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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus, powered by Seahawks dot Com. Now here's your host,
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  Speaker 1: Na's a Chobie.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of Hawk Talk. It's that time.
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  Speaker 2: Come on NFC Championship game. The Los Angeles Rams coming
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  Speaker 2: to Loominfield. Seahawks, first time making appearance in this game
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  Speaker 2: since the twenty fourteen season. It's gonna be live. It's
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  Speaker 2: going down, bump I'm excited. Round three, the Rams. Let's
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  Speaker 2: get it man. Round three.
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  Speaker 3: It's rare you play two teams three three times in
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  Speaker 3: one season, but that's how good the NFC West is.
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  Speaker 3: We knew something like this was gonna happen, probably gonna
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  Speaker 3: be the Seahawks and the Rams.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone projected. It is finally here. Let's trap them up. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: When we interviewed the play by play voice for the
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  Speaker 2: Rams the last matchup, JB. Long, he said he's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: we have film. These two teams are gonna play again.
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  Speaker 2: It's just where will that third game be? Right, Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's at looming here in front of the twelve, So
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be really fun. You know, both teams this season,
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  Speaker 2: the Rams were the class of the NFC at one
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  Speaker 2: point everyone's they were the best team in the league.
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  Speaker 2: They kind of fell off after that Week sixteen game.
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  Speaker 2: They've obviously done their thing to get back to this moment,
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  Speaker 2: so it should be pretty fun looking at this matchup.
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  Speaker 4: But let's dive right into it. What's on tap?
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  Speaker 1: What's on tap?
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  Speaker 4: These Rams?
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  Speaker 2: They were twelve and five regular season, second in the
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  Speaker 2: NFC West. I'll jump to the postseason because that's what
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  Speaker 2: it's about now. Second season, they won against the Panthers
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  Speaker 2: thirty four to thirty one in the wildcard round and
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  Speaker 2: then twenty two seventeen over the Chicago Bears in the Divisional.
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  Speaker 2: Man and bump. It was cold as hell in Chicago, man,
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  Speaker 2: it I mean I'm just watching it.
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  Speaker 4: I felt over.
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  Speaker 3: You see the little snowface coming down. Man, it was freezing, man.
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  Speaker 3: And but you know, the Rams proved that they could
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  Speaker 3: they can play in some cold weather.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it was cold when I Puna Ford former Seahawks,
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  Speaker 2: So you got love for that, man. But they were
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  Speaker 2: talking about putting Kayenne Pepper and their yeah, all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of stuff like that Scooba gear, all that stuff. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: they got it done, bump. What do you see from
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  Speaker 2: that game?
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  Speaker 3: The first drop of the game, the Bears were driving
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  Speaker 3: down the field, but after coming up short in the
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  Speaker 3: resident they decided to go four to fourth and two
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  Speaker 3: for the Rams twenty one yard and kayleb was intercepted
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  Speaker 3: by Kobe Durant Coplder. He's an interesting guy because his
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  Speaker 3: numbers are better than his play. To me respect, he's
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  Speaker 3: a starting quarter in the league. But he I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think he leads the league and interceptions in the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs like he's been getting a lot of opportunities, he
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  Speaker 3: making most of him. The Rams responding with a fourteen
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  Speaker 3: play eighty five yard drive anyway, a Common wins four
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  Speaker 3: yard touchdown that made the score seven to zero, and
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  Speaker 3: the Bears that will respond with twelve play eighty yard
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  Speaker 3: drive with their own DJ Moore get a touchdown reception
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  Speaker 3: that tied the game at seven.
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  Speaker 4: The next drive. The next five drives will not end
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  Speaker 4: at any points.
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  Speaker 2: Both teams would trade field goals to make the score
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  Speaker 2: ten to ten, and a half third quarter will produce
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  Speaker 2: zero points as well, in an interception from Caleb Williams
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  Speaker 2: on the first possession of the fourth quarter. Though the
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  Speaker 2: Rams take a seventeen to ten lead. After a fourteen
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  Speaker 2: play ninety one yard drive ending with another Kyum Williams touchdown,
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  Speaker 2: and then a turnerover on downs in a Rams punt,
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  Speaker 2: the Bears got the ball back down seven, needing a
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  Speaker 2: touchdown with one fifty left. Bears moved the ball pretty good,
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  Speaker 2: but they were facing fourth and four from the Rams
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  Speaker 2: fourteen yard line with eighteen seconds.
