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Speaker 1: You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus. After ten yard line, second to day three
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Speaker 1: wide receivers now in motion as Bumpas left to right,
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Speaker 1: Julius Jones a single setback Matt pump Facks looking at
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Speaker 1: the goal line, he throws it into the end zone. Touchdown,
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Speaker 1: Saint Hawks. It's Michael Bumpas with a diving catching the
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Speaker 1: end zone. Our ten yard touchdown reception for Bumpas and
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Speaker 1: 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. I'm
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Speaker 1: Michael bump Is. He is Nasaid Choby, and this is
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Speaker 1: Hog Talk Preview week three that Cowboys are coming to town.
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Speaker 1: But before we dive into that, injury updates with Nasad Choby, Well, thanks,
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Speaker 1: bump I wish I had better news, but this injury
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Speaker 1: update is definitely starting on a somber note. He Carroll
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Speaker 1: stepped up to the podium this week and provided updates
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Speaker 1: on Bruce Irvin, Marquis Blair, and Philip Dorset. Right off
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Speaker 1: the top. Both Bruce and Marquise are gonna have to
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Speaker 1: have surgery, and so that means that they will be
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Speaker 1: done for the season, and which is really a big blow,
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Speaker 1: you know, and I know, and a lot of teams
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Speaker 1: lost players this weekend. You know, we certainly felt it
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Speaker 1: with both those guys. Both those guys have a lot
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Speaker 1: to offer your team in their attitude and approach and
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Speaker 1: style of play, and so it'll be difficult to replace
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Speaker 1: those guys. Philip doors Set, we're looking to figure out
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Speaker 1: how to how to work this out. We need to
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Speaker 1: give him a break to make sure that his foot
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Speaker 1: is is healed and back. We know he tried to
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Speaker 1: get back this week to play in this pass game
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Speaker 1: and couldn't do it. So we have to give him
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Speaker 1: more time than that, and we have to consider what
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Speaker 1: we're doing with that. Philip is not part of this
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Speaker 1: game plan coming up. We're going to rest him for sure.
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Speaker 1: Both Irvin and Blair have been placed on IR officially.
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Speaker 1: In the Seahawks have called up cornerback Lyndon Stevens and
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Speaker 1: defensive tackle Anthony Rush to take their places on the
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Speaker 1: active roster. Phil door Set has also been placed on IR,
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Speaker 1: leaving one open roster spot to be filled before Sunday's game. Lastly,
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Speaker 1: head go to Pete Carroll gave us. The latest on
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Speaker 1: Rashim Green Rashim is he's still kind of in the
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Speaker 1: same mode. We haven't turned the corner yet. We'll have
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Speaker 1: to see as this week goes on if he improves
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Speaker 1: enough where he'll be able to play this week. He's
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Speaker 1: not feeling that bad, but he's still got a little
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Speaker 1: something going on that we got to wait through it
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Speaker 1: and see if which day it turns, and so we
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Speaker 1: won't know until later in the week. But he hasn't
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Speaker 1: been cleared yet for this week, so we'll see what happens,
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Speaker 1: all right. The Hawks got it done last week and
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Speaker 1: a thriller beat the Pats. Came down to the one
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Speaker 1: yard line. LJ. Collier makes a play on Cam Newton
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Speaker 1: to seal the deal. But now we got to focus
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Speaker 1: on the Cowboys. Nas Who's next? Who's next? Who's next? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Cowboys are coming into town. They're one and one. They
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Speaker 1: lost to the Rams in week one. They bounced back
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Speaker 1: and beat the Atlanta Falcons in a thriller. Thriller. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's throw a funny stat out there. I mean that
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Speaker 1: Falcons are the first team to lose when they're up
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Speaker 1: what with three or four turnovers. I don't know the specifics,
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Speaker 1: but they're the first team to do what they did
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Speaker 1: out of four hundred and forty tries. And that's never good, right. No,
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Speaker 1: it was something like scoring thirty nine points in all
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Speaker 1: those yards and winning to turnover battle and all of
