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Recapping Week 15: Seahawks at Rams · Hawk Talk

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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. After ten yard line second to day free
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Speaker 1: wide receivers now in motion has Bumpas left to right,
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Speaker 1: Julius Jones, a single setback Matt Pumpfecks looking at the
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Speaker 1: goal line, he throws it into the end zone. Touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Say Hawks, it's Michael Bumpas with a diving catching the
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Speaker 1: end zone. Our ten yard touchdown reception for Bumpas, and
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Speaker 1: a kid out of Washington State has found himself a
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Speaker 1: place on this team. Powered by Seahawks dot Com. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to Hawk Talk Recap edition. I am Michael Bumpas. The
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Speaker 1: Seahawks fall to the Rams twenty to ten in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: A tough game. Playoff hopes are probably gone. But to
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Speaker 1: help me break this all down, we're gonna go into
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Speaker 1: trenches with Ray Roberts. It's time to go inside the
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Speaker 1: trenches with former Seahawk Ray Roberts. Big Ray, tough game
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Speaker 1: down in LA or so off. How are you doing, man?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing all right, brother, you know, tough day, like
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Speaker 1: you said, but recovering this morning. Yeah. Man, it was
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Speaker 1: a weird game, right these guys play on the Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: The Rams have about twenty five guys on that COVID list.
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Speaker 1: The games pushed back, they get some key pieces back
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Speaker 1: because that game is pushed back. The Hawks lose a
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Speaker 1: couple of pieces, and then we go out first quarter
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Speaker 1: three to three. It's been a battle. You go into
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Speaker 1: the halftime all knotted up. Second half comes around and
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Speaker 1: things change. When you look at this offense, what did
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Speaker 1: you see and what do you think needed to happen
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Speaker 1: for them to be successful in this game? You know what,
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Speaker 1: if you if you really look back at the offfective performance,
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Speaker 1: they never really put like two or three or three
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Speaker 1: or four like really good plays together, and then they
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Speaker 1: kept having setbacks with untimely penalties like you know, um,
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Speaker 1: you know with Shard Penny, I think he only finished
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Speaker 1: with you know, maybe thirty something yards rushing, but he
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Speaker 1: had another twenty yards left on the field that were
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Speaker 1: called back because it's holding calls. And so you think
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Speaker 1: about in that situation, you know, it's first and ten,
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Speaker 1: you pick up eight or nine yards a second and two,
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Speaker 1: you're probably gonna run it again. But with the ability,
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Speaker 1: you end up with first and twenty, So you're not
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Speaker 1: going to run the ball in that situation. So so
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Speaker 1: it was just really untimely mishaps that kind of kept
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Speaker 1: the offense from kind of getting in stride, just you know,
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Speaker 1: the ball not been thrown quite far enough, or the
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Speaker 1: esprits you know, like you know, making a really tough,
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Speaker 1: tough catch even though you know, had it in his
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Speaker 1: hands to the ground between two guys that like every
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Speaker 1: now and then to see how the offense live on
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Speaker 1: stuff like that, on big plays like that, the magic
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Speaker 1: of Russell Wilson, the connectedness between him and and Tyler Lockett,
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Speaker 1: you know, who wasn't playing yesterday, So I think a
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Speaker 1: lot of that stuff was missing yesterday, and quite frankly,
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Speaker 1: it's just kind of been missing most of the season. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm with you, Ray. Not having Tyler Lockett I felt
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Speaker 1: was huge right discas was over four. When it comes
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Speaker 1: to targets, DCA had twelve targets on a few receptions.
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Speaker 1: Do you think yesterday we saw how valuable Tyler Lockett
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Speaker 1: really is to this offense? I think so, because you know,
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Speaker 1: Tyler just finds a way to get open and hen
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Speaker 1: Russ has this this type of connectedness and trust with
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Speaker 1: each other, uh that they can make plays, you know,
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Speaker 1: out of nothing. It doesn't mean that those other guys can't.