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  Speaker 3: Left, and Caleb come with this gracious man pulled on
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  Speaker 3: one of the craziest plays that we've ever seen. He
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  Speaker 3: was facing pressure, he scrambled backwards for it was the
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  Speaker 3: forty yard line and then threw up a prayer. The
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  Speaker 3: prayer was answered by Cole Comet as he brought down
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  Speaker 3: the Hell Mary's somehow tying the score at seventeen's. I
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  Speaker 3: remember watching this play at a local tavern, Okay, and
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  Speaker 3: no one was talking to each other before that. After
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  Speaker 3: that play, we all knew each other because everyone's going crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Man, that was one of the best throws of the year.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's probably maybe a handful of I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to name them all, but maybe a handful of
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the NFL that can do that. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: part of me though, sorry, and maybe it's the defensive
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  Speaker 2: guy in me.
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  Speaker 4: How do you let that happen? You get disconnected?
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  Speaker 2: Holy smokes, what is the one thing you can't do
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  Speaker 2: in that situation? Let people behind you in the second area?
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  Speaker 2: Holy you get sticky. And then it felt like it
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  Speaker 2: was reminiscent of the two point version of Nancy Championship
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  Speaker 2: game against Green Bay or haha, Clinton.
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  Speaker 4: Dix like got his feet kind of stuck in the mud.
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  Speaker 4: Get off the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway that play happens, that would force overtime, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bears you're thinking they're gonna win.
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  Speaker 4: They get a stop.
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  Speaker 2: You think, oh my goodness, the Rams are gonna fall
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  Speaker 2: right here to get the ball back Kile Williams.
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  Speaker 4: And after that he gets down there, they go three
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  Speaker 4: and out.
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  Speaker 2: The Rams they come, they do the rest, They go
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  Speaker 2: martch down, they kick a field goal, they win the
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  Speaker 2: football game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Good teams get lucky sometimes too. You feel like they
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  Speaker 3: got lucky right there. Matthew Stafford had himself and all
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  Speaker 3: right day twenty and forty two to two, thy eight,
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  Speaker 3: no touchdowns, no interceptions. Karen Williams had twenty one cars
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  Speaker 3: for eighty seven yards. And two touchdowns. Pooka had five
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  Speaker 3: recevens for fifty six. Caleb on the other side twenty
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  Speaker 3: three for forty two, two fifty seven, two touchdowns and
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  Speaker 3: three interceptions still in the game, and he threw three interceptions.
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  Speaker 4: That was tough.
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  Speaker 2: You got the ball to the mid midfield and you
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  Speaker 2: throw that pick in overtime miscommunication bump, that's on Caleb
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  Speaker 2: or the receiver.
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  Speaker 4: You think both.
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  Speaker 3: Le's yeah, you get you know, remember there's an interception.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone's held responsible. Yeah, unless you just run the completely
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  Speaker 3: wrong route and you know what the heck you doing
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  Speaker 3: out there.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was a tough end to their season, but they
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  Speaker 2: had a great year. I mean, Ben Johnson did a
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  Speaker 2: lot in year one, so it'd be interesting to see
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  Speaker 2: what happens. It was not their night that sets up
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  Speaker 2: what we thought was gonna happen the entire time. Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: rams wouldn't have it any other way. Coming to Loomenfield,
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  Speaker 2: Who's quickly lift the head to head matchup bump. You're
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  Speaker 2: facing one of the top defenses, one of the top
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  Speaker 2: offenses in this game. Looking at the Seahawks offensive numbers,
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  Speaker 2: they were eighth in the league regular season in yards.
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  Speaker 2: They were thirteen points per game, eighth and pass tenth
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  Speaker 2: and rushing offense. The Rams offense number one almost cross
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  Speaker 2: the board, one in total offense, seventh in pass offense
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  Speaker 2: one or see me, seventh in rush offense, one in
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  Speaker 2: passing offense, one in points per game.
