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A Big Offseason Ahead · 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 Bumpis. Playfake, go to roll right, dumps it off
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  Speaker 1: into the right flasf to Michael Bumpers, who bounce us
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  Speaker 1: off a one tackler catch him side the forty down
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  Speaker 1: of the thirty five yard line. Powered by Seahawks dot Com,
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  Speaker 1: Matt pumpfake's looking at the go line, he throws it
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  Speaker 1: into the end zone. Touchdown, Say Hawks, it's Michael Bumpas
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  Speaker 1: with a diving catching the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: A ten yard touchdown reception for Bumpers, and the kid
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  Speaker 2: out of Washington State has found himself a place.
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  Speaker 1: On this team. Now here's your host, Nasa Chobee.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it has been interesting for an interesting time here
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  Speaker 3: at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center over the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks. Last time me and Bump had a chance
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  Speaker 3: to speak with all y'all, the Seahawks were hoping to
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  Speaker 3: get into the playoffs, hoping to get some help from
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  Speaker 3: the Chicago Bears. Unfortunately, that did not happen. The Bears
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  Speaker 3: did not be the Packers. The Seahawks beat the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't enough. The Seahawks did miss the playoffs at
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  Speaker 3: nine and eight, and unfortunately, since then, the Yaks announced
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  Speaker 3: head coach Pete Carroll will be moving on from head
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  Speaker 3: coach to an advisory role with the club. And uh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just the gravity of that moment and Pete not being
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  Speaker 3: here anymore. If someone's worked here for eight years and
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  Speaker 3: been to see offa my whole life and just been
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  Speaker 3: being around Pete, it was pretty shocking.
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  Speaker 4: Bump it was.
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  Speaker 3: I was pretty floored thinking about it. It hit me
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  Speaker 3: pretty hard. And you were on the air when this happened.
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  Speaker 3: So take me through you hearing the news for the
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  Speaker 3: first time.
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  Speaker 5: We got to break it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm actually I was in the middle of a segment
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  Speaker 6: and our producer gets into staceyy Ross's ear and I
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  Speaker 6: see her face and I go, oh, there's some breaking news.
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  Speaker 5: Is that time of the year. Let's see what goes them?
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  Speaker 5: And she goes. Pete Carroll is out.
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  Speaker 6: As the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, and one
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  Speaker 6: of our other producers, my left coach, took a screenshot
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  Speaker 6: of my face during that time. You thought I saw
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  Speaker 6: a go so i'body this has to be a joke.
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  Speaker 6: This is not real. My whole football existence. Pete Carroll
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  Speaker 6: has either been a assistant coach or a head coach somewhere,
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  Speaker 6: whether it be a college or the NFL. So on now,
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  Speaker 6: I was shocking, man. I did not expect it, and
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  Speaker 6: there was a lot I had to digest and react
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  Speaker 6: to immediately. And that was the toughest part because he
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  Speaker 6: deserves time for that news to marinate and for people
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  Speaker 6: to articulate exactly what they're feeling in that moment. So yeah,
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  Speaker 6: it was rough. Man wasn't expecting it. But man, appreciate
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  Speaker 6: Pete for everything is done.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy he was you and not me, because I
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  Speaker 3: don't think I would have been able to say anything
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  Speaker 3: on the mic because I would have just been that floored.
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  Speaker 3: And it was just again, when you're someone who's been
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  Speaker 3: around as long.
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  Speaker 4: As Pete has.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just give you some stats for all the people
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  Speaker 3: to know how successful Pete was during his time in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: During his fourteen year run as head coach, he was
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  Speaker 3: one forty seven ninety eight and one five division titles,
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  Speaker 3: two Super Bowl appearances super Bowl forty eight champion is
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  Speaker 3: all you know, went to the playoffs ten out of
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  Speaker 3: fourteen seasons and had winning seasons in eleven of those fourteens,
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  Speaker 3: and then he want to go overall one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: eighty one and one thirty one, typer thirteenth in NFL,
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  Speaker 3: his three with one hundred and eighty one combined wins,
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  Speaker 3: thirty nine head coach in NFL history with one hundred
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  Speaker 3: regular season wins, twenty second head coach to reach one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty regular season wins, and fifteenth head coach
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  Speaker 3: to reach one seventy five. So that's an elite company, obviously.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things I think about, too, Bump,
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  Speaker 3: is during that time, those fourteen years, every other team
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  Speaker 3: in the NFC West has been good, really bad, good
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  Speaker 3: and really bad again.