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Speaker 1: that stuff, and to lose like in that fashion, Man,
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Speaker 1: that was bone crushing. I feel for those boys down
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta, man, Phil form in Atlanta. But Dak Prescott
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Speaker 1: did his thing. Thirty four for forty seven four to
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Speaker 1: fifty yards, one touchdown, three rushing touchdowns. He is the
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Speaker 1: first person in NFL history to throw for over four
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Speaker 1: hundred yards and have three rushing touchdowns. That looks like
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Speaker 1: a running back who played quarterbacks stating right there, that's
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Speaker 1: what that's what we saw. To Dak Prescott, Well, he's
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Speaker 1: putting up the numbers, man, and let me tell you something,
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Speaker 1: he is campaigning to pay the man. He is a
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Speaker 1: He is the real deal. Honestly, like you said, four
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Speaker 1: hundred fifty yards throwing the ball, three rushing touchdowns. Daka
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Speaker 1: is the real deal, and he just can do it
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Speaker 1: in every single form or fashion. He's legit, he's tough
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Speaker 1: to tackle, and it's gonna be It's gonna be a
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Speaker 1: bear for the Seahawks defense this week. He's tough to tackle,
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Speaker 1: and I'm watching film and he's standing in the pocket
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Speaker 1: and taking some hits. I mean, they've had five or
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Speaker 1: six just really good hits on Dak Prescott last game.
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Speaker 1: And he's standing in there and he's making plays, and
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Speaker 1: we can't forget about Ezekiel Elliott. Twenty two carries eighty
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Speaker 1: nine yards, one touchdown. Not a great game, but a
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Speaker 1: solid game by Ezekiel Elliott. And just like the Hawks,
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Speaker 1: I guess the previous Hawks, the Dallas Cowboys set everything
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Speaker 1: up with the run, especially when you have an old
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Speaker 1: line like they have and a guy like Elliott in
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Speaker 1: the backfield. Absolutely, and even it doesn't really matter who's
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Speaker 1: playing offensive line for the Cowboys. Honestly, they were missing.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that in man out, but they're missing.
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Speaker 1: They're starting left Pro Bowl tackle. But they still find
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Speaker 1: ways to get it done. They're one of the most
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Speaker 1: talented groups out there. And Zekei Elliott is just I mean,
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Speaker 1: speaks for itself. Man. The guy's been doing it since
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Speaker 1: he was at Ohio State. A very workman's like game.
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Speaker 1: Twenty two carries eighty nine yards, didn't pop, didn't go crazy,
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Speaker 1: but still very efficient and helping Dak throw for all
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Speaker 1: those yards. Did you see his new tattoo? I did it?
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Speaker 1: Says feed or he was on his stomach? Feed right?
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Speaker 1: Eat me, man, need it? Did I see the cereal box?
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Speaker 1: Eat him? That's a lot of pressure. You gotta stay
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Speaker 1: in shape the rest of your life. You get a
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Speaker 1: stomach tattoo. I mean, that's that's a bold that's bold
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Speaker 1: right there. It is a bold decision. Luckily he's in
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Speaker 1: his twenties, so it's good for now. Hit me back
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Speaker 1: in twenty years and see it still looks good. It's
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Speaker 1: twenty years. Win tie your thirty four. Like me, man,
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Speaker 1: I gotta have to have to put the beer down
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Speaker 1: and pick up the trulyes. That's my situation asolutely. All right,
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Speaker 1: here we go, ceedee Lamb. The rookie caught six passes
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Speaker 1: for one hundred and six yards. I like this kid.
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Speaker 1: He works the slot. There's a play that he had
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Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Falcons where he's the bender. It's when
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Speaker 1: you're in the transformation, you're the number three receiver closest
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Speaker 1: to the tackle. When you are that number three receiver
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Speaker 1: and you got verticals, you can bend your route behind
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Speaker 1: the linebackers. That's what he did. The run after the
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Speaker 1: catch is awesome. I like this, dude, what do you
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Speaker 1: see out of him? Well, like you said, he's just
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Speaker 1: explosive and he's a workhorse man. He was a dog
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Speaker 1: in college and he's showing. He had a decent day.