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  Speaker 4: So we know they can put up points.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they can do it, but they're playing against a
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  Speaker 3: tough defense. For sixth overall, third against the run, tenth
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  Speaker 3: against the pass. First when it comes to allowing points,
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  Speaker 3: the Rams seventeenth overall, twelfth against the rum, nineteenth against
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  Speaker 3: the pass, and tenth when it comes to giving up
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  Speaker 3: points twenty points four. The Rams have intersephn sixty sixteen
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  Speaker 3: times and the Seahawks have intercepted the ball eighteen times
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to seas all squared up at forty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a number one offense defense. The last time
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  Speaker 2: this happened in conference championship game the Seahawks and Green
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  Speaker 2: Bay Packers. We know how that one ended, so hopefully
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  Speaker 2: we'll get some of those same fireworks. But these teams
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  Speaker 2: obviously very familiar with each other.
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  Speaker 4: Let's know the history, No, your history.
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks lead all time series twenty nine to twenty eight,
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine to twenty six. In the regular season, Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: are zero to two against the Rams. In the postseason,
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks have won two of the last three meetings. The
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  Speaker 2: last game one of the best all season, one of
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  Speaker 2: the best all season. The Seahawks come out right away
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  Speaker 2: in that first drive, march down the field, thinking, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is gonna be a different game. The Rams do
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  Speaker 2: their thing for a while in there, and all those
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  Speaker 2: fast forwards to the end bump. Rams are up big,
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  Speaker 2: They're up thirty to fourteen. Hawks are driving down to
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  Speaker 2: make it a one score game. You think they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get back in the football game. Sam Darnold intercepted for
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  Speaker 2: the second time ninety eight and fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 4: It looked bad, but the game was over Seahawks defense.
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  Speaker 2: They get a big stop, and you know, we're thinking,
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  Speaker 2: the only way the Seahawks can get back in the
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  Speaker 2: game is if they kicked the Rashiha heat. He does
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  Speaker 2: the rest, He scores a touchdown, gets him back in
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  Speaker 2: the game. Get another stop, Agent Arnor in the end zone,
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  Speaker 2: touchdown boom. Two two point conversions that were crazy. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you have the sharburn a one where people forgot all
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  Speaker 2: that happened anyway, Boom, the Seahawks tie up this thing.
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  Speaker 4: The Rams will miss a field goal. Both teams will punt.
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  Speaker 4: You go to overtime. Once you're in overtime, the Rams
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  Speaker 4: they marched down the field. They score right away.
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  Speaker 2: Pookin'akoul, who was killing the Seahawks in that first game,
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  Speaker 2: he did his thing.
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  Speaker 4: They score. The Seahawks get the ball back. For everything
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  Speaker 4: we heard.
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  Speaker 2: About Sam Darnold, what he can and can't do in
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  Speaker 2: big games, people will continue not to give the man
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  Speaker 2: the respect he deserves. We'll give to him right here.
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  Speaker 2: You know you had to go down you had a
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  Speaker 2: score touchdown. You know you had to get go for
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  Speaker 2: two if you do score touchdown, because a tie would
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  Speaker 2: have done nothing.
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  Speaker 4: In that point. The Seahawks needed to pass the Rams
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  Speaker 4: and the standings to get to where they are today.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly what they did.
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  Speaker 2: Darnold cooks up with Jay Sad and back the end
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  Speaker 2: zone touchdown, then hooks up with Eric Sobert for the
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  Speaker 2: two point conversion to win the football game. Seahawks win
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  Speaker 2: thirty eight to thirty seven. The Seahawks improved to six
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  Speaker 2: and two at home last year. There are three and six,
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  Speaker 2: so you could just start at that moment. Okay, now, yep,
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  Speaker 2: they're here, and quite frankly, the Seahawks have not lost
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  Speaker 2: a game since they lost in the Rams in week eleven,
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  Speaker 2: so things have been rolling since that moment. Round three
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be fun bump. One thing to note, we'll
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  Speaker 2: see if this changes on Sunday. Change Sean McVay three
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  Speaker 2: and zero in the playoffs against NFC West opponents that
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  Speaker 2: included being the Seahawks here at Leominfield. Don't know, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't count, No fans were here, and I can talk
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  Speaker 2: about that game because I still anyway, But it's a
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  Speaker 2: new new time, new year. I'm excited for it. Round three,
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  Speaker 2: let's get it. But quickly we're gonna take a trip
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  Speaker 2: around the NFCUS.