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  Speaker 4: I'm talking winning six or less games.
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  Speaker 3: Every team in the division has had that up and down,
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  Speaker 3: up and down, up and down in that same time.
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  Speaker 3: And while the worst season Pete Carroll had was seven
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  Speaker 3: and nine and then I guess technically went he went
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  Speaker 3: to seventeen games, seven and ten and twenty one, but
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  Speaker 3: that was a year Russell Wilson broke his thumb. So
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  Speaker 3: it's like, when you think about the success this man had,
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  Speaker 3: it it leads you to just there's a lot of emotions,
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  Speaker 3: especially for Seahawk fans because he puts Seattle on the map.
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  Speaker 3: And while we're talking about those emotions during his final
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  Speaker 3: press conference, because he was able to address the media
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  Speaker 3: after the decision for him to move into an advisory role,
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  Speaker 3: which is really goes to show you the respect that
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  Speaker 3: everyone has for Coach Carroll, that he got to have
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  Speaker 3: the final words. And let me tell you, Bump, I
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  Speaker 3: was in the room. Man, there was not a dry
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  Speaker 3: eye in the house. You started talking about his wife,
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  Speaker 3: his kids, Glenna, what everyone meant to him.
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  Speaker 4: But one of the things that I really.
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  Speaker 3: Stuck away with what he talked about was when he
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  Speaker 3: talked about culture that he created here in this building.
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  Speaker 4: But what I am.
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  Speaker 2: Most proud of is that we took a culture that
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  Speaker 2: we developed there in those college days and came here
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  Speaker 2: to see if you cared for people deeply and you
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  Speaker 2: loved them for who they were and tried to find
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  Speaker 2: the extraordinary uniqueness that made them them and celebrate that
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  Speaker 2: and not try to make them something that they're not,
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  Speaker 2: and not to try to expect them to be something
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  Speaker 2: other than that, but try to see if we can
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  Speaker 2: capture that extraordinary uniqueness that they had and celebrate that
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  Speaker 2: with them, let's see what happens. Well, see, we killed
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  Speaker 2: it and we came up here and overall we've been
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  Speaker 2: successful for a long time. I didn't think any way
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  Speaker 2: that this would happen like this.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't have that vision.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm grateful for it because what we have here,
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  Speaker 2: we have an extraordinary culture, and I'm really proud of that.
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  Speaker 3: Culture gets thrown around like crazy everywhere in the business world,
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  Speaker 3: sports teams, this, and that. I've had the opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: work in a bunch of different places. Culture is real,
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  Speaker 3: and it's real when you're the leader of your program.
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  Speaker 3: Believes it in every fiver of his being, and it's
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  Speaker 3: something on you know, it's hard to even equate what
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  Speaker 3: it is. He has his rule, just always think about,
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  Speaker 3: always compete, tell the truth, Monday, be in, all in,
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  Speaker 3: be early, all those things that are strictly Pete. And
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  Speaker 3: it's just like, the culture is real, and I really
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  Speaker 3: I have faith that they're going to keep the culture
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  Speaker 3: in the building once he moves on.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's just hard when you think of Pete.
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  Speaker 4: What sticks out.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you have the unique opportunity to be one
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  Speaker 3: of some smallest of people that were actually recruited by
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  Speaker 3: Coach Carroll when you were in high school.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, back in two thousand and three, I've verbally committed
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  Speaker 6: to University Southern California because of Pete Carroll. Pete all
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  Speaker 6: the things he says at seventy two years old, he
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  Speaker 6: was preaching twenty years ago, recruiting a kid out of
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  Speaker 6: Culver City High School. Man, and he talks about culture
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  Speaker 6: and culture is something that like you have your your
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  Speaker 6: stables or your culture. This is how we practice, this
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  Speaker 6: is how we show up, This is how we address
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  Speaker 6: as the media, this is.
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  Speaker 5: How we respect our co workers.
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  Speaker 6: But Pete's culture you could feel as soon as you
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  Speaker 6: stepped into vMac, whether you're going through the front entrance
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  Speaker 6: like as media people do, or you go through the
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  Speaker 6: back door like the coaches and the players and everyone
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  Speaker 6: else involved.