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Speaker 1: It just it just means that Tyler's just been more
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Speaker 1: proficient at at actually doing it, you know. And so
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Speaker 1: and then you you know, you have to think too
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Speaker 1: that with Tyler in there, there's a little bit more
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Speaker 1: respect for him than there would be for a d Estridge,
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Speaker 1: you know. So then you're gonna draw some coverage maybe
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Speaker 1: from DK in certain situations where you get DK cleaner
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Speaker 1: look at, you know, catching the ball and being able
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Speaker 1: to do some damage and vice versa. And I don't
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Speaker 1: you didn't have that dynamic yesterday. Like I think for
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Speaker 1: the Sea officer have performed well yesterday, they needed a
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Speaker 1: huge game from DK Metcalf and they needed at least
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Speaker 1: sixty seventy maybe eighty yards out of Richard Penny, and
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Speaker 1: I think the offense would have been in the position
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Speaker 1: to do some damage. But neither one of those things happened. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: on the outside, I don't think we got enough production.
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Speaker 1: But on that offensive line, it seemed like Russ has
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Speaker 1: some time back there there were a couple of players
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Speaker 1: where I felt Damian Lewis gotta beat But that's just
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Speaker 1: part of the game, especially when you're playing against Aaron
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Speaker 1: Downd on that line. What you see from the offensive line,
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Speaker 1: you know what I saw, you know, a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, I just said, you know, I think the
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Speaker 1: offense needs to the line needs to grind a little harder, strained,
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Speaker 1: a little harder, try to move a little quicker, to spend,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, take another step trying to finish.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes those little things are all the difference that it makes,
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Speaker 1: and it seems like that's what they were doing yesterday
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Speaker 1: as well. Even in the running game. It's unfortunate that
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Speaker 1: the holding calls kind of called some players back in
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Speaker 1: The offense wasn't in a reason to keep running because
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Speaker 1: Richard Pam was running hard, the offensive line was blocking
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Speaker 1: hard and trying to finish. And then same thing was
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Speaker 1: happening in the passing game. I can't remember the last
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Speaker 1: time wherever multiple opportunities where Russell was sitting back there
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Speaker 1: just patting the ball, trying to figure out who to
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Speaker 1: throw the ball to. An unfortunate thing about that situation
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Speaker 1: is that with that defensive line, to be able to
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Speaker 1: get Russell that much time on that many occasions, there
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Speaker 1: needed to be big place made out of that. And
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Speaker 1: I would imagine I think two or three times he
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Speaker 1: just threw the ball away. There was someone to throw
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Speaker 1: the ball too, and that was unfortunate because you just
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Speaker 1: wasted even not just didn't. You didn't take advantage of
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Speaker 1: such great pass attention against the defensive line that can
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Speaker 1: really get after it. And so and then you know,
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Speaker 1: you brought up Damian Lewis too, and Damion you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe it's injuries or set your slump or whatever it is,
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Speaker 1: but but he's wanted to do that. At the end
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Speaker 1: of this season, he can't be happy with himself. He can't.
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Speaker 1: He can't wait for someone to come and tell him
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Speaker 1: what he needs to improve on. He has to be
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Speaker 1: able to look at the film and know, like, you
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Speaker 1: know what, I need to be better at this thing.
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Speaker 1: I think this year he came in and and and
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Speaker 1: I can't get into his head and think, but in
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Speaker 1: my opinion, it seems like he just wanted to outmuscle
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Speaker 1: everybody in this league. There's a lot of strong dudes,
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Speaker 1: and if you can't move your feet and have good
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Speaker 1: hands and feet, you're not gonna block anybody. He has
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Speaker 1: those things, but those things don't seem to be showing
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Speaker 1: up for him this year, and I don't know why
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Speaker 1: he should have had a breakout season. But hopefully, you know,
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Speaker 1: the rest of this year and an end to the
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Speaker 1: off season, he can start to work on those things. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that that sophomore slump, I feel like he's in. But
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Speaker 1: I think we've spoken to Damien Lewis and we both
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Speaker 1: agree that he's gonna bounce back and he's gonna be
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Speaker 1: all right. But let's pitch over to the defensive line
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Speaker 1: because there's a guy named Carlos Dunlapp who hasn't been
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Speaker 1: used a lot this year, who had a game three
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Speaker 1: sacks first time since twenty fifteen. Michael Bennon was the