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  Speaker 1: What's the word and the Seahawks or the NFC West
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  Speaker 1: champs again.
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  Speaker 4: What's the word in the West?
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  Speaker 3: On Hawk talk? Honestly, ya already know what the word is.
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  Speaker 3: Seahawks run the division fourteen three Rams, twelve and five.
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  Speaker 3: Nine ers are out last week goodbyepacking bags there were
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  Speaker 3: twelve and five and the Cardinals at the bottom. The
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  Speaker 3: best division of football has one more chapter. But first
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  Speaker 3: a couple of quick notes on how good this division
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  Speaker 3: has been. The forty nine Ers, the Rams, and the
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  Speaker 3: Seahawks were forty seven versus everyone else. This year, the
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  Speaker 3: NFC West joined the twenty twenty two NFC East in
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  Speaker 3: the nineteen ninety seven seven NFL Central.
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  Speaker 4: That's weird.
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  Speaker 3: In the nineteen ninety two NFL East as the only
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  Speaker 3: division with three teams in the divisional round of the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs and in the playoffs, the NFC West has four wins.
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  Speaker 4: The other NFC divisions have one. Now there's two two
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  Speaker 4: to go. Baby.
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  Speaker 3: You already talked about the Rams and the Bears. The
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  Speaker 3: forty nine is the Seahawks. You know how that went down?
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  Speaker 4: Man? Do we need to relive that forty one six?
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  Speaker 4: You know the beat down? Beat down?
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  Speaker 3: The Cardinals have been chilling for a while throughout the house,
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  Speaker 3: so we'll need to talk about them the fastest. What's
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  Speaker 3: the word in the West we've ever done. That means
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  Speaker 3: there's not much to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: There's not much to talk about the forty nine ers
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  Speaker 2: until injury they lose. Alla dank Sall is a great coach.
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  Speaker 2: He spent the time in Seattle, went back to San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco to get things figured out defensively, and he's going
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  Speaker 2: to Tennessee. So we'll see the Cardinals. They still have
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  Speaker 2: a head coach, but they're in a different They're an
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  Speaker 2: offseason mode. We're not an off season We're focused on
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  Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Rams. Man up, Hey, who you got,
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  Speaker 2: Who you got?
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  Speaker 4: You know what time it is?
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  Speaker 1: Man up, man up, brother, Man up man up on
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  Speaker 1: Hawk Talk.
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  Speaker 2: We start we always do, starting with the quarterbacks. Matthew
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  Speaker 2: Stafford probably the league's MVP this year. Bump, I'd be
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  Speaker 2: shocked if someone else wanted looking at the people that
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  Speaker 2: are up for that award. Thirty seventy seven, the best season,
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  Speaker 2: or one of the best seasons of his career been
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  Speaker 2: in the league seventeen seasons in the OG in the game,
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  Speaker 2: but he led the league in passing yards, he led
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  Speaker 2: league and passing touchdowns. He led the league yards per
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  Speaker 2: game second, and past rating first, and touchdown percentage first,
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  Speaker 2: and passing touchdowns. Said an NFL record three straight games
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  Speaker 2: at least four touchdown passes, no interceptions, one or two quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 4: NFL hit blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah, A
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  Speaker 4: lot of it. A lot.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the one that I really take note of the
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the regular season, very deadly against the Blitz.
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  Speaker 2: Stafford through a league h had thirty two touchdowns and
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  Speaker 2: just one interception against the Blitz this season, including twenty
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  Speaker 2: four touchdowns without an interception across fifty three red zone
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  Speaker 2: passes and twice as many his next closest quarterback hit
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  Speaker 2: wins at seventeen and three more than the twenty nine
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  Speaker 2: touchdowns Saffage through against the Blitz across his four seasons.
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  Speaker 2: So four years before this year he only had twenty nine.
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  Speaker 2: So he is doing his thing against the Blitz. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of one of those things. If you decide to
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  Speaker 2: bring it, you better get home. You better get home,
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  Speaker 2: and you better not blitz from the same side as
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  Speaker 2: pooking a cool and ask the safety to cover it
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  Speaker 2: from seventeen yards death.