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  Speaker 5: You feel it as soon as you walk in BMAC.
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  Speaker 6: Man, from the reception of saying hello to the security
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  Speaker 6: guards recognize you and saying hello up and down man.
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  Speaker 5: So when I think.
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  Speaker 6: About Pete, I think about a person who recognizes people
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  Speaker 6: for who they are, one of the heart artist workers
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  Speaker 6: I've been around, and a person that approaches every day
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  Speaker 6: the same way win lose a draw. We sit in
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  Speaker 6: this media room that's next to the team meeting room,
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  Speaker 6: and no matter what they could have lost, just I
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  Speaker 6: could have got blown out by the Baltimore Ravens show.
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  Speaker 5: Up on a Thursday.
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  Speaker 6: Of the days that I showed up, there's still the
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  Speaker 6: same energy, the same focus, and the same grime.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, man, he's been huge.
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  Speaker 6: I'm telling you, Like, I just start playing football till
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  Speaker 6: high school, so all I knew was Pete Carroll and USC.
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  Speaker 5: And Reggie bush Line at all those guys.
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  Speaker 6: So to have that experience with him in California, then
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  Speaker 6: come up here to the Northwest work for the Seahawks
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  Speaker 6: and and just see him these these last twenty three years,
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  Speaker 6: it's been great, man. And he's been the same guy.
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  Speaker 6: I mean he's been He's been true to himself and
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  Speaker 6: what he believes in.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think the number one question I get asked,
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  Speaker 3: or I've been asked over the years since I've worked here, is.
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  Speaker 4: Is Pete really like that? There's Pete really that energetic?
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  Speaker 4: Is that all? Yes? Yes, he's like that.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thirty two years old. I have bad days. I'm
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  Speaker 3: tired some days, some days I'm not feeling it. Some
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  Speaker 3: days it might show. I try not to show the
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  Speaker 3: body language whatnot. You would never know if Pete had
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  Speaker 3: a bad day, because I don't think he's ever had one.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the way he carries himself, the energy, running
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  Speaker 3: sprints at practice, all the stuff that people see. And
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  Speaker 3: I got to experience this stuff people didn't get to
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  Speaker 3: see because he was always that person all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I was a nobody when I took over this job,
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  Speaker 3: essentially in terms of my professional experience, and over the
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  Speaker 3: last eight years, just having a chance to see how
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  Speaker 3: he moved, how he operated, how he treated people, how
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  Speaker 3: he treated me, specifically setting up interviews, doing all the
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  Speaker 3: things that he didn't have to do, taking time asking
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  Speaker 3: about my day, knowing my name, all these things, and
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  Speaker 3: you just don't ever take it for granted. So it's
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  Speaker 3: a really sad bittersweet for me because he did so
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  Speaker 3: much for me personally, everyone in this building.
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  Speaker 4: All the players you talk.
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  Speaker 3: You think of a guy like Gino smith Man to
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  Speaker 3: have the belief from a guy like Pete Carroll that
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  Speaker 3: restarted his career, you know what I mean. Like, there's
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  Speaker 3: so there's probably a gazillion people. I go down the list.
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  Speaker 3: Richard Sherman kJ Wright, all the Doug you know, Doug
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  Speaker 3: Bald and all the people that he helped find. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: John Schneider has been a part of that the entire way,
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  Speaker 3: so we'll get.
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  Speaker 4: To him, but I just it was a bittersweet day.
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  Speaker 3: I just we just wanted to make sure that we
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  Speaker 3: gave Pete his flowers because he meant a lot to
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  Speaker 3: this region. When you think of Seahawks football, Pete Carroll
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  Speaker 3: is one of the people you think of.
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  Speaker 4: So just wanted to give our flowers.
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  Speaker 3: A coach, we appreciate everything you've done for this team's organization,
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  Speaker 3: the city, this region. You'll be remembered forever pretty soon
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  Speaker 3: here whatever happens, we know you'll be putting up in
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  Speaker 3: the Ring of Honor and all that. And then I'll
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  Speaker 3: menually obviously Cooperstown or Hall of Fame, not Cooperstown, but Canton,
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  Speaker 3: Ohio for that.
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  Speaker 4: Got my sports costs a.