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Speaker 1: last time to have three sacks for the Seahawks. What
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Speaker 1: you see out of that defensive line and specifically Carlos
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Speaker 1: dunlap well, I thought they played it. I thought to
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Speaker 1: do because the line played a pretty good game. They
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Speaker 1: got some pressure on Matthew Stafford, they got knocked into
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Speaker 1: the ground a few times. They had what four stacked,
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Speaker 1: you know, Carlos had three of those, and so I
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Speaker 1: just thought that the food whatever, you know, we talked
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Speaker 1: before the game about matchups and our decent line matched
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Speaker 1: up well against their offensive lines, and uh, and we're
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Speaker 1: able to make some plays. And then super happy for
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Speaker 1: Carlos Man. Like I said in the post game, a
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Speaker 1: lot of people putting his position would just kind of
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Speaker 1: piled around and give you all the reasons why they
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Speaker 1: should be getting more planned time. And you know, a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, he just said, Man, I'm just
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Speaker 1: owning what they're asking me to do. I'm gonna be
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Speaker 1: the best at what I can do in the town
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Speaker 1: that they're given me. And you know, some people might say, well, men,
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Speaker 1: he got three sacks, he should get more playing time,
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Speaker 1: But it might be the fact that he's not getting
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Speaker 1: more planning time that's allowing him to get the sacks
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Speaker 1: because he has more energy as more explosion. He is
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Speaker 1: a dude that's played a lot of football, and so
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Speaker 1: the kind of grind at sixty seventy percent of the
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Speaker 1: play I don't know. I don't know if that's where
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Speaker 1: he is in his career, but the way they're doing
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Speaker 1: this load management with him, he's been very productive in it.
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Speaker 1: And so uh, if if you know he's got three
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Speaker 1: sacks on other dudes that are out there longer don't
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Speaker 1: have one. So I'm happy for him. I'm happy to
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Speaker 1: what he owned the position, and I'm happy with the
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Speaker 1: production and the way they're using it. So all NBA
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Speaker 1: load management working out for Carlos Dunlap. All right, now, Ray,
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Speaker 1: last when I got for these guys are five and nine.
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Speaker 1: The playoffs are probably out of reach. Um, what's the
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Speaker 1: menstal of this team? And how do you think they
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Speaker 1: go forward and finished wrong? Yeah, well, unfortunately, I've been
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Speaker 1: on a lot of teams that they were out of
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Speaker 1: the playoffs way earlier than this, and uh, and so
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Speaker 1: just trying to keep your yourself locked in and focused
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Speaker 1: on the work and then bringing the energy uh you know,
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Speaker 1: to the practice field, to the meeting rooms, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: to the to the to the games. It's gonna be vital.
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Speaker 1: And I think this team has the right people in
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Speaker 1: the leadership positions to make sure that that happens. Because
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Speaker 1: you know that Russell Wilson is not going to back down,
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Speaker 1: Bobby Wagener's not going to back down. It looks like
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Speaker 1: Jordan Brooks is kind of built in that same mold.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna play into the last whistle, and so You're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to bring a lot of those younger guys
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Speaker 1: along that maybe haven't been in this position before that
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Speaker 1: every day still matters, every step still matters, every meeting
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Speaker 1: still matters, every game still matters. And it's your job,
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Speaker 1: you know, you get paid to do it, and you
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Speaker 1: have to go out to them do ity the best
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Speaker 1: your ability. I can't say that one hundred percent of
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Speaker 1: the team is going to be all bought bought in
9:34
Speaker 1: and gun holds to it, but you gotta have enough
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Speaker 1: of your team still bought into it to finish the
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Speaker 1: season strong, even if it's just for your own personal Like,
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Speaker 1: there has to be some personal pride in there somewhere
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Speaker 1: that goes you know, and I'm lining up across from
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Speaker 1: this guy, I'm going to give him the best I got, Like,
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Speaker 1: I'm not out here to get embarrassed no matter what
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Speaker 1: the record is, you know, and so some of that
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Speaker 1: has to play a part of the two. I'm to
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Speaker 1: be a professional. Ray. Thank you for being a professional
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Speaker 1: all year, showed up for us, man. I appreciate you,
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Speaker 1: big dog. Well, thanks for having me, big dog, and uh,
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Speaker 1: good work with yourself, you know, on the on the radio,
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Speaker 1: all the stuff that they have you doing. You're knocking
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Speaker 1: it up, brother, Appreciate you man. I'll talk to you soon.
