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Hawk Talk with Michael Bumpus - 2020 Season Preview · 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 at the ten yard line. Second to day
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Speaker 1: free wide receivers now in motion as Umpas left to right,
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Speaker 1: Julius Jones a single setback map Pumpfec's looking at the
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Speaker 1: gold 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 Puppus and
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Speaker 1: the kid out of Washington State has found himself a
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Speaker 1: place on this team. Powered by Seahawks dot Com. What
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Speaker 1: a folk. This is Michael Bumpus along with Nasa Choby
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Speaker 1: and this is the Hag Talk preview regular season open.
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Speaker 1: It's getting real. We're playing football this week, Nash. Let's go.
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Speaker 1: This is real life, man. I mean, through this pandemic
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Speaker 1: and everything that we're going through, I am so excited
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Speaker 1: to be talking about a real game on Sunday. We're
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Speaker 1: not talking to my games. We're not talking no practice,
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Speaker 1: no you know, contacting the ration period. We are talking football,
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Speaker 1: real NFL football, man. Let's go real NFL football. I'm
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Speaker 1: amped up, you're amped up, so let's talk. Let's get
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Speaker 1: right into it. Let's talk about the Seattle Seahawks, how
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Speaker 1: they look in twenty twenty and who they kept. So
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Speaker 1: they retained Jarren Reid, Jordan Timmas, Nicol Thorpe who is
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Speaker 1: still a captain on the special Team's Union, which I
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Speaker 1: thought was dope, Mike you Potty, Luke Wilson, David Moore,
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Speaker 1: Jacob Hollister, and then the man flash himself, Josh Gordon
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Speaker 1: has been resigned. What are your thoughts on the guys
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Speaker 1: that they retained, do they take him to the next level?
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Speaker 1: What do you see in this group? Well, it's been
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Speaker 1: big man. I mean, we'll start with the first guy
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Speaker 1: you mentioned and Jaren Reid. Like you know, in twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 1: he had ten sacks, had the best season his career,
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Speaker 1: a guy that's been doing it and been a big
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Speaker 1: part of this locker room and his team. So I'm
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Speaker 1: really excited about him. And last year obviously he didn't
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Speaker 1: start the season, he came in after six games. So
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Speaker 1: I'm looking for him to come back to that twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen form and just kind of perform, really help
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Speaker 1: bring the pressure from the inside, and I'm looking for
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Speaker 1: him to have a really big breakout. Ye you know
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Speaker 1: what you're getting from the other guys. Man Nico Thorpe
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Speaker 1: is the life in this locker room, the man gets
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Speaker 1: after on special team's good depth in the secondary. Mike
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Speaker 1: you Potty, he's an og. We've seen what he's been
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Speaker 1: doing for years. He's still gonna be good. He stays healthy.
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Speaker 1: And then Luke Wilson another guy that I'm super excited about,
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Speaker 1: just because again he's like Nico Thorpe, the energy he
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Speaker 1: brings to this team. He knows the system. He's been
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Speaker 1: here for so long, so he's definitely gonna help a
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Speaker 1: really talented tight end room. And Jacob Hollister and then
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Speaker 1: Josh Gordon hopefully we'll get to see him soon. So
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Speaker 1: I feel good about those guys. What about you? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I feel good about it. Jarren Red he needs to
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Speaker 1: pop and he needs the ball this year. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's only three three D bad defensive tackle at that
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Speaker 1: position as of now. You assume they're gonna have some
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Speaker 1: guys to that spot up the season goes along, or
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Speaker 1: bring out from practice squad, whatever, they're gonna make moves there.
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Speaker 1: But Jarren Red needs to go and he has a
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Speaker 1: full off season kind of a full off season because
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Speaker 1: no OTAs or whatnot. But he's had a full camp,
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Speaker 1: he's there, he's ready to go. The guy was worried
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Speaker 1: about out of that group was Luke Wilson. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: sure what they were gonna do with Luke Wilson because
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Speaker 1: you have Greg Olsen, you goat Jacob all this straight.
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Speaker 1: Don't forget Uncle Will. I wasn't sure if they're gonna
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Speaker 1: carry forward tight ends. They're carrying forward. That's nice to see.
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Speaker 1: If they didn't carry for I'm sure they would try
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Speaker 1: to get Luke on the practice squad. And David Moore.
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Speaker 1: David Moore Man, he's been one of the most consistent
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Speaker 1: receivers during this camp and one of the least talked
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Speaker 1: about at the same time, because you have DK, you
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Speaker 1: have Lockett, then you bring in Philip doors set and
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Speaker 1: you're just thinking your focus is on those guys. And
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Speaker 1: Demo is being consistent. He's been humble, he's been quiet,
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Speaker 1: he's been going out and making play. So I'm happy
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Speaker 1: to see that dude get another opportunity. I think he
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Speaker 1: can get it done. So I like the group. So
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Speaker 1: now let's switch over to the guys that they added,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna save the best for last. Okay, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: Carlos High coming off a thousand yard season, Greg Ohs
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Speaker 1: some triple og, b J Finney, who is supposed to
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Speaker 1: battle for that center spot, Cedric Oh boy they got
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Speaker 1: from the Jacks, Brandon Shell who's holding down that tackle spot.
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Speaker 1: Quentin Dunbar. We were kind of suspect is he gonna
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Speaker 1: be here or not? And then Philip Doors set last
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Speaker 1: but not least, the guy who's made the biggest impact
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Speaker 1: on this defense so far this year, Jamal Adams, what
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Speaker 1: are your thoughts, man, Well, when you talk about that
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Speaker 1: group of guys. Honestly, Jamal Adams, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: get ahead of myself, but that man immediately brings us
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Speaker 1: to probably the best secondary, if not one of the
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Speaker 1: best in the NFL. I mean, straight up, watching this
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Speaker 1: guy up close at practice, I mean he just, first
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Speaker 1: of all, the juice he brings is unreal. It's unparalleled, man,
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Speaker 1: It's it's some stuff I feel like we haven't seen
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Speaker 1: around here outside of guys like Bobby Wagner on that
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Speaker 1: defensive side. And what we're gonna be able to have
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Speaker 1: him do. I mean, we don't really know, we're probably
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Speaker 1: gonna see it at all, whether it's in pass rush,
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Speaker 1: whether it's you know, in the box, whether it's making
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Speaker 1: plays in the back end as a deep safety. So
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Speaker 1: Jamal Adams is someone that I think you pair him
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Speaker 1: with Shaquille Griffin, Trey Flowers, Slash, Quentin Dunbar Quandre Diggs,
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Speaker 1: who they both already have a great relationship, I mean honestly,
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Speaker 1: top to bottom. I think that makes us one of
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Speaker 1: the best secondaries in the league. And then you talked
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Speaker 1: about a couple of other guys, Greg Olsen. You know
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Speaker 1: what he's going to get with Greg Man. Greg is
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Speaker 1: a true professional on and off the field. He's been
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Speaker 1: battled some injuries the last couple of years, but if
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Speaker 1: he can stay healthy like he's done so far in camp,
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Speaker 1: he's gonna really bolster that room. And then you bring
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Speaker 1: in a guy like Brandon Schell, who has been holding
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Speaker 1: it down. He came in here and he essentially took
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Speaker 1: that starting job and he's gonna ride with it. So
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Speaker 1: like I love the guys they added, I think it
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Speaker 1: really is a huge improvement from last season. Yeah, I agree,
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Speaker 1: Jamal Adams was gonna change the game in the back end.