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  Speaker 3: Little bit, and then let's just jump over a little
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  Speaker 3: bit because more news come out. John Schneider addressed the
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  Speaker 3: media essentially, you know, a couple of days ago for
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  Speaker 3: the first time kind of solo as he kind of
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  Speaker 3: moves into a different role. He's still obviously the general manager,
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  Speaker 3: but now the football staff and everything's kind of fallen
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  Speaker 3: under his leadership. But he spoke this week about how
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  Speaker 3: blessed it was to have the relationship he had with
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  Speaker 3: Pete Carroll.
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  Speaker 7: Again, just very very blessed to have worked with Pete
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  Speaker 7: and all the positive lessons and the leadership, the leadership
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  Speaker 7: lessons and thoughts and philosophies. And I can't even begin
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  Speaker 7: to explain to you, you know, pretty emotional press conference
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  Speaker 7: the other day, and when I say your emotions are
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  Speaker 7: all over the place, you know, it's it's moving on
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  Speaker 7: from a very very historic partnership and amazing, amazing level
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  Speaker 7: of success and achievement that Pete and myself are extremely
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  Speaker 7: proud of. I look forward to being able to call
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  Speaker 7: it Pete and text him. He's really he's texting me
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  Speaker 7: that crazy all the time, like Hey, Johnny, what's what
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  Speaker 7: you know is going on with this and that? And
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  Speaker 7: so it's a yeah, it's been a great it's been
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  Speaker 7: a great experience.
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  Speaker 3: You can hear him at the end kind of getting
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  Speaker 3: emotional because they had a relationship that is so unique.
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  Speaker 3: But fourteen fifteen years really calendar years of them being together,
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  Speaker 3: making every single decision.
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  Speaker 4: Together, all the ups, all the downs.
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  Speaker 3: He mentioned it at some point in pres conference talking
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  Speaker 3: about a podcast that they could have, and boy, we
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  Speaker 3: would all subscribe. I would pay money to hear some
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  Speaker 3: of those stories. So it's just, I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: unheard of, bump. I don't know, you know, I'm obviously
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  Speaker 3: hoping that there's the next version of Pete Carroll in
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  Speaker 3: terms of his relationship with John Schneider, but just thinking
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  Speaker 3: back through the years, man, it's a it's got to
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  Speaker 3: be a historic, you know, relationship all time because you
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  Speaker 3: don't see that longevity in the league anymore.
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  Speaker 6: Now, fourteen years in the league in one place with
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  Speaker 6: that that partnership, that has been awesome, man. And I'm
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  Speaker 6: like you said, it's bittersweet because Pete's gone to you.
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  Speaker 6: This day was gonna come eventually him not being the
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  Speaker 6: head coach anymore.
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  Speaker 5: But now I'm excited for John. John, you know, this
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  Speaker 5: is this is you.
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  Speaker 6: You can take all those lessons, all those moments you
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  Speaker 6: had with Pete and you get to make this yours.
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  Speaker 5: We all know.
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  Speaker 6: Jody's going to be involved as well, but I'm sure
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  Speaker 6: there their friendship will is forever. It's a lifetime and
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  Speaker 6: type thing. Just that that working relationship is now over.
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  Speaker 6: So let's let's see what John can do.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 5: I'm excited. I'm happy for Pete.
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  Speaker 6: Man, he gets to be a grandfather and chill for
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  Speaker 6: a little bit and then decide whether he wants to.
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  Speaker 5: Do ball or not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, John has obviously been a big
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  Speaker 3: part of everything. Those two were so synonymous together in
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  Speaker 3: building this this franchise and what it is to this day.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm really excited to see what John can
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  Speaker 3: do and what he's going to do when he looks,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to hire a new head coach. The cool
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  Speaker 3: thing that he talked about in his press conference as
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  Speaker 3: well was culture and how that was going to be
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  Speaker 3: something that he was you know, objective number one coming
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  Speaker 3: from ownership.
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  Speaker 7: That's it our culture. And then how are we evolving?