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Speaker 1: All right, Pete, all right, let's get deeper into this
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Speaker 1: thing and figure out what happened and bringing NASA Chobe
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Speaker 1: see what happened. At first, what had happened was unhard
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Speaker 1: dog man bump. Every game in an NFC West is
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Speaker 1: a battle, and Tuesday night was no different. The Seahawks
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Speaker 1: faced a ton of adversity this week and it started
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Speaker 1: with the game postponement. The Seahawks were schedule to play
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Speaker 1: the Rams, as we know, on Sunday. The Rams had
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Speaker 1: about twenty five guys on the COVID list that league
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Speaker 1: pushed the game back to Tuesday night, and then the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks unfortunately, had got the short end of the stick.
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Speaker 1: While the Rams were getting players back like Odell Beckham,
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Speaker 1: Junior Von Miller, Jalen Ramsey, the Seahawks were losing players
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Speaker 1: there without Tyler Lockett, dj Reid, Brandon Shell, Kerry Hyder,
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Speaker 1: Travis Homer, and Brian Monain. But despite all that, they
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Speaker 1: gave the Rams all they could handle, losing twenty to ten.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately for the Seahawks. Though this game followed a very
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Speaker 1: familiar pattern we've seen all season long. The Seahawks ran
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Speaker 1: just fifty three plays and lost the time of possession
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Speaker 1: thirty five minutes and six seconds to twenty four minutes
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Speaker 1: and fifty four seconds. The Seahawks were held under twenty
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Speaker 1: points for the seventh time this season. Third downs been
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Speaker 1: an Achilles heal all the year for the Seahawks. They're
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Speaker 1: only able to convert three of twelve. The offense only
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Speaker 1: had really one good drive all night, which when eleven
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Speaker 1: plays seventy five yards ended with a DJ Dallas touchdown.
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Speaker 1: That was the longest drive the entire season. Entering last night,
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Speaker 1: every other team in the NFL had at least four
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Speaker 1: touchdown drives of eleven plus plays, So that kind of
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Speaker 1: shows you where the Seahawks are at offensively in terms
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Speaker 1: of sustaining drives. But despite all that great affort by
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks defense kept them in the game. They held
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Speaker 1: the Rams to just three points in the first half,
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Speaker 1: able to sack Matthew Stafford four times. Quandre Digs doing
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Speaker 1: his thing, got his fifth interception of the season, and
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks held the fourth best scoring offensive just twenty points.
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Speaker 1: The only player to really go off for the Rams
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Speaker 1: was Cooper cup and we it's Cooper cup Man stabbed me.
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Speaker 1: You've heard this before. Dude is an absolute ball or
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Speaker 1: best receiver in the game right now. Nine receptions, one
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty six yards and two touchdowns. But bump,
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Speaker 1: it came down to one sequence. You know, all games
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Speaker 1: come down a couple plays, So fast forward to the
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. The Seahawks defense forces a huge punt from
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Speaker 1: the Rams. Seahawks get the ball back down seven with
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Speaker 1: five twenty five left in the game, and the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: start driving and then an incredibly painful sequence ensues. Seahawks
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Speaker 1: are facing a third and one at the Rams forty
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Speaker 1: five yard line. Then Rashad Penny might have just took
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Speaker 1: a breath. I don't know if flinch. It was one
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Speaker 1: of the tikie tack false start penalties I've ever seen.
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Speaker 1: He gets hit with a false star back to Seahawks
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Speaker 1: up five yards. Then they do try to go outside
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Speaker 1: with Rashad Penny take a one yard loss that set
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Speaker 1: to a fourth and six. In my goodness, the refs
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Speaker 1: did not cost the Seahawks the game, but that was
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Speaker 1: one of the most egregious calls I think I've ever
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Speaker 1: seen into the Rams in the Saints and the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: DJ Dallas gets absolutely tackled before the ball gets there.
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson floats it up, no flax from the official,
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Speaker 1: then gets bad to worse. CJ Dallas kicks the ball
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Speaker 1: at of frustration. Rams takeover kick a field goal and
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Speaker 1: that was it for Seattle. So very frustrating. The Seahawks
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Speaker 1: obviously needed to get win to keep their playoff hopes alive.
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Speaker 1: It's just really disappointing because every single game this year
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks have been within a touchdown in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday was no different. Um just really tough loss for
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks, but it was good to see a lot
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Speaker 1: of those guys out there battling, playing hard for those guys.