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Speaker 1: I forgot to mention Ben to Mayo and Bruce Irvin.
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Speaker 1: That's what twelve thirteen sacks right there, you can talk
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Speaker 1: about this team had twenty eight sacks like sure, the
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Speaker 1: bottom of the barrel along with the Atlanta Falcons and
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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Gotta get up out of here, gotta
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Speaker 1: get out out the bottom of the league. Ben to
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Speaker 1: Mayo and Bruce Irvin should be the guys. Do that.
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Speaker 1: You talk about Bruce Irvin, all, he's old, he's this,
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Speaker 1: he's that, he's coming off his best year as a
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Speaker 1: professional nass. You talk about ben to Mayoa, Oh, we
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Speaker 1: don't know what he can do. He had seven a
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Speaker 1: half sacks as a rotational guy for the Raiders. So
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Speaker 1: they didn't sign the big names that the Twelves were
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Speaker 1: looking for, but they did get better on the defense
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Speaker 1: on that defensive line well, especially too with Bruce Irvin's
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Speaker 1: he's kind of the jack of all trades. He can
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Speaker 1: well have him listened at Sam so he can do
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Speaker 1: that in the lineback and stuff, and he's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a big part of the pass rush. He's been in
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Speaker 1: the system, he's been around Pete, he's been around the
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Speaker 1: guy So I think those guys and it's all kind
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Speaker 1: of by committee, right, because if you look at the
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Speaker 1: defensive line, I would look for L. J. Collier to
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Speaker 1: step up big this year, right, I would look for
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Speaker 1: Rashie Green to take another step poona Ford. He's shown
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Speaker 1: some flashes. So I think it's gonna be by committee.
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Speaker 1: We kind of get all hung up on the numbers.
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Speaker 1: Is so and so we can get ten and so
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Speaker 1: and so we can get twelve? Where those big time
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Speaker 1: numbers is gonna come from? Since we lost like Frank Clark.
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Speaker 1: But I think they're gonna get it done by committee.
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Speaker 1: And we already talked about the secondary a little bit.
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Speaker 1: I think having a stronger secondary is gonna help that
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Speaker 1: whole unit. Yep, I agree. And here's a perfect example
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Speaker 1: about why a village the village approach works. Name one
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Speaker 1: guy on the Panthers defensive line, Julius Peppers ain't playing
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Speaker 1: there no more. Right, Okay, that's some last one I
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Speaker 1: can remember. No disrespect to the Panthers, but they had
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Speaker 1: over fifty sacks and nobody knows who's on their D line. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's the approach that these Seahawks have to take. No
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Speaker 1: One knows this is all good, but by week eight nine,
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Speaker 1: make some noise and have them talking about you. All right,
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Speaker 1: So now let's talk about the key departures. Justin Britt
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Speaker 1: is out of here. They cut him after his injury,
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Speaker 1: but he was lingering around. He was living in Belvy,
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Speaker 1: who was working out. People thought that he might show
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Speaker 1: up again. George Stannis gone, Jamaa Fettie, Bradley McDougall was
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Speaker 1: involved with the trade for Jamal Adams. Quentin Jefferson is gone,
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Speaker 1: and sorry to see him go, But I'm just glad
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Speaker 1: that it's over because I was tired of hearing about it.
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Speaker 1: Jadeveon clown out of those guys, obviously, we're gonna miss
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Speaker 1: Clowney the most, just because of the things that he
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Speaker 1: did that people didn't really recognize because it didn't show
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Speaker 1: up on a stat sheet. Who else are you gonna
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Speaker 1: miss out of that group? Well, I mean all those
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Speaker 1: were good locker room dudes. For sure. I think I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna miss out of that group. We missed Justin Britt
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Speaker 1: and George fan. I think Justin Britt when he first
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Speaker 1: came to the Seahawks, he's playing tackohol and then he
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Speaker 1: moved to guard, but he really kind of found himself
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Speaker 1: at center, and he kind of stepped up when the
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Speaker 1: young offensive line kind of needed a leader. Now he
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Speaker 1: got Dwayne Brown in there. Now he got you Potty,
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Speaker 1: You got some other veterans. But I just kind of
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Speaker 1: like the way he carried himself and he turned himself
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Speaker 1: into a Pro Bowl type player. And then George Fantman,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss hearing number seventy four is eligible. Number
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Speaker 1: seventy four is eligible. I'm gonna miss hearing that man.
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Speaker 1: He just did so much good stuff for us, and
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Speaker 1: I loved having that package that we had with him
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Speaker 1: where he'd come in as an extra tight end all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. So those are two guys I'm gonna miss
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Speaker 1: for sure. But like I said, I think now with
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Speaker 1: the offensive line that we got and the guys who
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Speaker 1: got in place, I feel kind of dead about how
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Speaker 1: we're doing. Out of those guys, I'm gonna miss McDougal
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Speaker 1: the most. I just there was like a calming presence
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Speaker 1: about McDougal in the back. He wasn't going to light
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Speaker 1: it up, but he was going to make the tackle.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't going to cause a lot of turnovers, but
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Speaker 1: he was going to be around the ball. He was
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Speaker 1: like one of those constants on that back end that
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Speaker 1: kind of gets lost in the mix because he's not
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Speaker 1: gonna wild you with a super athletic player anything like that.
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Speaker 1: But he was one of the most veteran back there,
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Speaker 1: one of the most confident. It just a calming presence.
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna miss that, dude. MacDougal, So season preview, all,
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Speaker 1: I what can we expect from the Hawks in twenty twenty?
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Speaker 1: This is what I expect, and I'll let you dive
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Speaker 1: into it. I expect this offense to take another level
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Speaker 1: because Russell's going to take another level. He's never got
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Speaker 1: an MVP vote, He's never finished the season with a
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Speaker 1: seventy seventy percent completion rate or better. So I think
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Speaker 1: he's chasing something. He always finds something to chase, right,
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Speaker 1: So I think he knows that, and I think he
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Speaker 1: is going to chase that. And because he's chasing that,
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Speaker 1: this team is going to get better offensively, amongst a
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Speaker 1: bunch of other things. I think about the Sea twenty twenty.
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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts? Well, I am right there with you, man.
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Speaker 1: I think I think if any year. This is year
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson can get that MVP. Man. I mean, through
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Speaker 1: about ten games last year, he was the clear candidate.
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Speaker 1: And then it's hard to account for Lamar Jackson having
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Speaker 1: the unbelievable season he had last year. So I can't
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Speaker 1: take anything away from that man. But our guy Arrist
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Speaker 1: we know at number three can do so I'm right
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Speaker 1: there with you. I think for me, our offense was
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Speaker 1: the strength the team last year, right, we had a
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Speaker 1: great running game. Obviously Number three was amazing last year.
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Speaker 1: I think our defense returns to the level that we're
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Speaker 1: accustomed of seeing it. Right. So I'm not saying legendary
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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, you know, LB Super Bowl champion, per se,
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Speaker 1: but I'm saying they have the guys now that can
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Speaker 1: get there. We mentioned a little bit ago the secondary
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Speaker 1: billing built from the back forward man between our safeties
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Speaker 1: to that tannem Is vessinally Quandre Diggs, Jamal Adams. Then
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Speaker 1: you got you got some lockdown corps on the outside.