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Speaker 1: I think you have like six catches for like fifty
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Speaker 1: nine yards in week one, but last week he really
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Speaker 1: showed that he's going to be a part of this
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Speaker 1: offense moving forward. All right. Now, the story of the
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Speaker 1: game for the Cowboys was a tale of two halves. Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is the drive chart in the first half, first possession, punt,
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Speaker 1: second fumble, third fumble or out on downs, fifth fumble,
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Speaker 1: and then they got things going in the second half.
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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott didn't account for any touchdowns in the first half.
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Speaker 1: Second half, he accounted for four touchdowns. Somehow, some way,
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Speaker 1: they got this thing going. Is it more of Dallas
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Speaker 1: being nice or is it more Atlanta Falcons just being
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons or the Atlanta fffords is what I
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Speaker 1: heard sounds during the week. It's it's hard to tell, honestly,
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's no You're not gonna win football games
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Speaker 1: for the most part if you start the game punt, fumble, fumble, downs, fumble.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that is probably one of the worst starts
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen in an NFL football game. So it's
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Speaker 1: got to be a little both. I mean, I'm starting
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Speaker 1: to lean a little bit on the Falcons just what
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Speaker 1: we've seen in them so far this season. But then again,
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Speaker 1: as we're talking about, these cowboys are super talented, they
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Speaker 1: got weapons on offense, and then you flip to the
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Speaker 1: second half, touchdown, field goal, touchdown, touchdown downs, touchdown, touchdown,
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Speaker 1: field goal. I mean, that is some good production right there, man,
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Speaker 1: good production to say the least. Now, they outscore the
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Speaker 1: Falcons thirty to ten in the second half and recovered
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Speaker 1: an onside kick like I've never seen it before. They
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Speaker 1: call it the watermelon kick. You just put the ball
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Speaker 1: on the ground, you kick it, it starts to spin.
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Speaker 1: It was almost like the spin had the Atlanta Falcons hypnotized,
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Speaker 1: they were like, do we jump on the football, Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: You can touch the ball within the first ten yards.
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Speaker 1: The kicking team cannot touch the ball within ten yards.
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Speaker 1: Somebody didn't do their homework. Do you put that on
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Speaker 1: the special teams coach on the headcast on the players
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Speaker 1: who takes this blame? That just hurts my head. And
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Speaker 1: while I think about who's taking the blame, let's hear
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Speaker 1: what it sounded like down in Atlanta. So it's a
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Speaker 1: two point game with one forty nine to go. Gotta
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Speaker 1: be careful this little dribbler down the middle. Now, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and the ball is recovered by Dallas. The ball spun around,
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Speaker 1: Atlanta looked at it, it rolled across and Dallas got it.
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Speaker 1: You're rolling on the fielders of the team league by Dallas.
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Speaker 1: He found it. How in the world Dave Zakis has
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Speaker 1: got to dive on the football. Here's the deal, bump.
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Speaker 1: So initially you always want to just go after the
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Speaker 1: special team's coach, right, yep. But man, at some point
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Speaker 1: you're an NFL football player, you gotta make a play
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Speaker 1: like you know the rules. Because here's the thing, because
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Speaker 1: you know, all week long, special team coaches, every Special
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Speaker 1: teams meetings, every single morning, and then come towards the
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Speaker 1: end of week, come Friday Saturday, they go into situations
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Speaker 1: they're saying what happens when this happens, especially on the
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Speaker 1: hands team, right, so you have to know that that
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Speaker 1: was covered at some point in the week. I think
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Speaker 1: honestly the front line just kind of brain farted. But
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you're the coaching staff,
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Speaker 1: so you got to be held accountable. But man, and
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Speaker 1: even going back into like the high school days, Man,
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Speaker 1: when I was coaching special teams, telling kids you might
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Speaker 1: go over something right before the play. If this happens,
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Speaker 1: you need to do this, and sometimes it doesn't happen,
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Speaker 1: but man, that just, oh god, that just hurts my heart. Man,
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Speaker 1: watching that, I feel bad for that special team's coach.
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Speaker 1: But he's gonna get all that blame. He's gonna get it.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna say he did not relay that message effectively
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Speaker 1: to where his players were receptive and took the coaching.