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Speaker 1: But let's get into the playmakers. See who balled out playmakers?
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna get into playmakers. But I want to
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Speaker 1: ask you something before we do. Okay, does the NFL
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Speaker 1: sind Pete Carroll an apology? Do they make this right
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Speaker 1: as far as that no call, no passing Ferarence called
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Speaker 1: on DJ Dallas, Well, you know, I don't think that.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it will make it right. But you know,
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Speaker 1: every coach every week sends tape from the game and
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Speaker 1: plays that they want to dispute to the league. League offense,
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Speaker 1: looks at office, looks at it, reviews it, then sends
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Speaker 1: it back and sometimes you say, hey, man, we miss
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Speaker 1: that one, and I don't know if that's the worst bump.
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Speaker 1: I honestly don't even want confirmation because if I saw
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Speaker 1: my two eyes, I don't want someone telling me after
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Speaker 1: the fact, who I know that call might have really
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Speaker 1: changed the game for you. We got it wrong, man,
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Speaker 1: My bad, my bad, you know what I'm saying. So
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Speaker 1: I think that's gonna happen. Obviously, Pete Carroll is gonna
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Speaker 1: take the high road and do everything he's gonna do
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Speaker 1: as a head coach and not focus on that. But
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Speaker 1: I'm sure behind the scenes there is some film being
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Speaker 1: discussed and being like, what is going on? Y'all got
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Speaker 1: to be better? Straight up, if I'm a head coach,
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Speaker 1: I need a phone call in thirty seconds for me
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Speaker 1: to just quay. That's all I need. That's all I need. Okay,
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Speaker 1: back to the play, Maga, speaking of the guy who
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Speaker 1: didn't get the pass interference call, We're gonna start with
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Speaker 1: DJ Dallas at eight carries for forty one yards, one
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Speaker 1: touchdown average five point one yards per carry. That drive
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Speaker 1: coming out of the out of halftime, that eleven play,
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Speaker 1: seventy five yard of drive. They ran the full bottle
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Speaker 1: of those eleven players. I believe they ran it six
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Speaker 1: times and DJ Dallas was a big part of that.
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Speaker 1: It was nice to see him step in when Penny
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Speaker 1: was banged up a little bit. Not really sure what happened,
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Speaker 1: but he went to the sideline four bib. DJ stepped
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Speaker 1: in and did his thing and could have made one
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Speaker 1: of the biggest plays in the game with that pass
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Speaker 1: and affair. Ands just didn't work out for him, but
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Speaker 1: it's nice to see DJ out there. Needs to control
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Speaker 1: his temper a little bit. I feel you I would
15:29
Speaker 1: have felt like kicking that football after the no call,
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Speaker 1: But other than that, I think DJ stepped in and
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Speaker 1: had a good day. I'd love to see it from DJ,
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Speaker 1: definitely showing me his versatility and why he's an important
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Speaker 1: member of this football team. Another playmaker, Gerald Everett four
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Speaker 1: reception sixty yards on four targets, including along of thirty
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Speaker 1: four yards. Nice to see him involved. He's obviously super
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Speaker 1: versatile has been a really key contributor to Seahawks offense
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Speaker 1: despite their struggles. You know, I know he wanted to
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Speaker 1: get a dub against his former team, was not able
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Speaker 1: to play in the first matchup, and you know, did
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Speaker 1: everything possible he could, and the second matchup unfortunately just
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Speaker 1: wasn't enough, but he did lead all receivers for the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks with sixty yards. Next we have Jordan Brooks. Man.
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Speaker 1: This guy is really stepping up, being consistent and had
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Speaker 1: eleven tackles, two tackles for loss, one pass defended on
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Speaker 1: fourth down. I saw this guy was it a screen.