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Speaker 1: Jaquille Griffin is gonna take another step I look forward
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Speaker 1: and be more of a He's gonna be a Pro
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Speaker 1: Bowl guy. This year's just straight up. Then Llyflowers and
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Speaker 1: Quentin Dunbar. Then you go to linebacking corps. We know
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Speaker 1: what we got from Bobby in kJ and then young
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Speaker 1: guys stepping up front. So I think this defense isn't
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Speaker 1: gonna get too level. They're gonna climb back inside the
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Speaker 1: top ten and all those defensive categories back inside the
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Speaker 1: top ten. That will be awesome. When you have on
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Speaker 1: offense that at some point one point in the season
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Speaker 1: was a top five offensive, you can get a defense
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Speaker 1: that's top ten as well. That'd be awesome. The twenty
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Speaker 1: eighth last year, so they got a lot of a lot,
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Speaker 1: a lot of room to make up, but I think
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Speaker 1: they can do it all. Right. Where did the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: improve the most from last year? The most? Um, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I was just I mean, I feel like I keep
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Speaker 1: beating the drum. But it's it's defensively, It's it's in
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Speaker 1: the secondary. Man. I think they're just gonna cause havoc
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Speaker 1: in there. The thing that made the Seahawks really good
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Speaker 1: from two and twelve to twenty sixteen was their ability
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Speaker 1: to take the ball away, and I think that's coming back. Yep.
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Speaker 1: If that's where they improved the most, I would say
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Speaker 1: second behind that would be that offensive line. People are
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Speaker 1: excited in this organization about this offensive line. On the
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Speaker 1: left side. You got Brown, you got you potty post
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Speaker 1: against one of the center spot. You got Damian Lewis
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Speaker 1: as a rookie who's in there turning heads. You hear
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Speaker 1: um Dwayne Brown talk about how he's smart. You can
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Speaker 1: tell he's studied. And then you bring in Shell at
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Speaker 1: that tackle spot. Shell is not a sexy name where
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Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh, he's so much better than the fetty.
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Speaker 1: But let me remind people that he had half the
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Speaker 1: abilities that Effetti had, and Effetti played every game. He
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Speaker 1: was reliable, he was there, but every now and then
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Speaker 1: you stretch your head and be like, all right, what
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Speaker 1: was he thinking. You got to control that that aggression
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Speaker 1: and put it somewhere. So, uh yeah, I would say
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Speaker 1: that offensive line comes after that. So it was different
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Speaker 1: during training camp this year. Um, we weren't able to
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Speaker 1: be there the way we wanted. Two guys like you
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Speaker 1: who has that Tier three, Tier two Okay, I'm sorry
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Speaker 1: Tier two you got some more access than us, But
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Speaker 1: explain to us how how was this camp different than
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Speaker 1: other years. Well, obviously the number one thing is not
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Speaker 1: seen that twelves out on the burn, man, I mean,
12:32
Speaker 1: Seahawks training camp is a different experience in anywhere else
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Speaker 1: in the country. You're right there on Lake Washington. It's beautiful,
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Speaker 1: the sun still out. You got about three thousand fans
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Speaker 1: on that burn, screaming, yelling, waiting for autographs, DJ, Super Sam,
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. So that was definitely the biggest thing
12:47
Speaker 1: for me you noticed right away, which is kind of
12:49
Speaker 1: a different vibe. And then just all the protocols and
12:51
Speaker 1: stuff that their players had to do. Man, they had
12:53
Speaker 1: to they gotta wear contact tracing chips, they gotta they
12:57
Speaker 1: had to change how they lifted, they had a change
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Speaker 1: how they did all this stuff. That had a changed
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Speaker 1: how they met in meetings and stuff like that. But
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Speaker 1: they did all the right things. And as Pete aways
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Speaker 1: sucks about, you competed everything. They competed in how the
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Speaker 1: best they're going to handle this pandemic. So it was
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Speaker 1: a weird time. And then obviously the last thing is
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Speaker 1: no preseason games. M And you can speak to this man,
13:15
Speaker 1: it's it's it's so difficult for the coaching staff and
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Speaker 1: the players. But could you I mean, where would you
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Speaker 1: have been if there's no preseason. If there's no preseason, nass,
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Speaker 1: I'm not here talking to you right now. I don't
13:25
Speaker 1: make this football team. You know, you asked me as
13:29
Speaker 1: a thirty four year old man, a guy who could
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Speaker 1: be real with himself, like okay, like you were good,
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Speaker 1: but you weren't like superstar good. And if you didn't
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Speaker 1: have that preseason, you wouldn't even have a chance to
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Speaker 1: show that you can catch punts or that you can
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Speaker 1: go across the middle and catch the football. So it's
13:44
Speaker 1: stuff on those rookies. That's why no undrafted free agents
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Speaker 1: were signed, because they just don't know what they can do.
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Speaker 1: Are they're gonna roll the dice on these guys, And
13:53
Speaker 1: that right there just shows how hard the evaluation process
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Speaker 1: was on these guys because guarantee they missed on somebody.
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Speaker 1: And to you, other organizations missed on guys because they're
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Speaker 1: scared to roll the dice on something they haven't seen
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Speaker 1: in live play. So yeah, that was rough on those rookies.
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Speaker 1: I feel for them. Those those veterans who are on
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Speaker 1: the bubble are loving it. I'm sure though they're loving like,
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Speaker 1: hey man, I don't have this twenty four year old
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Speaker 1: trying to take my spot because I got three four
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Speaker 1: years of film. So yes, definitely tough. We any camp surprised,
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Speaker 1: Does anybody jump out and say, Okay, I wasn't expecting
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Speaker 1: him the ball out, but here he is, and now
14:27
Speaker 1: I know his name and I'm gonna follow us. Dude.
14:29
Speaker 1: We we kind of talked about this earlier in camp,
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Speaker 1: and it's Penny hart Man. He was a surprise. He
14:34
Speaker 1: wasn't initially part of the original fifty three. Hey, let
14:37
Speaker 1: me tell the people. You called it NASA show. He
14:40
Speaker 1: called it. I say, Nash, this is like beginning of camp.
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Speaker 1: I go, Nash, anybody I should be looking after him?
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Speaker 1: He said, you know what, bump, Penny Heart's out there
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Speaker 1: doing this thing. So you were right. Continue, sir. I
14:50
Speaker 1: appreciate that. I appreciate the little love love right there,
14:52
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But no, Penny hart Man
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Speaker 1: like he's a smaller guy. He's just a guy that
14:58
Speaker 1: just makes place. I mean. And that's the thing I
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Speaker 1: think you when you look at the pro personnel and
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Speaker 1: Josh Snyder and Pete Carroll, if you compete and you
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Speaker 1: show what you can do and you're given that chance,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna get a spot. And he did it every
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Speaker 1: single day. It didn't matter if it was a team period,
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Speaker 1: didn't matter if they're going against the ones, didn't matter
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Speaker 1: if they're going against the twos. It didn't matter any situation.
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Speaker 1: Penny was out there. He was making plays, and I
15:18
Speaker 1: look for him to be a guy you know that
15:20
Speaker 1: just finds his way to help out the team because
15:22
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys, is a big team guy.
15:25
Speaker 1: He's someone that all twelve should keep an eye on.