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  Speaker 7: Who's going to help us move to the next level?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 7: How are we going to you know, compete with everybody
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  Speaker 7: that we need to compete with and advance this this
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  Speaker 7: organization moving forward. And that's a I think We're going
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  Speaker 7: to learn so much of this process about the ideas
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  Speaker 7: and you know, I'm proud of all the connections we
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  Speaker 7: have around the National Football League, and we've learned a
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  Speaker 7: lot already, and so to be able to understand what
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  Speaker 7: that looks like. You know, different opinions, different philosophies open
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  Speaker 7: the door, two different ideas. Whether it's a defensive head
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  Speaker 7: coach or a offensive head coach or a special teams
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  Speaker 7: is becoming a head coach. I think that's all just
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  Speaker 7: really really important.
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  Speaker 3: We're not necessarily going to speculate into who this person
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  Speaker 3: is going to be because there's a million things and
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of interviews in John and his staff
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  Speaker 3: is going.
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  Speaker 4: To handle all that.
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  Speaker 3: But when you knowing what you have in John Snyder
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  Speaker 3: and the players you got on this team, what gives
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  Speaker 3: you confidence that this team, whoever is in the leadership
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  Speaker 3: position as head coach, can take that next step in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four and build off the core players that
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  Speaker 3: they have on this roster today.
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  Speaker 5: Man, Because you got some balls here.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 6: I know nine to eight fell short, and understand all
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  Speaker 6: of that disappointing year, but you still got some news.
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  Speaker 6: I look at the offense, I go, all right, you're
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  Speaker 6: a couple of linemen away from really doing this thing.
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  Speaker 6: I look at the defense, I go you're a linebacker,
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  Speaker 6: a defensive lineman away, and some guys getting healthy from
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  Speaker 6: really doing this thing. So no, I'm excited, man, I'm
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  Speaker 6: again out. I'm always hesitant to use excited because I
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  Speaker 6: never want to disrespect Pete. I prefer Pete was here,
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  Speaker 6: you know, let's not get that twisted. But since this
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  Speaker 6: is a new start, I'm just excited to see how
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  Speaker 6: whoever comes in takes the foundational pieces and bills off
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  Speaker 6: of that, because there are some ballers here that are
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  Speaker 6: going to contribute and help whoever gets this head coaching job.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be I'm excited that I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 3: my popcorn ready whenever that is announced.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, there's rules.
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  Speaker 3: About when you can interview people and when they can
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  Speaker 3: if they're currently coaching.
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  Speaker 4: He's got to be out to divisional playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: There's all kinds of stuff going on in the football
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  Speaker 3: side of things, which I won't speculate on because we're
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  Speaker 3: just gonna be our popcorn ready like the rest of
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  Speaker 3: you twelve's and figure out what's gonna happen with this search.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm definitely excited, you know, looking forward to what
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  Speaker 3: this organization is going to become with a new head
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  Speaker 3: coach and where they're going to go next year. But
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  Speaker 3: before we look ahead to next year and all that stuff,
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: there were a lot of guys that made play. So
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: we're gonna continue giving our flowers when we look at
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: the season long playmakers.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Touchdown playmakers, total.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Holy always start with quarterbacks and Gino had a great year.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: He was three twenty three for fort ninety nine sixty
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: four percent completion percentage, three six hundred and twenty four yards,
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: twenty touchdowns, nine interceptions, sacked thirty one times, did have
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: thirty seven carries for one hundred and fifty five yards
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: in a touchdown, one hundred.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: And four QB reading rating.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Led five game winning drives this season, which was the
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: most in the National Football League. So you know, saying
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: he can't win a game late wasn't clutch. That narrative
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: is completely dead. He's got fifteen career game winning drives
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: and only sixty six starts. He did all this missing
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: two games, and yeah, he didn't have the year that
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: he had statistically in twenty twenty two, but you know,
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: he missed a couple of games and he kind of
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: had a foot flops. He started really strong last year
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: and struggled a little bit down the stretch, and this
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: year he struggled a little bit early on but finished
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: really strong down the stretch.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: So I like what we have in Gino. He's proven
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: that he can play.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: He's proven that he can come up clutch when the
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: team needs him, and he's really probably a couple of
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: plays away from leading seven game winning drives, maybe even
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: eight for all the games the Seahawks could have won
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: this year.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: So big up to Gino Smith.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: I still think we have our quarterback right now, whether
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks draft one moving forward, but we have our
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: guy right now.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: And I loved what I saw from Gino this year.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, Man.