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  Speaker 4: That's my opinion, My opinion only.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's regular season playoffs when he's pressured. Those playoff
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  Speaker 3: numbers are a bit different. Lowis raiding in the NFL
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  Speaker 3: in the playoffs when he is pressured, So what's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be yearn show?
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  Speaker 4: You know? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, But nonetheless, dudes, a baller having himself a great year.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's talk about our quarterback. Sam Darnold.
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  Speaker 3: Fifth in league in passing, seconding yards per tips, seconding
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  Speaker 3: yards per completion, twenty five touchdowns, fourteen interceptions, tied for
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  Speaker 3: the most wins and consecutive seasons by QBA NFL history,
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  Speaker 3: tied with Tom Brady. He's a Pro Bowl this year.
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  Speaker 3: He has nine game winning drives. You know what, he
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  Speaker 3: hasn't performed the best when you look at the numbers
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  Speaker 3: against these guys. Yeah, first time playing against the Rams,
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  Speaker 3: fo o interceptions, don't need to go there. Second time
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  Speaker 3: playing against the Rams did have two interceptions, but two touchdowns,
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  Speaker 3: two hundred and seventy yards.
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  Speaker 4: The divisional game, did exactly what he needs to do.
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  Speaker 3: Twelve to seventeen, one to twenty four, one touchdowns, zero interceptions,
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  Speaker 3: QB rating of one to ten.
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  Speaker 2: So for me, bump, sign me up for that exact statline,
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  Speaker 2: yep on Sunday, because if that's his statline, that means
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  Speaker 2: ken Walker's got one hundred yards, that means they're they're
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  Speaker 2: winning big. But it's all about Sam. We know what
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  Speaker 2: he can do. We've seen it. I think from a
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  Speaker 2: national perspective, all the conversation is can he do it
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  Speaker 2: in a big game. He's already done it. Every game
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  Speaker 2: he's been playing in since that RAM game has been
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  Speaker 2: a big game. He has been doing it. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's proven it. He has another chance to prove it
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday and really silence some of the haters. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think he can fully silence them until he wins
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. And even when he does that, people
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  Speaker 2: are still gonna hate on him. Sam, we got your back.
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  Speaker 2: We know what you're got, you're capable of got you.
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  Speaker 2: Look at another matchup again in this series here Kyle
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  Speaker 2: Williams against the Seahawks Front seven. He had another good
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  Speaker 2: year in twenty twenty five and for a thousand yards
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  Speaker 2: for third trade season. Looking at the matchups against the Seahawks, specifically,
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  Speaker 2: Week eleven, he had twelve carries for ninety one yards
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  Speaker 2: and a touchdown. Week sixteen he had twenty three carries
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  Speaker 2: for seventy yards and just three yards per carry. I
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  Speaker 2: remember bumping that Week eleven matchup. We were concerned that
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  Speaker 2: one hundred yards streak was gonna be in jeopardy because
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  Speaker 2: he had a couple of big runs and again a
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  Speaker 2: thirty four yard run in that first half was completely
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  Speaker 2: shut down.
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  Speaker 4: In the second half.
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  Speaker 2: In wildcard game against the Panthers, he was thirteen carries
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  Speaker 2: fifty seven yards. He had eighteen yards and a touchdown receiving,
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  Speaker 2: and then Divisional twenty one carries eighty seven yards two touchdowns.
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: Now he's doing his thing. I think he's someone who's
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: good in pass protection. Blake Corms another running back who's there.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: This is what the Seahawks do. Though they stopped the run,
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: they're gonna have a test on Sunday. And even last
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: time they played, when they rams had all those yards,
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: they weren't able to run the football. This is really
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: clutch and the standpoint of Matthew Savage good enough as
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: it is, he can't have a two way go. He
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: can't have the running game popping off while he's throwing
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: the ball over the yard. So interesting matchup there, but
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: I advantaged Seahawks in my opinion. Yep, no hundred percent
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: agree Hundbercent. Here's the tough matchup. I think the toughest.
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: One of the Knight's gonna be Pooka Nicole and Davante
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: Adams against our second dary. Look, this is probably the
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: best duo that these guys have faced all year.