15:28
Speaker 1: My guy, Penny Hard is going to be making plays,
15:31
Speaker 1: so just keep him in the back of your mind.
15:32
Speaker 1: This year, Penny Hard, I would say not a surprise
15:35
Speaker 1: because he was drafted, but he was drafted lay Freddie Swain,
15:38
Speaker 1: that was my guy. Or I was like, look, you
15:40
Speaker 1: have to watch this dude. Now. He was hurt for
15:43
Speaker 1: a couple of days during camp, but you hear about
15:46
Speaker 1: how he can play any position, how he's a positive dude,
15:50
Speaker 1: all the things that Pete Carroll looks for. How can
15:53
Speaker 1: you contribute to the team. Now, he can contribute to
15:55
Speaker 1: special teams. He can play every position, and what's your attitude?
15:58
Speaker 1: Like Freddie Swayin was my guy. I wouldn't call it
16:01
Speaker 1: a surprise, but being a what six stepth round pick,
16:04
Speaker 1: sixth round pick. Um. He exceeded expectations. So offense Outlook
16:12
Speaker 1: here here's a question. Will we let Russ cook this year? Well,
16:17
Speaker 1: you know what, nass, dude's been cooking his whole life,
16:20
Speaker 1: all right, and this is why he's been This is
16:22
Speaker 1: why he's been cooking. Okay, first nine seasons and be
16:26
Speaker 1: any quarterback and all the land that played in the NFL.
16:29
Speaker 1: When it comes to wins, Russell Wilson is fourth with
16:31
Speaker 1: eighty six, behind Tom Brady, Rothslisberger and Mannie. Now he's
16:36
Speaker 1: only had eight seasons. He's got two more seasons to
16:39
Speaker 1: beat that. Something tells me he's gonna pass him up
16:41
Speaker 1: this year right now? Oh yeah. I mean the thing
16:43
Speaker 1: about Russ's he's just been mister consistent from day one, man,
16:47
Speaker 1: And everyone wants to talk about what are we doing?
16:49
Speaker 1: And we're gonna let him cook and we're gonna throw
16:51
Speaker 1: fifty toimes of game blah blah blah. The man has
16:54
Speaker 1: been cooking since he stepped foot in this building and
16:57
Speaker 1: on the football field since that third preseason game in
17:00
Speaker 1: two thou twelve. The man has been cooking. Nah, but
17:04
Speaker 1: he's not He's not throwing it forty fifty times though
17:06
Speaker 1: he's not. He'sn't he hasn't he hasn't thrown over thirty
17:10
Speaker 1: six touchdowns. Yet. I mean, I get people when they
17:13
Speaker 1: the average football fan, to be like, all right, they're
17:16
Speaker 1: not letting him do his thing. But he throws the
17:20
Speaker 1: most efficient deep ball in the game. He over the
17:24
Speaker 1: first nine seasons of any quarterback's career, he is one
17:27
Speaker 1: to the fifth on the list. As far as touchdown passes,
17:30
Speaker 1: he's still got one season ago. Most games will four
17:33
Speaker 1: plus touchdown passes and one fewer intersections. In the first
17:36
Speaker 1: nine seasons, he has ten paid Manning has thirteen. So
17:41
Speaker 1: he has shown right now, if he were to retire,
17:45
Speaker 1: something were to happen, he would be on a Hall
17:47
Speaker 1: of Fame ballot. And he's been cooking since he's been here,
17:50
Speaker 1: oh for sure. And I think we get soaked twisted
17:53
Speaker 1: in some of those numbers, because you're right, it's not
17:55
Speaker 1: it's not five hundred. There's not five thousand yards in this,
17:58
Speaker 1: it's not forty five touchdown, it's not some of these numbers.
18:02
Speaker 1: But you just gotta look at all of it, all
18:03
Speaker 1: of it together. You look at his winning percentage. You
18:06
Speaker 1: look at what he does in the fourth quarter. You
18:07
Speaker 1: look at his come from behind wins, and he gets
18:10
Speaker 1: it done when it counts. And and let me tell
18:13
Speaker 1: you something, we're probably gonna touch on this a little bit.
18:15
Speaker 1: Our receivers. Russ is going to continue to do him,
18:19
Speaker 1: but numbers are going to be put up all across
18:21
Speaker 1: the board. To promise you, everybody, all the twelve listening,
18:24
Speaker 1: my boy has been cooking and he's gonna continue to cook,
18:27
Speaker 1: continue to cook. So let's talk about these skill players. Okay,
18:30
Speaker 1: he's got Chris Carson and Carlos Hide both rush for
18:33
Speaker 1: a thousand yards last year. You got DK and lock
18:36
Speaker 1: it DK nine hundred yards, lock it over a thousand.
18:39
Speaker 1: That third receiver spot looks like it's gonna be David
18:41
Speaker 1: Moore to start nil. The door says, gonna be in
18:43
Speaker 1: the mix. Greg Olsen, you bring him in At that
18:46
Speaker 1: tight end spot. You're getting Will Disley back, who was
18:49
Speaker 1: one of the hottest tight ends in the league. He's
18:52
Speaker 1: played in ten ten games, I believe you, six touchdowns,
18:57
Speaker 1: ten games, six touchdowns, super efficient. Is this the most
19:01
Speaker 1: skilled or the most talented skills he's had since he's
19:06
Speaker 1: been here? You know, I thought about that a lot
19:09
Speaker 1: and wrote that question down, and I'm leaning towards yes,
19:11
Speaker 1: just because I think Dk metcalf is gonna have an
19:14
Speaker 1: unbelievable sophomore season. I mean, you watched him out of practice,
19:18
Speaker 1: the balls in the air. He's coming down with it,
19:20
Speaker 1: Quayne Blank period. And I think you guys talked to
19:23
Speaker 1: him on Danny and Gallant on seven ten ESPN, and
19:27
Speaker 1: when he was on there, you asked him what you
19:28
Speaker 1: asking me, asked him about being a receiver, and he
19:30
Speaker 1: put me in He put me in my place. Hey Dk,
19:33
Speaker 1: Hey Dk, you play outside? You getting that slide? The
19:37
Speaker 1: young man said, I'm a receiver. I said, thank you, sir,
19:39
Speaker 1: I appreciate you have a great day. And that's the
19:43
Speaker 1: right answer. So I think he's going to be a monster.
19:45
Speaker 1: We know what Tyler can. Tyler put up over a
19:47
Speaker 1: thousand yards last year, and if that man didn't get hurt,
19:49
Speaker 1: he was gonna I think he was gonna set the
19:51
Speaker 1: record for receiving yards in a season and Seahawks history.
19:54
Speaker 1: Then you talk about Chris Carson looking for his third
19:57
Speaker 1: one thousand yards season, and obviously so people will say
20:00
Speaker 1: you're geting ahead of yourself. Okay, let's took back at
20:01
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. Obviously at mark un Lynch, you had Golden Tate,
20:05
Speaker 1: you had Sidney Rice, you had Zach Miller, you had
20:08
Speaker 1: Jermaine Curse, Stuck Baldwin. I'm not saying the group right
20:12
Speaker 1: now is for sure better than those guys because their
20:15
Speaker 1: banners are hanging in centralink Field and here at the vMac. Ye.