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Speaker 1: I think we saw him sniff out, dipped and ripped
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Speaker 1: under the tackle, got skinny, got into the backfield. Every week,
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Speaker 1: I kind of see him getting more comfortable and make
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Speaker 1: it a play confidently that he wasn't making a few
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Speaker 1: weeks back. I love where this guy's going. His maturation
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Speaker 1: is unbelievable. I think that if you're getting we're getting
16:34
Speaker 1: to the point where when we watched Jordan Brooks's film,
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Speaker 1: when we're giving critiques, it's nitpicky, right, It's not the
16:40
Speaker 1: same thing as a rookie. You're picking little mistakes like
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Speaker 1: on the Cooper Cup touchdown. I believe he Carols talked
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Speaker 1: about it with Matt House back this morning that you know,
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Speaker 1: three receivers trips to the left and back motions to
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Speaker 1: the left. Now there's four threats on that side of
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Speaker 1: week side. Linebackers got a bump over make it a
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Speaker 1: tougher throw for Matthew Stafford Cooper Cup. But I'm we're
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Speaker 1: just nip picking at this point because Joran Brooks playing
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Speaker 1: great football. Another guy in the defense is playing well.
17:04
Speaker 1: Quandre Diggs seven tackles, one interception, one pass defended, has
17:08
Speaker 1: now tied a career high with five interceptions, which he
17:11
Speaker 1: set last year thirteen interceptions in thirty six games with
17:14
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, and his ten interceptions over the last two
17:17
Speaker 1: seasons tied him with Justin Simmons for the most of
17:20
Speaker 1: any safety. He's one of five players with ten plus
17:23
Speaker 1: interceptions in that span. So Quandre Digg man, he's already
17:27
Speaker 1: gonna go to the Pro Bowl. He should be an
17:28
Speaker 1: All Pro because he's been consistent all season long. Loves
17:32
Speaker 1: picking off his buddy Matthew Stafford. So I love to
17:34
Speaker 1: see Quandre Diggs balling out. Get that man in All
17:36
Speaker 1: Pro vote. Please get Digs a vote, and he steps
17:39
Speaker 1: up to the podium and keeps the rails what he
17:41
Speaker 1: has to do. After the game one hundred, Carlos Dunlave
17:44
Speaker 1: had himself a day. Four tackles, three sex, three QB hits,
17:47
Speaker 1: three tackles for Lass. He's the first Seahawk with three
17:50
Speaker 1: sex at a game since twenty fifteen, and that was
17:52
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett. Big Ray made a great point. He goes, look,
17:56
Speaker 1: maybe it's better that they're doing this load management thing
17:59
Speaker 1: with Carlos the lamp. He is in his mid thirties,
18:02
Speaker 1: been in the league for a while. Maybe him not
18:05
Speaker 1: getting all these snaps as allowed him to play at
18:07
Speaker 1: a high level late. But I would still like to
18:10
Speaker 1: see him a bit more. Carlos dunlab also happed on
18:13
Speaker 1: a nice sweater after the game. Right things nice and interesting? Yeah, No,
18:17
Speaker 1: I would love to see more of Carlos dunlap I mean,
18:19
Speaker 1: anytime you get three sacks, I don't care if it's
18:20
Speaker 1: against a backup tackle. One of them was against Witworth,
18:23
Speaker 1: so it doesn't matter. I love to see our guy
18:25
Speaker 1: Carlos balling out. Another playmaker, Rashime Green five tackles, one sack,
18:29
Speaker 1: one TfL, one QB hit, two pass defended, and I
18:33
Speaker 1: just love Rahim. He's playing with the confidence and consistency.
18:36
Speaker 1: You can even hear in his postgame interviews. He just
18:39
Speaker 1: feels more comfortable out there. You know. This fourth year
18:41
Speaker 1: in the league, and he might not have the crazy
18:43
Speaker 1: sack numbers ten fifteen numbers like that, but he's always
18:46
Speaker 1: effective in every single game. He's doing exactly what the
18:48
Speaker 1: team is asking him to do. So I love to
18:50
Speaker 1: see the young kid balling out. Sean Green Callie stand up.
18:55
Speaker 1: Was it Sarah high school? Man? I was my last
18:57
Speaker 1: high school game. They knocked us out the playoffs, so
19:00
Speaker 1: nice to see Rashim do a staying okay. Receiver round up.
19:03
Speaker 1: Jerald Abbott had four catches on four targets for sixty yards.
