up from that. So I had to do some research into that one. Finally, first time in his career that A.J. laBarbera finishes a game with a receiving touchdown and a rushing touchdown. Are the Seahawks ever going to not do the barnyard play at the goal line going forward? I probably would really limit the goal line playbook and just have it barnyard, barnyard, barnyard for about your top three plays at this point, how successful it has been. Well, the Seahawks back in the winning column going to Las Vegas next week. Let's head back to the studio and Lori. Thanks, Aaron and Brian. Still on the way, one local soccer team fights to make it to the postseason while another tries to stay alive, and we'll hear from the M's new skipper and why he says he's the right person for the job right now. Seattle Sports Live wraps up when we return. We'll be right back. Tonight's McDonald's Magic Moment goes to the Seattle Sounders' pivotal win on Decision Day. Albert Rusnak got the rave green on the board in the first minute. Seba Gomez adds a second goal, and Seattle moves from 10th in the Western Conference to 8th and earn a spot in the postseason with their 2-1 victory over LAFC yesterday. The Sounders end a five-game winless streak that... Left them on the outside looking in and could have resulted in the team missing the postseason for just the second time since 2009. Instead, Brian Schmetzer's side will host nine-seed Real Salt Lake on Thursday, November 19th at 7 p.m. in the MLS wildcard match. And I, you know, this is a team that has a lot of experience in playoff soccer and I'm pretty confident that, you know, whoever we end up lining up against is not going to be thrilled about having to play us. If they commit to themselves like they did for this game, It's a good enough team to make a deep run in the playoffs. It's a good team. We just have to get the pieces right, get everybody playing to their top level. And yes, I absolutely believe that we can make some noise. Playoff soccer for Reign FC trying to ensure it's not the final game of Jess Fishlock's career. Gotham FC jumps out to a quick start in the quarterfinals. Off a set piece, Jordan Buggs defending and the football bounces in. That is considered an own goal, giving Gotham a 1-0 lead. Seattle had its chances, especially in the second half, 51st minute. Mia Fishl, nice shot, but tipped over the crossbar for a save. Seattle would push time and time again, but had nothing to show for it. One last chance on a free kick. It is wide and the whistle is ultimately going to blow Gotham's way. 1-0 the final. Fishlock leaves the field for the Reign FC's final time. Seattle's season comes to an end in the quarterfinals. As for the Seattle Mariners, the new skipper was introduced this past week. Jason Kanzler will begin his first job as a big league manager. He addressed the media Wednesday for the first time since taking the job. And Fox 13's Lauren Donovan was in the room where it all went down. He's taught high school physics and helped coach a World Series winner. Now Jason Kanzler is taking the reins of the Seattle Mariners without ever having managed a team. I bring a unique... path, a unique set of skills and experiences. At 36, Kanzler is baseball's second youngest active manager. He replaces Dan Wilson after the Mariners finished with 76 wins and 86 losses, missing the playoffs just a year after coming within one win of the World Series. I'm the right man because I believe that every player and every person can be better. And I think these players... So deeply want to be better and to grow and to win as a unit. Kanzler's path here, it started on the diamond. Drafted in 2013 by the Minnesota Twins as an outfielder, he spent three seasons in the minor leagues. Then Kanzler retired and made a serious pivot. High school physics, that is. Kanzler began teaching it at Katy High School in Texas, and that, too, is where he got his start in coaching. By 2019, he had skyrocketed up to the Houston Astros as a minor league hitting coach. Three years later, he'd find himself on the biggest stage in all of baseball when the team won the World Series. Most recently in 2024, the Chicago Cubs brought him on as director of their And now, look where we are. I realized very quickly throughout it that managing a major league club is just the pinnacle of what I was already doing as a farm director, where I had to manage an entire minor league system. This is just at a way higher magnitude, with brighter lights, with a third deck. Reporting at T-Mobile Park, Lauren Donovan, Fox 13 News. And finally, NASCAR has a repeat champion on the Cup Series. Kyle Larson earned his third championship as the Cup Series season wrapped up today in Miami. He is the first driver to win back-to-back titles since 2010 when Jimmy Johnson won the last of his five championships in a row. Larson also became the 11th driver in Cup Series history to win three titles, joining such names as Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Jeff Gordon, and Cale Yarbrough. That'll do it for this edition of Seattle Sports Live. For Curtis Crabtree, Aaron Levine, Brian Walters, Lauren Donovan, and the whole Fox 13 sports team, I'm Lauren Helbrecht. Rest up and enjoy the start of your week.