20:18
Speaker 1: But what I'm seeing on paper and what these guys
20:21
Speaker 1: can do if we have we can have two thousand
20:22
Speaker 1: yard receivers, a thousand yard rusher you talked about Will Disley,
20:26
Speaker 1: I'll get our running games gonna be. I don't know, man,
20:28
Speaker 1: I think it's definitely in the conversation to at least
20:31
Speaker 1: consider this being the most talented group of offensive players
20:34
Speaker 1: bump as of now. They are definitely in the conversation.
20:37
Speaker 1: Whether whether they stay there or they are they conversation,
20:41
Speaker 1: we shall see. That's why we played, That's why we
20:43
Speaker 1: played the games. Play to win them all, right, play
20:46
Speaker 1: to win so lots of movement on this offensive line.
20:49
Speaker 1: They gave up what forty eight facts or something last year.
20:52
Speaker 1: Russ has been the most stack quarterback in the last
20:54
Speaker 1: two or three years they made some moves. There are
20:58
Speaker 1: a couple of names that people aren't familiar with on
21:01
Speaker 1: that offensive line. Does that matter? Do you think they
21:04
Speaker 1: got better? I mean I think I think they got
21:07
Speaker 1: a lot better. I think they got better at depthwise. Also,
21:09
Speaker 1: so they brought him, We brought him b J. Finney
21:12
Speaker 1: to compete for that center spot, and they definitely did.
21:14
Speaker 1: But what was promising to me is what I saw
21:17
Speaker 1: is and Pete talked about this, Ethan won the job.
21:20
Speaker 1: It wasn't like Fenny came in and lost it. Ethan
21:22
Speaker 1: won the job and he's been in our system for
21:24
Speaker 1: three years. He talked about how he was getting over
21:27
Speaker 1: some he had an injury kind of like a hip
21:28
Speaker 1: thing that really helped with his strength in some places
21:31
Speaker 1: when it came to pass pro and things like that.
21:33
Speaker 1: When he got surgery offseason. He's healthy, third year in
21:36
Speaker 1: a system and being at center kind of helps that.
21:39
Speaker 1: And then Damian lewis Man he came in and was
21:42
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup from the jump, So like, I
21:44
Speaker 1: think we got dudes there, and then you just look
21:46
Speaker 1: at the guys that are behind them. Jordan Simmons when
21:48
Speaker 1: he played last year was great. Jamarco Jones when he
21:51
Speaker 1: came in last year was great. Um Cedric a boy.
21:53
Speaker 1: He is a physical dude and he was on this
21:56
Speaker 1: team for a reason. So like I think we're I
21:58
Speaker 1: think we got better obviously, Dwayne Brown, I don't need
22:00
Speaker 1: to say anything about that. Man. He's a baddest man
22:02
Speaker 1: in planet with hands down. I just think we got better.
22:04
Speaker 1: I think our depth looks really good. What do you
22:06
Speaker 1: think about I'm with you. You got better depth? Is there?
22:09
Speaker 1: You still got guys like Phil Haynes, who is banged
22:11
Speaker 1: up right now, but there's still Jamarco Jones, Jordan Simmons.
22:15
Speaker 1: I mean they're like you said, there's some names there
22:17
Speaker 1: that hopefully we don't see because if we don't see him,
22:19
Speaker 1: that means that this line is healthy. They're ready to go.
22:21
Speaker 1: But if something were to happen, they're good to go.
22:24
Speaker 1: All right. That's the offense defensive outlook. For the first
22:28
Speaker 1: time in several years, the secondary might be the strongest
22:31
Speaker 1: position group on the roster. How does that make you
22:35
Speaker 1: feel that? Does this make you feel like Shop's not
22:38
Speaker 1: gonna throw for four hundred yards against US Week one?
22:41
Speaker 1: Because I can't see that again. Man, No, I don't
22:44
Speaker 1: think you don't think you will ever see any quarterback
22:46
Speaker 1: put up any of those kind of numbers ever. Again,
22:48
Speaker 1: that is on the shelf, that is riped. I've been
22:50
Speaker 1: beating this drum. I'm a dB at heart, so you
22:54
Speaker 1: know it warms my heart. Man, I just just because
22:57
Speaker 1: they have that energy and that thump too. Everyone to
23:00
Speaker 1: say near can hit. So like, I think it's gonna
23:03
Speaker 1: change what we were able to do as a defense
23:05
Speaker 1: man when we're bringing pressures and stuff like that. When
23:07
Speaker 1: you got guys can cover all across the board. So
23:09
Speaker 1: it makes me feel great. Man. And the name we
23:11
Speaker 1: haven't mentioned Marque's Blair. He stepped into that nickel spot. Honestly,
23:15
Speaker 1: I thought Ugomadi it was his spot to lose, but
23:18
Speaker 1: from from start to camp, it's kind of been Marquis's
23:20
Speaker 1: Blair spot to lose, and he's held onto it a
23:23
Speaker 1: spot he's never played before and never played nickel. He's
23:26
Speaker 1: a he's the truth safety. Um you hear. His cover
23:28
Speaker 1: skills are good. He's flying around to the football, he
23:31
Speaker 1: looks like he's been there. Adding him to that nickel
23:35
Speaker 1: spot will naturally allow this defense to be more dynamic
23:38
Speaker 1: because we know how much they stayed in that base
23:40
Speaker 1: last year, and he's not gonna say it, but it
23:42
Speaker 1: was because they just didn't trust their personnel. I think
23:45
Speaker 1: Marquis Blair adds the dynamic to this defense as well. Well, yeah,
23:48
Speaker 1: I can't believe I don't even mentioned that. No, that's
23:50
Speaker 1: a great point, Bump. I think Marquise in that spot
23:53
Speaker 1: definitely just changes us dynamically because you look at a
23:56
Speaker 1: guy that he was a safety, he'd come up there
23:57
Speaker 1: and hit you. I mean, you remember that that season
24:00
Speaker 1: game last year playing the Broncos. The ball over the
24:02
Speaker 1: middle and Marquis Blair, good night. I mean, the dude
24:05
Speaker 1: can and he made plays last time. I think we're
24:07
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, he forced a fumble. He's just he's a dynamic,
24:10
Speaker 1: special dude, and I think our secondary with him is
24:12
Speaker 1: gonna be un phenomenal for sure. Yeah, sir, Now you
24:16
Speaker 1: mentioned you need Jaron Reid to look like twenty eighteen
24:19
Speaker 1: jarn Reid if that's the case, to get ten sacks.
24:21
Speaker 1: So now me, I'm still calling LJ. Colly or rookie.
24:25
Speaker 1: He's only got one hundred and fifty snaps. Yes, is
24:27
Speaker 1: this his second year in the league, But he got
24:29
Speaker 1: banged up during camp, Like his third day at camp,
24:31
Speaker 1: missed a lot of stuff, so he was behind only
24:34
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty snaps. This dude needs to step up,
24:37
Speaker 1: and it sounds like his mind is in the right play.
24:40
Speaker 1: I'm listening to him talk and he just sounds confident,
24:43
Speaker 1: and yes, he has to go out and prove it,
24:45
Speaker 1: but I at least want to feel confidence coming from
24:48
Speaker 1: a guy who was a first round pick. With their
24:51
Speaker 1: expectations for LJ, I think LJ is gonna First of all,
24:54
Speaker 1: I think people kind of forget how hard it was
24:56
Speaker 1: for him last year. I mean it was like the
24:58
Speaker 1: third practice when he had a really bad ankle sprain
25:00
Speaker 1: and was down, and you miss your first NFL training camp,
25:03
Speaker 1: you don't play in training camp at all, you don't
25:06
Speaker 1: get in the preseason and do any of that stuff.