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: It wasn't last year's performance, but it was a good
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: enough performance to keep your team competitive and in the
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: playoff hunting to the very last game, and that's all
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: you want.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Man, Big up to Gino. We got to Sean salne
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: on ken Walker.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: Man, he missed some games where I missed two games,
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: but he rush for a nine hundred and five yards
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: eight touchdowns. He had twenty nine receptions for twenty fifty
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: nine yards in one touchdown. He was one short of
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: career high rushing touchdowns. I love Ken Walker and what
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: he brings to this team. If you look at all
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: the teams that are left in the playoffs as of now,
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: most of them have a really good running game, minus
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the weakest run game in NFL football. Well,
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: but sometimes you get lucky. But whoever comes in again,
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: you have a guy who can run the rock. You
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: got your quarterback, you got your running back, and then
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: you got a number one receiver to DK Metcalf sixty
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: six receptions, one and fourteen yards eight touchdowns on the season.
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: He's all over the Seahawk record, but he has the
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: most receiving yards, receptions, and touchdowns in the first five
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: seasons in franchise history. He's fourth in the NFL receiving
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: touchdowns since twenty nineteen.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: With forty three.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Dka also became the third player in NFL history to
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: reach fifty receptions, nine hundred yards and five touchdowns in
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: each of his first five seasons, and he's only missed
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: one game. The evolution of DK has been fun to
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: watch and he's always available, only miss one game. Man
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: stays healthy.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you're a new head, you're looking at
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: someone like that and you're like, yeah, I would like
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: some more of fourteen because he's a ball Another guy
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: in that receiver room that was also balling out the series,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Tyler Lockett seventy nine receptions eight hundred ninety four yards
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: five touchdowns on the season, became the second player in
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: franchise history and the ninety fourth player in NFL history
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: to have six hundred receptions. His forty nine touchdowns his
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: twenty eighteen are tied for six in the NFL. He
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: also moved into second place for all the Seahawks major
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: receiving records, So we're talking second receptions now with six
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: hundred and twelve, second receiving yards with seven nine hundred
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: and ninety four, and second in touchdowns with fifty nine,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: all behind one of the greatest ever do with Steve Largin,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: And unfortunately for Locke, it's gonna be pretty hard to
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: catch to catch Larger because he is way up there.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: When Larger retired, he literally was the leader in every
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: category in the National Football League, and Tydler has been reliable,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: only missed three games out of a possible one hundred
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: and forty four regular season games during his career. Unfortunately, Bummer,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: his streak of a thousand yard seasons came to an
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: end at four years consecutively. But Lockett was bawing out.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: You know, he's still a really important part of this offense.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: And then the last of the receiver I'll talk about
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Bump is jsn rookie sixty three receptions, six hundred and
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: twenty yards, four touchdowns, became only rookie, the only rookie
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: since nineteen sixty with two game winning touchdown receptions in
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: the final minute of the fourth quarter. Did this all
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: after he broke his risks in the first during the preseason,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: never missed a game, Bump. I know if I told
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: you that you'd have that stat line in his first year,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: you would say sign me in for that three times.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Because with those other.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Guys in the offense and him doing that, we solved
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: our third receiver issue that we've kind of nagged this
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: team for a long time. He's in and he's going
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: to be a lot more than that. Obviously we saw
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: the potential, but I'm really excited to see where this
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: receiving corps is.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Man, it's looking good, especially with the addition of js
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: and excited for that young man out of Ohio State,
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: the OG Bobby Wagner put together another great season, one
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: hundred and eighty three tackles, three and a half, seven
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: eleven TFLs and three passes defended. He's one hundred and
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: eighty three tackles are a career high and ties to
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: see how single season franchise record of one hundred and
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: eighty three said by who Jordan Brooks just last season
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: couldn't even let him have a season, you know, man,
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: a couple season of having that record. But Ragner is
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: also second and third on that list when it comes
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: to tackles in the season. By starting the season finale
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: in Arizona, Wagner tied Jeff Bryant for fifth place in
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: franchise history with one hundred and sixty seven games started. Man,
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: he was a second team All Pro. And it was
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: cool to see fifty four back in that uniform. Last
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: year he wore a different color blue.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: There were some yellow in him. The numbers were flipped.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: It was like a whole different universe now he was back.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: It was nice to see five four with the green
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: dot doing his thing.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Man, love love to see Bobby loved you know, he
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: talked about in his press conference Dame the year that
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: he intends to keep playing, and we love to see
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: it because fifty four special in our colors love to
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: see it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Then you talk about Julian Love.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Man, the newcomer to the squad, and he had one
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: hundred and twenty three tackles, one TfL, ten passes defended,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: four interceptions, leading the team, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: got a Pro Bowl nod for the first time, and
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: set a career high in tackles, And that was really
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: good to see because we didn't know we're going to
