On today’s Daily Puck Drop, Jason “Puck” Puckett is under the weather but fights through to welcome is normal Friday guests, which include Jim Moore, former Seahawks linebacker Lofa Tatupu, and PuckSports handicapper TroyWins.com. No Chris Egan today, because he has the same bug as Puck and taking the Friday off.
Puck and Jim open up the talking about the college football playoffs and the craziness of sports the last two weeks with so much happening during the holiday break. Puck promotes that he’s going to talk to Washington State athletic director Anne McCoy later on Friday and is excited to hear her talk about new head coach Jimmy Rogers and what happened with Jake Dickert.
20:10 - Lofa Tatupu joins Puck and Jim to discuss the Seahawks final game of the season and how weird it is to play a game and have nothing to play for. They speculate on the future of quarterback Geno Smith, the potential last game for Tyler Lockett in a Seahawks uniform, the complicated future of D.K. Metcalf and was this season a success under first year head coach Mike Macdonald?
44:31 - PuckSports handicapper, TroyWins.com stops by to go over his best picks for the next week of football including the last weekend of the NFL season and college football playoffs semifinals. Also, it’s the last week for the Puck the Picker Pig Skin Pick ‘Em and Puck announces the top five who are competing for a trip for two to Las Vegas for the first round of March Madness, courtesy of TroyWins.com
1:02:05 - Puck and Jim come back to talk about a weird tweet from UCONN head coach Jim Mora Jr. on alleged tampering involving Washington State’s football program. Both Puck and Jim find it odd why he would air out the Cougars and they both believe it’s directly tied to him not getting the Cougars job. A job that he desperately wanted to have.
1:13:56 - “Hey, What the Puck!?” Puck honors and talks about the outstanding career of Tyler Lockett. Sunday will no doubt mark the final game for Lockett in a Seahawks jersey.