25:07
Speaker 1: For him to come on, you're just behind the eight
25:09
Speaker 1: ball from the jump. So I think, having you mentioned earlier,
25:12
Speaker 1: no OTAs, I get it, no mini camp, no preseason games.
25:16
Speaker 1: With the fact that he's been here and he came
25:18
Speaker 1: back in unbelievable shape, I'm looking for him to make
25:22
Speaker 1: a lot of headway this year. I'm looking for him
25:24
Speaker 1: to get be active inside and out, get some sacks,
25:26
Speaker 1: and then he's gonna be a part of a rotation.
25:28
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna ask him to play, you know,
25:30
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the snaps. I think it's gonna be
25:33
Speaker 1: by committee. But I do look for him to have
25:35
Speaker 1: a breakout year in year two. All Right, Falcon's preview.
25:38
Speaker 1: These guys were seven to nine last year. They finished
25:40
Speaker 1: third place in the NFC South. The thing about the
25:42
Speaker 1: Falcons that kind of scared me. You look at that record,
25:44
Speaker 1: but these dudes were six and two their last eight games,
25:47
Speaker 1: Like they got hot. They started one to seven, finished
25:50
Speaker 1: sixth and two, almost came back and beat the Hots.
25:53
Speaker 1: I think the Hawks are up twenty twenty to zero,
25:56
Speaker 1: twenty four to zero, a half that came back, finished
25:58
Speaker 1: the game twenty seven twenty four, something like that. But
26:00
Speaker 1: they got hot late in the season. So I see
26:03
Speaker 1: the record, and I don't really pay attention to it.
26:06
Speaker 1: I look at what I've seen on film. These guys
26:08
Speaker 1: look dangerous. Key matchups Shaquille Griffin, Trey Flowers, Quinn Dunbar
26:12
Speaker 1: versus Julio Jones. Ninety nine receptions, thirteen hundred yards, six touchdowns.
26:18
Speaker 1: The guy can catch a screen, he can catch a
26:20
Speaker 1: go a post, go across the middle. And I say
26:23
Speaker 1: this lightly, this is what I hope DK can be.
26:28
Speaker 1: I'm watching film on this dude, and they move kind
26:30
Speaker 1: of the same. I would say Julio is a little
26:32
Speaker 1: more flexible than than DK, but they'll do some things.
26:35
Speaker 1: I look at that stride, I look at the way
26:37
Speaker 1: they run across the middle mic and are we looking
26:40
Speaker 1: at what DK can be? But Julio is a guy
26:42
Speaker 1: you gotta pay attention to, right, Oh, without question? I
26:44
Speaker 1: mean I think it's pretty it's pretty a consensus I
26:47
Speaker 1: think across the league that Julio is the number one receiver.
26:50
Speaker 1: I think the next I mean, I shouldn't take an
26:52
Speaker 1: sence he's at least one or two. Right, Hopkins is
26:55
Speaker 1: maybe in there, but like he Yeah, we know what
26:57
Speaker 1: he can do. He's literally everything on their team. And
26:59
Speaker 1: I should to put this in the matchups as well,
27:01
Speaker 1: not only Julio, but can't Calvin Ridley. He had sixty
27:05
Speaker 1: three receptions, added eight hundred and sixty six yards and
27:07
Speaker 1: seven touds. So those dudes with Matt Ryan, that's that's
27:10
Speaker 1: what they're gonna if we're gonna win this game. It's
27:13
Speaker 1: stopping those guys. It's our secondary matching up. And hey,
27:17
Speaker 1: you don't get an easy slouch week one. You're going
27:20
Speaker 1: from the jump. Oh no, you're gonna get tested. This
27:23
Speaker 1: was the third number three passing team in the NFL
27:26
Speaker 1: last year, number five in total yards, so you're gonna
27:29
Speaker 1: get tested early, especially throwing the football. Now, the other
27:32
Speaker 1: side of this thing is their run game. Their run
27:35
Speaker 1: game was horrible last year. They're the third to last
27:38
Speaker 1: in the NFL, average about eighty five yards a game.
27:40
Speaker 1: The vouch of Freeman was there. They had to make
27:42
Speaker 1: a move, and what do they do. They go and
27:45
Speaker 1: get Todd Gurley, a guy who had an off year,
27:47
Speaker 1: probably has some the issues. We're not quite clear on that.
27:50
Speaker 1: We think it was, but they're not really talking too
27:52
Speaker 1: much about it. Eight hundred and fifty seven yards last year,
27:55
Speaker 1: twelve touchdowns. That's surprised, man. I didn't realize the dude
27:57
Speaker 1: had twelve touchdowns last year. It was sneaky. What about
28:01
Speaker 1: this guy is going to make this team special? Well,
28:06
Speaker 1: I mean they didn't have like you've mentioned, they didn't
28:08
Speaker 1: have a run game last year. And in my opinion,
28:11
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley is still extremely talented. It is still one
28:14
Speaker 1: of the premier running backs in this league. I mean
28:16
Speaker 1: outside of his rushing yards, he had thirty one catches
28:18
Speaker 1: two hundred seven yards to ts in the past game.
28:21
Speaker 1: And if you look at the Rams twenty seventeen and
28:23
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, what that man can do. I mean, he's scary,
28:26
Speaker 1: gets the ball in his hands, He's scared in the
28:28
Speaker 1: open field. He's a matchup nightmare. You get him in
28:30
Speaker 1: the past game in the red zone, it is tough.
28:33
Speaker 1: I think he is still elite. Like you mentioned, we
28:35
Speaker 1: don't really know about Tania. I think that played a role,
28:37
Speaker 1: a factor in his time with the Rams. And why
28:39
Speaker 1: we didn't see him there, I don't really know. But
28:42
Speaker 1: if that man is healthy, he is a matchup. He's
28:44
Speaker 1: gonna be matchup nightmare. He hard on our linebackers. He
28:47
Speaker 1: can be hard on Bruce kJ Bobby Brooks, Barton, whoever's
28:50
Speaker 1: out there. So if he if he's healthy, he is
28:52
Speaker 1: still one of the best backs in the league. Yeah,
28:55
Speaker 1: and no, no disrespect to DeVonta Freema. I mean he
28:57
Speaker 1: had a decent year. Six some of yards are rushing
29:00
Speaker 1: four hundred yards, receiving over a thousand total of yards.
29:02
Speaker 1: But he's not the back that this team needs because
29:05
Speaker 1: they are a play action team. They're kind of like
29:07
Speaker 1: the Seahawks when you look at him. They love some
29:09
Speaker 1: play action pass. And if you're not going to be
29:11
Speaker 1: able to run the ball in between the tackles and
29:12
Speaker 1: suckle those linebackers, the plays in pass because that's that
29:15
Speaker 1: much tough. Okay, so now now you gotta do what
29:18
Speaker 1: Dante Fowler first, Dwayne Brown and Brandon Shell. Dante, this
29:22
Speaker 1: dude wasn't a Pro bowler last year. Eleven and a
29:24
Speaker 1: half sacks and he did not get to the Pro Bowl.