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: Pooka has been doing this thing in his career.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: Yes, three out of thirteen receptions four and ninety one
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: yards in nineteen touchdowns this year, one hundred and twenty
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: nine receptions seventeen hundred and fifteen yards in ten touchdowns,
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: first and receptions first and yards per game first in
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: the NFL when it comes to first downs, second in
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: yards type for six when it comes to touchdowns. Look,
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: he's All Pro unanimous selection, received fifty out of fifty
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: first place votes.
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: Nicole is the second.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Is Nicole a second time in three NFL seasons earning
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: All Pro honors. He's a beast man. The first time
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: we saw him seven receptions seventy five yards. Second time,
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: Whoa twelve receptions, two twenty five and two touchdowns. Wild
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: card game he had ten for a buck eleven a touchdown.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: Last game five receptions for fifty six yards. And DeVante,
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, we don't even talk about who he is.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: You hear his name, and you've been watching football for
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: the five to ten years, you know who he is.
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: One of the best in the game. He let the
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: NFL in touchdowns with fourteen and twenty twenty five.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: And he missed some games.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: Sixty receptions, seven hundred and eighty nine yards, fourteen touchdowns.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: The first time he played in one receptions for one
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: yards in a touchdown. Second time we played them, he
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: did not play wild card. He had five for seventy two.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Divisionally had two for twenty four. He became an eighteen
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: player NFL history to surpass a thousand career postseason receiving yards.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: This guy is more a threatening the red zone to
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: me and the like third and short, short yard of stuff.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: He can't get by you if you buy it on
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: a double move. But they have their de threatned puka
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: that have their underneath and Devanta Adams good combo.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: He'll routch you up. He will definitely wrap you up
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: in that tight space. Davante. We know what he can
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: do and up he's zero to four if I if
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: I have this right. In NSC Championship game one of those,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: he was playing in that Green Bay game. I was
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: up in Seattle last time. So he's hungry, right, He's
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: been playing a long time. What's missing in his resume
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: at the Hall of Fame resume it's a Super Bowl ring.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: Hopefully sell to prevent him. There. Let me just back
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: it up real quick, ken Walker.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: I'll let you talk about our receivers in the second
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: year ken Walker, in this Rams defense, this is really
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: as big as that matchup is defensively for the Seahawks.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: On offense, the Seahawks, this is huge.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Ken Walker has been killing the game this year, and
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: specifically the last couple of weeks he went over a
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: thousand yards. We know that the Seahawks is a team
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: rushed for one hundred and six yards and four straight
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: games Week eleven against the Rams.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: He's played well against this team.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Week eleven sixteen carries sixty seven yards in a touchdown,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: three exceptions for forty four yards. Week sixteen eleven carries
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: one hundred yards one touchdown. He had a fifty five
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: yard score. Also is dangerous in the screen game. Had
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: a huge screen pass that set up that first touchdown.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Three exceptions sixty four yards. And now we know Zach
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Sharbney has done for the season with that knee injury.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Walker is going to shoulder most of the load this week.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: But what I love about it is, Hey, you hit
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: your stride at the right time. You're playing your best
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: football at the best time of the year because these
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: two split carries so much this year. I feel like
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Walker is as healthy as he can be going into
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: this game. I think that helps George Lawney was activated
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: from the IR so he's something that could help him.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: That vilis joones to someone who's called it from the
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: practice squad, So I think they have enough running back wise,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: and don't let everyone fool you. Zach Charbonnay is a
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: great pass protecting running back us he is, but it's
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: not like ken Walker has never been out there before.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that kills me. That kills me. Who back like
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: he just don't know what to do back there.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: It's something gets said and it gets repeated, and it's
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: that's the narrative, that's verbatim. Yeah, would you give the
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: edge maybe the Charbonne between the two, Sure, but ken
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Walker is more than capable and he will continue to
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: show that. And honestly, the only time it'd be a
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: huge issue for anything Bump is if the Seahawks are
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: in third and tens all day long. Not be an
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: issue for anyone, any running back in that case. So anyway,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: that's a huge matchup for me. If if ken Walker can
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: do his thing. Continue to do that, that'll be huge
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: for the Seahawks offense.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he should get about five, six or seven more
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: carries just because Sharbonnat being now, I do expect him
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: to sprinkle in some Hallani. All right, let's talk about