19:06
Speaker 1: Deca had twelve targets but only six catches for fifty
19:09
Speaker 1: two yards. Along of twelve, Freddy Swain had one big
19:12
Speaker 1: catch for twenty five yards. It was on the drive
19:15
Speaker 1: that Hawks came out come about at halftime in and
19:18
Speaker 1: got it done with a score. DJ Dallas had three
19:20
Speaker 1: for eleven, were Shot Penny two for five, will dis
19:23
Speaker 1: League one for three. Overall, this group has seventeen catches
19:26
Speaker 1: four one hundred and fifty six yards. Let's go into
19:30
Speaker 1: the coach's corner and breakdown some film. Absolutely bomb. We
19:33
Speaker 1: mentioned Quandre Diggs how good he has been this season. Well,
19:36
Speaker 1: Quandre Diggs picked off his former teammate Matthew Stafford for
19:39
Speaker 1: the second time this season on first and ten from
19:41
Speaker 1: the Seattle thirty two in the second quarter. First and
19:45
Speaker 1: ten from the Seahawks thirty throw down Fields intercepted. It
19:47
Speaker 1: states he's out across the ten fifteen twenty turns up
19:50
Speaker 1: field thirty, gets hit and dropped at about the thirty
19:52
Speaker 1: five by Edwards, one of the offensive linemen. Stafford threw
19:56
Speaker 1: that ball toward the middle of the field and Diggs
19:58
Speaker 1: just came into the line sight had snatched it out
20:01
Speaker 1: of the air. Not a lot here, nas, and I
20:04
Speaker 1: think it was a horrible throw by Matthew Stafford. Obviously,
20:08
Speaker 1: the Hawks are in cover three because that is what
20:10
Speaker 1: they love to do. You got. I believe that's Bless
20:13
Speaker 1: Austin running with the go route and Quandre Diggs is
20:16
Speaker 1: reading Matthew Stafford's eyes and staying on top. On the
20:19
Speaker 1: other side, there's not much there. They're running to get
20:20
Speaker 1: hitch and I believe another scene it looks like or
20:23
Speaker 1: maybe a deep out as hard to see, but this
20:25
Speaker 1: is just Diggs staying on top, keeping everything in front,
20:29
Speaker 1: reading the quarterback's eyes, and breaking on the full ball.
20:31
Speaker 1: Horrible throw by Matthew Stafford. But if Diggs isn't where
20:35
Speaker 1: he's supposed to be and reading his keys, he doesn't
20:38
Speaker 1: make this play. Yeah, no question about it. I think
20:39
Speaker 1: you're spot on. This is Matthew Stafford nine times I
20:42
Speaker 1: attend is not making poor throw. This poor it's short
20:45
Speaker 1: miscommunication with the receiver not looking back. I don't even
20:49
Speaker 1: I think Bless Austin he hasn't turned his head the
20:51
Speaker 1: corner on that play. But even if he does, I
20:53
Speaker 1: think that ball hits him in the back. But think
20:55
Speaker 1: about Quandre Diggs. A nice underrated part about this play
20:57
Speaker 1: is he just he's playing that center field, but he's lurking, right.
21:01
Speaker 1: They talked about it on the broadcast. He's playing center field,
21:03
Speaker 1: but he almost goats Matthew Stafford into that because he
21:06
Speaker 1: knows he can break downhill. He's reading the formation. He
21:08
Speaker 1: sees who's on that side. I believe that's Cooper Cup
21:11
Speaker 1: and he knows Hey I'm gonna play deep, but I'm
21:14
Speaker 1: favoring that side already. I realize I have no threats
21:17
Speaker 1: on my left. Defends his left, so we can got
21:20
Speaker 1: to shade over. But he can wait because outbreaking route
21:22
Speaker 1: is covered three. So he knows he has corner on
21:25
Speaker 1: that deep outbreaking route, whether it's a fade or anything
21:27
Speaker 1: like that. So he kind of goes him into a
21:29
Speaker 1: stay play center field and waste the last second and
21:31
Speaker 1: the second that ball is in the air, he comes
21:33
Speaker 1: downhill incredibly fast. And that's what Quandry Diggs does. Man,
21:36
Speaker 1: whether it's a bad throw or not, if you're not
21:38
Speaker 1: in position, you don't make plays. And Quandrey Digg has
21:40
Speaker 1: been one percent consistent all year long. That's we have
21:43
Speaker 1: five interceptions this year or ten and the last two seasons.
21:45
Speaker 1: One of the four people in the league to do that.