29:26
Speaker 1: Actually came from the LA RAM Like, what is it
29:28
Speaker 1: and what do you see in this guy? Well? I
29:30
Speaker 1: just see a motor man. I just see a guy
29:32
Speaker 1: that does not stop and he's he's good with his hands,
29:35
Speaker 1: he's quick, he comes after, he comes hard off the edge.
29:37
Speaker 1: I mean the guy had some forced fumbles. He six
29:40
Speaker 1: passes defendant, so he's getting his arms up. He fifty
29:43
Speaker 1: eight tackles and what touchdown? Eleven sacks? Bump, he he
29:46
Speaker 1: goes to Pro Bowl? No Pro Bowl? I mean that's criminal,
29:50
Speaker 1: that's criminal. But no, I mean, obviously Dwayne Brown is
29:54
Speaker 1: as best as they come. And Brandon Chell step in
29:56
Speaker 1: a position where he was incredibly consistent with the Jets
29:58
Speaker 1: last year. Doesn't that get penalties? Uh? Peat and John
30:02
Speaker 1: and everyone loved what he did with the Jets. But
30:04
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a big thing. That's a that's a
30:05
Speaker 1: dynamic pass rusher right there, one of the best in
30:07
Speaker 1: the league, and they're gonna have their handsful from the jump. Yeah,
30:10
Speaker 1: that was the guy I was hoping the Hawks were
30:12
Speaker 1: looking at this offseason. I'm sure they did their research,
30:15
Speaker 1: but just didn't pull the trigger. Another guy they need
30:17
Speaker 1: to watch out for is Grady Jared seven a half
30:19
Speaker 1: sacked and he went to the Pro ball so you know, numbers,
30:23
Speaker 1: numbers are kind of skewed. I guess when you look
30:25
Speaker 1: at the two but keadle baller, he's a guy that
30:28
Speaker 1: needs to needs to be They need to pay attention
30:31
Speaker 1: to this young man. Yeah, I think. And that's that's
30:33
Speaker 1: the thing you mentioned earlier. We're talking about the offensive
30:35
Speaker 1: line and it's keeping Russell Wilson up right. He's been
30:38
Speaker 1: sacked too many times the last couple of years and
30:40
Speaker 1: we just need to keep people off our potential hopefully
30:44
Speaker 1: MVP quarterback and it's gonna start by checking the edges
30:46
Speaker 1: with Fowler. All right, another matchup DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett,
30:51
Speaker 1: and I want to say in the rest of the
30:53
Speaker 1: gang and the rest of the game, because they're deep
30:54
Speaker 1: at that receiver spot versus the kid at a Clemson
30:58
Speaker 1: A J. Perrell. This guy is a special type of dB.
31:05
Speaker 1: All's around the football, he plays with he plays with
31:07
Speaker 1: an SEC swag. But he's in the acc you know,
31:11
Speaker 1: he's coached by by Debom. Anybody coming out of Clemson
31:15
Speaker 1: in the first round you gotta pay attention to, and
31:17
Speaker 1: they're gonna He's gonna get tested early. Now, it's a
31:19
Speaker 1: matchup we gotta pay attention to. But Dk've been here
31:22
Speaker 1: a lot. It's been here. He's the new guy on
31:24
Speaker 1: the block, and I hope they go after him. You
31:26
Speaker 1: gotta test them early, right, Oh, absolutely. And when you
31:29
Speaker 1: have a quarterback who throws, without question, the best deep
31:32
Speaker 1: ball in the NFL, I look for that early. I
31:34
Speaker 1: look for an early play. Actually, didn't get your feet
31:36
Speaker 1: wet and attack him early. I mean, you're you're a
31:39
Speaker 1: rookie coming into your first game. There's no fans in
31:42
Speaker 1: the stands. It's just a weird kind of environment. You're
31:45
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. You haven't had any preseason,
31:47
Speaker 1: You've had a couple of mount games. It's not the
31:49
Speaker 1: same thing. So yeah, i'd look for a shott he
31:51
Speaker 1: those guys to test them early, test them early, and
31:54
Speaker 1: test them often. All right, So now the path to victory?
31:58
Speaker 1: What do these guys need to do to be successful
32:02
Speaker 1: in the ATL on Sunday? The first one to shake
32:05
Speaker 1: off the rust? Right, it's been a long time since
32:07
Speaker 1: anyone who's played a real football games. You gotta shake
32:09
Speaker 1: off the rust and you got to stimulate yourself because
32:12
Speaker 1: there is no crowd, right, there is there is no
32:15
Speaker 1: one you can bounce energy off of. It. It's you
32:17
Speaker 1: and your boys going to atl to get a job done.
32:20
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. And it's and I think that's
32:22
Speaker 1: that's that's number one. It's like, where do you bring
32:24
Speaker 1: your energy from? We know these are professionals, we know
32:26
Speaker 1: these are grown men. And if you're talking to Dave Wyman,
32:28
Speaker 1: he will tell you no one comes out flat. They're
32:30
Speaker 1: all professional blah blah blah. Ye. I'll pay to do
32:32
Speaker 1: a job. But this is unpresidented man, this is something
32:35
Speaker 1: that has never been done before, So it's about who
32:38
Speaker 1: can bring the energy from the jump and it's within
32:40
Speaker 1: you know. You know, the atmosphere is kind of gonna
32:43
Speaker 1: be like jav football on a Wednesday. I mean, it's like, Yep,
32:47
Speaker 1: your boys are hyped, but it's just y'all. You know.
32:50
Speaker 1: You might have you might have fifteen people in the
32:53
Speaker 1: stands here in every comment or anything that goes on,
32:56
Speaker 1: But this is JAV football atmosphere with NFL dudes out there,
33:01
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be interesting. Another path of victory is tackle.
33:05
Speaker 1: Other than the mob games, this is the first time
33:07
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to wrap those up and take
33:09
Speaker 1: them to the ground and not worry about their health
33:12
Speaker 1: or their well being. They're gonna be able to let
33:14
Speaker 1: loose and because of that, there are gonna be mistakes.
33:17
Speaker 1: I would expect to see mistackles. I would expect to
33:19
Speaker 1: see a little bit of sloppy play in the beginning,
33:23
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I think they'll
33:25
Speaker 1: home back in and figure out how to do this
33:27
Speaker 1: football thing. They've done their whole lives. Yeah, And I
33:29
Speaker 1: think it's really helpful for the Seahawks, especially that they
33:31
Speaker 1: don't really tackle that much in practice. Anyway. To begin
33:34
Speaker 1: with the way they do it, they usually thud tempo.
33:37
Speaker 1: They only really had one live portion of the second
33:40
Speaker 1: mod game where the starting defense is actually tackling the ground.
33:44
Speaker 1: I'm not as worried about them. What I am concerned
33:46
Speaker 1: about a special team's bump when you haven't had a
33:49
Speaker 1: live rap running down on kickoff, your assignment on kick return.
33:52
Speaker 1: The ones that really kind of scare you too are
33:54
Speaker 1: pat and field goal and then play because those are
33:58
Speaker 1: big players. You get a block, kid, can you get?
34:00
Speaker 1: That changes the game. So seeing how they come out
34:03
Speaker 1: on special teams. But I know Brian Snider's gonna have
34:06
Speaker 1: those boys ready. Great point. They have not done live
34:10
Speaker 1: reps on special teams. I think the one that scares
34:12
Speaker 1: me the most is kickoff returns because on the kick
34:17
Speaker 1: cover team, it's all about your lanes. Stay in your lanes.