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: these receivers, Jaysn, Cooper Cup in Rashid Shahi JSN Man.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: He's the best in the game.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Led the league with seventeen hundred and ninety three yards,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: first when it comes to yards per touch, second in
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: yards per game, fourth in NFL with one hundred and
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: nineteen receptions, tied for six in NFL with ten touchdowns,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: ninth in yards per reception, and a time for the
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: league with exposive plays. He has twenty seven plays for
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: twenty yards or more. Talk about this past game not
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: being explosive. Best season four receiver in see history.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: He has thirteen ninety yard games, the most NFL in
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: NFL history by a guy twenty three years or younger.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Pro Bowl selection, First Team unanimous fifty out of fifty votes.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: There's a bunch of other so we can say about him,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: but best in the game and he and his he's
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: teamed up with Cooper Cup, probably the best role playing
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: receiver in the game right now. Best blocking receiver in
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: the games for sure. He's got forty seven receptions for
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: five to ninety three two touchdowns in two games against
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: the Rams, he has six receptions in over over sixty yards,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: but it's more about his impact getting guys open and blocking.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Divisional game, he had five receptions for sixty yards. He
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: was the leading receiver there.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean you look at all of them
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: and look at their action JSN against these Rams nine
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: reception one five eight receptions, ninety six in a touchdown.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: He's been productive.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: They know what that can happen there, and these guys
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: have done it. And then Rashid Shaheed, which I love
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: what we're seeing from him. He is making away. We
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: still haven't seen that huge reception. I'm waiting to see that.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Let's come that big play in the past game. Almost
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: had it that first time down in LA But obviously
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: we know what he did last time. He blew up
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the Rams special teams unit after what he did there,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: So he's been making play. So all these they just
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: got to challenge these dbs bump. They can't let him
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: jump all the short stuff. They can't let him be
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: in all these stick routes and need to beat him
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: over the top up they've done for a lot of
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: this year, so looking to see that. And then we're
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: looking at these these guys on the front front seven
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Jared Vers, Byron Young, Kobe Turner. There are some dogs.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Let's be straight up. This is another really key matchup
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: for the Seahawks offensive line. Jared Vers had a great
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: year fifty eight tackles, seven and a half sacks, eleven TfL,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: twenty QB hit three four s fumbles, made the Pro
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Bow for the second straight year. In the games against
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Seattle the regular season, seven tackles, half a sack, pass,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: defend a couple QB hits. He played really well last week.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Three tackles, two TFLs, two QB hits. Byron Young, Okay,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: he is another guy that just had the best season
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: of his career. Twelve sacks, sided for eighth in the
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: NFL against the Seahawks. Ten tackles, two QB hits across
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: a couple of games. Solid in the Divisional. Kobe Turner,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: though bump he bawled out against the last game after
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: having just one tackle in Week eleven. He had three tackles,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: one and a half sacks, one TfL, two pass defended,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: two QB hits in one interception. In Week sixteen, he
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: was a problem. He was a problem, and I think
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I've we've heard Gray's abel talk a little bit about it. He,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I think, being a little hard on himself, said he
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: had those two worst games of the year against the
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles Rams, and Turner was one of them that
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: was given him fits a little bit. So I'm really
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: interested to watch seventy six in him link up this
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: week because we know what Gray's been able to do
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: this year. But but these guys can wreck the game
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: if you allow it. So I'm really interested to see
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: how the Seahawks can limit the pressures that they will
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: be able to create.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they they all got big pressure potential. Man, they
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: can hme back the game outside the scorebox. Pressures are
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: are the hitting stats, right. You got to wait for
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: these other entities to kind of give you the pressure
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: numbers for you to really understand the impact that these
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: guys have had. Quarterback hits man the most through four postseasons,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Verse has seven, Kobe Turner has four or excuse me six,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Argus Jones has five. Aaron Donald had five back in
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: his day and that Kevin Green had four. Like it's uh,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: these two defensive lines are gonna be fun to watch.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: It is going to be a battle.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: This is a game where I tell folks, look, don't
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: follow the ball, every singer and look at the big
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: boys in the trenches and see who's winning the line
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: of scrimmage.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: That's one of my favorite things to get to do
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: from the radio booth when you're looking down on the
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: field is I'll just look at it serious and I'll.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Just lock it on one of them. What are they
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: doing today? Right?