21:47
Speaker 1: So love to see Quandrey Diggs being consistent and doing
21:50
Speaker 1: everything he can to make sure he's an All Pro
21:52
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. Biggs one of my favorite players
21:56
Speaker 1: on this team. Two weeks in a row, wee get
21:59
Speaker 1: into Victor formation, but that's not going to happen today, Nas,
22:04
Speaker 1: what is it? The clock just ran out goodness a
22:11
Speaker 1: knee taking fire Huntley. They're just gonna let the clock
22:13
Speaker 1: wind down, but you're not even gonna bother taking that
22:16
Speaker 1: last time out. Good effort by the Seahawks defense just
22:22
Speaker 1: wasn't enough against a great Ramps team who had a
22:25
Speaker 1: couple of days to get some guys back. The Hawks
22:27
Speaker 1: will lose a couple of guys. All about matchups in
22:29
Speaker 1: this league, and the Ramps to advantage of a good
22:32
Speaker 1: matchup for them. For the Seahawks, it's the same issues
22:34
Speaker 1: that heard them all season. You get fifty three plays,
22:37
Speaker 1: you'll lose the time of possession, you're not great on
22:39
Speaker 1: third downs. You only you score less than twenty points
22:42
Speaker 1: for the seven time this season. It's just the same
22:45
Speaker 1: stuff happening in these losses. When they win ball games,
22:48
Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff is taken care of. When
22:50
Speaker 1: you lose ball games, these stats re emerge and show
22:53
Speaker 1: their ugly face again. Yeah, absolutely hate to see it,
22:56
Speaker 1: because you're right. It has played the Seahawks all season long.
22:58
Speaker 1: And this is crazy, man. This is the first losing
23:00
Speaker 1: season for Russell Wilson since his sophomore season at NC State.
23:04
Speaker 1: Got to go back to two thousand and nine, bump.
23:06
Speaker 1: I was finishing up my senior year of high school.
23:09
Speaker 1: You were still thinking about playing in the league at
23:11
Speaker 1: that point, So it's been a minute. The Seahawks also
23:14
Speaker 1: have their first losing seasons in twenty eleven, so it's
23:17
Speaker 1: it's been a long time coming. And you know, the
23:20
Speaker 1: Seahawks unfortunately giving everything. We just talked about their O
23:23
Speaker 1: and eight this season when tied or trailing at any
23:25
Speaker 1: point in the fourth quarter, very opposite of what we're
23:27
Speaker 1: used to under Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson. Only the
23:30
Speaker 1: Texans and Panthers have a worse record in those situations.
23:33
Speaker 1: So it's tough, man. The Seahawks just couldn't get out
23:35
Speaker 1: of their own way and unfortunately lose a tough battle
23:37
Speaker 1: to the Rams on defense once again, man, they played
23:41
Speaker 1: all right. They held the Rams of twenty points they've
23:42
Speaker 1: been averaging, giving up twenty point two, so that's right
23:45
Speaker 1: where they're supposed to be. They intercepted Matthew Stafford, he
23:48
Speaker 1: was sacked four times, and it just wasn't enough. Now,
23:51
Speaker 1: the Hawks aren't mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, but we've
23:57
Speaker 1: been around the game long enough it's going to take
23:59
Speaker 1: a lot to happen for these guys to sneak him
24:02
Speaker 1: this thing. But three games left, they still got to play. Yeah,
24:07
Speaker 1: no question about it. These guys got a lot of
24:08
Speaker 1: pride in that locker room. As you can see every
24:10
Speaker 1: single week they fight till the very end, very last whistle.
24:13
Speaker 1: They play incredibly hard. Three games to finish out in
24:15
Speaker 1: a high note and just kind of figure out what
24:17
Speaker 1: the Seahawks have at the end of this season. A
24:19
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities for young guys to prove himself and
24:21
Speaker 1: see what the Seahawks have going in the next season.
24:23
Speaker 1: But season's out over three weeks. Got to find a
24:25
Speaker 1: way to go one and out. I go one to know.
24:28
Speaker 1: You got the Chicago Bears coming into town the day
24:30
Speaker 1: after Christmas. Let's see if we can bring some magic
24:33
Speaker 1: to this football team to end the season. Man, it's
24:35
Speaker 1: been tough. The Seahawks fall to the Rams twenty to
24:37
Speaker 1: ten in La. I am Michael Bumpets, he is Nats Choby.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out with us. We'll talk to you soon.