34:19
Speaker 1: Stay in your lanes. You're gonna that's like the biggest
34:22
Speaker 1: coaching point of all kickcover teams. Stay in your lane,
34:25
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have some rookies out there. You're gonna
34:27
Speaker 1: have some some bubble guys, guys who are who barely
34:30
Speaker 1: made the team, so they might not be as experienced.
34:32
Speaker 1: But you know what. That's why you do drills, and
34:35
Speaker 1: that's why you show up every day. So hopefully it
34:37
Speaker 1: translates another path of victory. Contained Julio. Dude had ten
34:41
Speaker 1: catches one hundred fifty four yards last time these two
34:44
Speaker 1: guys together. You know, I'm okay with one hundred, just
34:47
Speaker 1: not one hundred and fifty four. Julio is gonna eat right.
34:49
Speaker 1: It's Julio, Like you said, he's number one and number
34:52
Speaker 1: two best receiver in the league. You gotta contain him.
34:54
Speaker 1: It's containing him. What is containing him to you? What
34:56
Speaker 1: does that mean? I mean containing him. He can't go
34:59
Speaker 1: off for twelve for one eighty and two toads or
35:02
Speaker 1: two hundred. I think he's gonna if he gets six,
35:05
Speaker 1: seven receptions eighty nine yards, you know, and maybe it's
35:08
Speaker 1: just one big play. Obviously you don't want to have
35:10
Speaker 1: any explosives. But you keep him under a hundred or
35:12
Speaker 1: even right around one hundred, no more than one touchdown.
35:16
Speaker 1: I think you've done your job. Yeah, I agree, I agree, Yeah,
35:19
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's Julio. Let's just be he's gonna
35:24
Speaker 1: get hit. Another path to victory. Let Jamal Adams be great,
35:28
Speaker 1: use him all over the field. And I love that idea.
35:31
Speaker 1: The guy had was six and a half sack last year,
35:33
Speaker 1: six and a half sack. He's good in his own
35:36
Speaker 1: he's good in the box. You just got this brand
35:40
Speaker 1: new piece of equipment, all right, don't be shy, don't
35:44
Speaker 1: be scared to get a dirty It wants to get dirty.
35:46
Speaker 1: It wants to be used. Let the dog off the
35:48
Speaker 1: leash and let him eat. Let's go, man, I'm so excited.
35:51
Speaker 1: That's my number one thing that I'm most looking forward
35:53
Speaker 1: to on Sunday's watching him run wild all over the field.
35:56
Speaker 1: And the best thing about Jamal Adams is there will
35:59
Speaker 1: be no confused using as to who made the play
36:02
Speaker 1: if it's him. I promise you you will feel that
36:04
Speaker 1: in your living room, promise you. So you're saying he's
36:09
Speaker 1: gonna let everybody now, he gonna let them know. Buff,
36:11
Speaker 1: I'm excited for it. I'm all here for it. Doug.
36:14
Speaker 1: Let's go another pack of victory. Run the ball, convert
36:18
Speaker 1: on third down. Now we all know that they're gonna
36:20
Speaker 1: run the ball, right, you gotta that's that's what that's
36:22
Speaker 1: what this team is built to do, at least initially,
36:24
Speaker 1: is to run the football, and you have to when
36:27
Speaker 1: you got Chris Carson, Carlos High, and let's not forget
36:30
Speaker 1: DJ have. I don't think we've mentioned DJ enough during
36:33
Speaker 1: this this whole deal. I don't think you've missed them
36:35
Speaker 1: at all. But this is a rookie who's getting rest
36:39
Speaker 1: with the one who was a receiver at the University
36:42
Speaker 1: of Miami. So I expect him to be using the
36:44
Speaker 1: screen games and swings and all that stuff. You have
36:46
Speaker 1: to run the football because you get your two dogs
36:48
Speaker 1: back there and Carlos High and Chris Carson, but you
36:51
Speaker 1: also have a DJ Dallas. Well. I feel like they're
36:54
Speaker 1: gonna try to get at least one or two touches earlier. Yeah,
36:56
Speaker 1: you want to get the rookie get his feet wet
36:58
Speaker 1: in the NFL and get going. And as Roberts would
37:00
Speaker 1: always say, tell us on the pregame say all the time,
37:02
Speaker 1: is he want to start running the ball because it
37:04
Speaker 1: gets the offensive line ready to go. You want to
37:06
Speaker 1: be the aggressor, you want to come out, You want
37:07
Speaker 1: to go hit somebody. You want Dayne Brown to hit somebody.
37:10
Speaker 1: You want these guys to fire off and hit somebody.
37:11
Speaker 1: You start running the ball, it helps open up the
37:14
Speaker 1: play action and then it helps us convert on third
37:16
Speaker 1: down for sure. All right, told us you hurt that
37:19
Speaker 1: we must run the ball to open up to let
37:22
Speaker 1: him cook. You don't just cook, right, You gotta preppy.
37:25
Speaker 1: You gotta cut your your vegetables. You on me, you
37:27
Speaker 1: gotta marinate the meat. You don't just go out the lass.
37:30
Speaker 1: Will not least beat the team you're supposed to beat.
37:32
Speaker 1: They're supposed to beat these guys, right, absolutely, I mean
37:35
Speaker 1: it's the Seahawks are a team that I think has deep,
37:39
Speaker 1: deep playoff aspirations, if not the big Game. So this
37:43
Speaker 1: is a game where you have to come out on
37:44
Speaker 1: the road and show the league and show everyone what
37:46
Speaker 1: you're about, and start from week one. So they're supposed
37:49
Speaker 1: to win, even though they've only won one game on
37:53
Speaker 1: the road home opener under Peak Carroll time difference doesn't matter.
37:57
Speaker 1: I'm play Devil's advocate. I got I gotta throw of that.
37:59
Speaker 1: Just a one went on the road under Pete home
38:01
Speaker 1: opener time different that we're seven and one on the
38:04
Speaker 1: role last year. But even with all that, no crowd
38:07
Speaker 1: sildas are going to be different, protocols are different. There's
38:10
Speaker 1: still there's no doubt they're supposed to win this ball game.
38:13
Speaker 1: I said what I said, Bump, I said what I said. No,
38:17
Speaker 1: I honestly, I think I think they should be favored.
38:19
Speaker 1: I think for good reason. We're coming off. We're a
38:21
Speaker 1: playoff team. They were seven to nine last year. They
38:23
Speaker 1: got the tools, they got the talent. Our defense is
38:25
Speaker 1: so much improved, and hey we got number three man.
38:27
Speaker 1: Let's get it done. Get her done, Get her done.
38:31
Speaker 1: Number three and number boys are going down to the
38:33
Speaker 1: atl this Sunday. It is a ten am start. To
38:38
Speaker 1: make sure you wake up early, you get your lineup
38:41
Speaker 1: set up for fantasy, you get your favorite seat, and
38:44
Speaker 1: enjoyed it because we almost didn't have this season. It
38:47
Speaker 1: looked like for a minute this wasn't going to happen.
38:50
Speaker 1: So every game, every snap, don't take it for granted.
38:54
Speaker 1: Live it up, love it. It's been real, folks. Two