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: And then sometimes it pops off and with the Seahawks defense,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: that's a fun activity because whether it's Jay Reed, Leonard Williams, Chenna,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: whoever you name it, they're probably making plays.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: The biggest game at lumin Field in a long time.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Path of victory, We're gonna tell you how the Seahawks
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: get it done.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: After forty five staff Michael Dixon puts it down. That
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: kick is away. If that kick is gone, to say
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: on Gwen, it's gun.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: It's a path to victory on Hawk Talk.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Why you play right here for games like this? When
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I think about an NFL offseason. A lot of people
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: think about training camp. It's all year round. That's what
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: the NFL is. Some say not for long, it's for
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: all the time. The off season were the sprints, the squats,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: the routes, the recovery, the coltsubs, the meeting, the film room.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: This is all that stuff right there for championship Sunday.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks got that opportunity. They've earned the right decisive, relentless, shocking.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Coach McDonald's talking about that all year. They are loose,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: they are focused. If you have watched the hype video
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: that's out on all the SEAX channels, Instagram, x YouTube,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I'm hyped, fired up right now.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: I've watched that.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Probably one hundred thousand times. Just because McDonald's inconsistent. He said, hey,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: let me take you back. This is where you're going
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: to be. That was April fourth, twenty twenty four, long
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: before anyone predicted any of this. He's had a consistent
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: message from the jump. He's had a locker room fit.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Seventy not fifty three that have been bought in all
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: this year. I'm excited about. They need to get after it.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Let's get it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: You gotta start fast, get things going.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: If they decide to kick to Rashid Shaheed, go ahead
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: and take it to the house. But if you look
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: at the numbers, I think the Rams usually kicking to
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: the end zone and say start on the thirty five.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: But if you slip up, if you slip up, twenty
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: two is going to get you. And you got to
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: contain Stafford and Pooka in the corps. They can't go
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: crazy like they did Week sixteam. They're gonna make plays,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: we get that, but you can't have Stafford throwing for
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: four and a fifty plus and pook It going for
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: TowIt to twenty five. You gotta put some pressure on
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: these dudes. And like I said, Stafford has not done
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: well with pressure in the playoffs. So Leo Murphy Law,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Chimna deal, Jay Reed, come on, get out for him.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really interesting how that number flips. And if
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks and take advantage of that and then take
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: the ball away in the secondary, that's something you haven't
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: been able to do against Stafford. Zero turnovers in the
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: last two games against the Seahawks on nine and nineteen games.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Obviously easier said than done, but I think you make
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: a big play in the secondary.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: You have a really good chance of winning this game.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: And offensively protect the football all on fourteen and he's
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: ready for that moment. You know what I'm saying. I
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: think all the haters every wants to talk. I know
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: they don't hear that stuff downstairs, but just for me personally, Bump,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: if we could see fourteen ball out on that stage,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I'm envisioning him trying to hold that George Hollis Trophy
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: and just letting everybody know like this is what it's
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: always been. So I'm rooting for that. For Sam, all
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: eyes are gonna be on him.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: He needs to play well and I think he's going
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: to yep, and he plays well if you protect him.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: So make sure you do that and feed ken Walker. Man,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: he needs twenty to twenty five carries. Mix it up
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: in the screen game, keep him. Guess you got McVeigh
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: against McDonald one more time.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't won it in any other way, not at all.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is the best matchup you're going to again.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I'm really intrigued. Also, McVeigh McDonald, they're the geniuses of
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: their profession offense, defense leading men. Mcveigh's an amazing coach.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: The Rams have a great team. The Seahawks have an amazing coaching,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: a great team. It's gonna be a battle, and it's
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: a championship game at Loominfield this Sunday. The pregame show
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: gets kicked off at noon. Lots of coverage. It's gonna
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: be real fun. He's Michael Bumpas on NASA Chrobe. Hopefully
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: we'll be talking about the Super Bowl coming up, NFC
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Championship this weekend.
• 25:08
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