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: get from Jamal Adams in terms of his injury history.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: So having Julian love step in and really come on
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: down the stretch and be a player that was relied
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: upon and really a good anchor in the secondary. So
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: love what we saw from Julian Love because my man
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: definitely had a great season, all time season. So congrats
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: on your new baby and go enjoy yourself in the
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Pro Bowl.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah man, first time Pro bowler. You love to see
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: it about Jordan Brooks got that we didn't expect to see.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: I didn't expect to see him for a while, but
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: he started the season Man one hundred and twenty three tackles,
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: four and a half sacks, eight tackles for loss, four
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: passes defended, one interception, and one force fumble. He appeared
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: in sixteen games. Mean, that's nuts. Six months after tearing
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: his ACL. He also battle back from an ankle injury
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: the last six games of the season.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: This guy's as tough as they come.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: I know that the linebacker group is in good hands
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: if they get a deal done.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: My guy, We'll see what they do with Jordan by
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: expecting to be back.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: I'm glad he got another season to learn under the
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: og Bobby Wagner. Jordan to fight all odds six months
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: after surgery, that's crazy to me, and he still put
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: together their great season.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, JB was Yeah, it's honestly, he's an act of God.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: The fact that he was out there as quick as
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: he was so big up to JB. And then the
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: rookie should be defensive Rookie of the Year without question.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: If you look at the numbers, they.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Can't get us twice. They can't do that to us twice.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Hey, come on, now, had today we got robbed last year.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: But you look at spoon Man seventy nine tackles, three sacks,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: eight TFLs, sixteen passes defended, one force fumblem ninety seven
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: yard pick six. He did this in fourteen games, missed
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: three games. His sixteen passes defended were still fifth in
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: the entire NFL. Okay, and my case for Rookie of
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: the Year is obviously if we're just talking about rookies,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: especially because he's good enough to be a Pro Bowler
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: first of all, so he's probably good enough to be
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year. Only rookie to make the Pro
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Bowl on defense, so Jalen Carter the other guy that's
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: probably up for this award. Okay, then you have Pro
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Football's top graded rookie defender six hundred stavs pffs, top
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: graded Seahawks player finished with sixteen pass defended, eighttfls, three sacks,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: one of seven players in only rookie to hit those
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: marks since nineteen ninety nine. I mean, I rest my case,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: but dude was a bother. He clearly when Pete Carroll
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: said that he reminded of Troy Paulamalu, the instincts and
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: all that, Yeah, that checks out.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: So give my man what he deserves. He deserves to
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: be Rookie of the Year.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: And he's going to be a guy that is going
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: to be a superstar in this league, no question about it.
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, spoon they called him what quadrat call him Lil spoon.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Hey he's hey, he's a spoon. Now he didn't graduated. Yeah,
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: happy for that guy. How about Jay Reed coming back
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: this year put together a good season man, Jaran Reed
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: fifty four tackles, seven sacks, seven tackles for lost, two
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: passes defendant, and one force fumble.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: He was a guy that kind of got the sacks going.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: You're trying to figure out where these sacks were going
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: to come from because of Chenna I suffer the injury.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: You think it is a boy as he gonna take
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: another step.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: We'll talk about him later. Is going to be dtam.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Everyone got involved, but Jay Reed got the party going.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: And how about the mid season acquisition of Big Kat
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: Leonard Williams from the New York Football Giants. He had
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: forty one tackles for sacks, nine TfL's, one pass defended,
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: and he did it with ten games.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Also, you pointed this out, he did not have a
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: bye week.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: He sacrificed the bye week getting traded from New York
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: already had there or the Hawks already had their bye week.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: He comes over here and says, keep the party going.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: I'm healthy. The twenty nine year old helped us out
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: this year.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I really hope Big Cat is a guy
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: that's back on this team next year because of what
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: we saw from him, the potential inside. He can be
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: an anchor on this team and really helped good the
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: defense turn around.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: So hopefully you see him. And then boy A.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Man, if there's anyone on this team that really took
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: a step from freshman year to second year player, it
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: was boy A. Mafe fifty two tackles, nine sacks, led
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: the team, nine TfL, six pass defended, wooden force fumble,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: two fumble recoveries. He did this thing. At one point
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: he had seven straight games with a sack. And the
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: cool thing about boy A is that he has so
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: much room to grow, so much room to grow, because
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: he's not even he's just scratching the surface of his potential.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Once he kind of figures some stuff out, more so
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: in the run game and gets consistent at setting that edge,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: he is going to be a perennial pro Bowl type player.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: So really love what we've seen from Boya this year
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: and this season. So a lot of ballers. We could
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: have gone on and on. There's other people that contributed
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: this team, but we want to make sure those guys
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: got their flowers this year. And then I just want
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: to give you guys a quick little preview of what
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: you can expect from the Seahawks.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Kind of offseason calendar. Coming up, what's on tap?
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: What's on tap?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: So coming up on the calendar, things to circle.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: NFL Combine February twenty seventh to March fourth, so some
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: people call it the under our Olympics. That's where a
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: lot of dreams come true. Run your forty times, do
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: your three cone, all that good stuff. So then coming
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: up after that, what's really important Free agency March thirteenth
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: is when it officially starts, So you're gonna start. That's
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: we officially start seeing people sign with teams. You obviously
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: hear stuff leak out before that. Then teams can get
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: into their offseason programs. NFL Draft April twenty fifth through
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: the twenty seventh, and then depending on the new head
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: coach or schedule, usually the rookie Mini Camp is either
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: the week following the draft or the week after the draft.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Then you got the.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Schedule release in may OTA's mandatory mini camp, and you know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: towards the end of June, and then we'll be back
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: at it in training camp, bump back at it in
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: training camp again.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: I'm bummed.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I'm bummed that we're not talking all y'all getting ready
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: to go to San Francisco because we saw what happened
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: in Dallas.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Gosh darn it day we saw, Oh what happened. That
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: should have been us, That should have been us.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: But you know, unfortunately the clock just ran out on
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: the season.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: On me taken by Huntley.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: They're just gonna left the clock wind down.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: But it's not even gonna bother taking that last time out.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: See, it's got a lot of address this offseason, bump,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: but a lot to look forward to. Man, And when
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I look at this, I think there's a lot of potential.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: I'm excited for what could happen. And Uh, when you
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: look at this offseason, what's the favorite part of the
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: off season for you? Are you're a combined guy, your
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: draft guy, you're an OCA guys, what do you get
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: excited about?
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: I'm a draft guy, man, I want to see you
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: got the number sixteen pick. What are you gonna do
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: with that pick? Is it offense? Is a defense? You
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: don't have a second round pick. We know John likes
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: to flip picks into turn three and a four on
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: a seven. You know that's what John does. I want
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: to see what they do with that second round pick
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: and see how motivated these veteran guys come back. You know,
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: we know there are some guys who are going to
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: be here. Spoon to be here, Requill be here, DK,
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: Lockett and Walker. We're assuming all the guys that we
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: just talked about now most of them will be here.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: How are they gonna work on their games? But it
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: starts with the draft.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: I love the draft. I love the drama of it.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Sorry and get things rolling.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, the off season goes by pretty quick, so
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: this is kind of what's gonna go on from here
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: on out.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: So if there's some big news being bumble hop back
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: on here.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: When the Seahawks a side and you know, have whoever's
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: gonna be the next head coach of the Seahawks and
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: other news that kind of comes up through the off season.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: So we're not gonna leave you hanging this whole time.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: But but man, we've been doing this for five years.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: Man, that's pretty crazy.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: Like next year's gonna be the best year too. Let's go.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be the best year because we're gonna go
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: till February and we're gonna win a super Bowl and
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: all those good things are gonna happen.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: We'll get our rings, we're gonna have our party down
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: and so it's Vegas.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: It was Vegas this year, but next year it's gonna
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: be Dang, that's where I looked it up.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. We'll be there.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: We'll be there, don't matter. Book the tickets somewhere.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Well, we be preppy sire. You guys listening all season.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Like I said, we'll be with you preodicky throughout the
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: offseason and keep you up to date on the latest
• 29:04
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• 29:04
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