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Speaker 1: For some reason, they did not take that coaching. I
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Speaker 1: do not want to believe that they did not go
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Speaker 1: over that scenario. That is basic stuff. I was a
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Speaker 1: high school head coach. If that happened, I'm livid. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's it's it looked. It just looked like JV football.
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Speaker 1: It just looked like a bunch of ninth graders who
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Speaker 1: aren't really gonna play varsity football, were on the field
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Speaker 1: and didn't know what the heck they would do. Well.
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Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of like in basketball, like
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Speaker 1: when you start a second half and then teams kind
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Speaker 1: of forget which way they're going. That's kind of what
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Speaker 1: it felt like, because the ball was just sitting there,
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Speaker 1: and it's been one thing if it was boom boom,
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Speaker 1: but the ball just spun and spun and spun. But
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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, and it was painful. And then unfortunately
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Speaker 1: after that, it's set up this game winner. Forty six
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Speaker 1: for the win, no time out, good snap, good hold,
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Speaker 1: forty six yards, Yes, sir, kiss that pig. The final
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Speaker 1: score dabblished forty a lot of thirty nine. Oh, heartbreak hotel,
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Speaker 1: art break hotel. All Right, we're gonna we're gonna move
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Speaker 1: on from the Falcons. They're they're they're dealing with enough. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the history between the Seattle Seahawks and
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. No, your history, so bump. Normally I would
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Speaker 1: come out here, I'd have a bunch of clips to
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Speaker 1: fire you up about the last time we played this team,
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Speaker 1: because hopefully it was a good result. Unfortunately, you and
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Speaker 1: we were both there in Dallas the last time the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks played. Unfortunately, the last meeting was a heartbreaking twenty
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Speaker 1: four to twenty two wild card defeat during the twenty
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Speaker 1: eighteen season. I was really disappointing because that team went
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Speaker 1: through so much and we had an amazing time in Dallas.
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Speaker 1: We were right there, just couldn't quite get it done.
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Speaker 1: So unfortunately last meeting didn't go so hot. But look
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Speaker 1: at the series record. Dallas lead to series eleven and nine.
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Speaker 1: But prior to that, the Seahawks won earlier in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four thirteen here at Central Link Field. So that
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Speaker 1: was the last time these two teams matched up in Seattle.
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Speaker 1: And it's gonna be a battle. I mean it was
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Speaker 1: a battle at the AT and T Stadium when we
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Speaker 1: went a couple of years ago. It was gonna be
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Speaker 1: a battle this time. If both teams are playing at
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Speaker 1: a high level offense, high level offensively right now. Defensively,
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Speaker 1: there are some things that they need to fix. So
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Speaker 1: my I'm anticipating a shootout when it comes to Seahawks
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Speaker 1: versus Dallas. I'm gonna say thirty plus points each team.
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Speaker 1: But I'll say that prediction for the Sunday. Uh yeah,
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Speaker 1: you need all the help predicting scores, you know, man,
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Speaker 1: I'm so good at it. Something to be desired for you. Bump.
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Speaker 1: All right, now, let's talk about the NFC West. What's
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Speaker 1: the word in the West? And the Seahawks were the
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Speaker 1: NFC West champs? Again, what's the word in the West? Totally?
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Speaker 1: What's the word in the West? I'll tell you what
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Speaker 1: the word is. Mass Als two and Cardinals two and o,
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Speaker 1: Rams two and o and the Niners are at the
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Speaker 1: bottom of the barrel at one and one. Is this
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Speaker 1: the type of star you would have predicted for the
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Speaker 1: nc West? Um? Honestly, I thought the division was gonna
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Speaker 1: be really good. I did. But this six and o
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Speaker 1: against the rest of the league. I mean, we talked
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Speaker 1: about all preseason thinking that this was going to be
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Speaker 1: one of the best divisions in football. But I think
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Speaker 1: what made me fully believe that one hundred percent is
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals. The Cardinals this year are going to be
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Speaker 1: a problem. Yes, they started two and oh we might
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Speaker 1: be getting ahead of ourselves. But Kyler merley Man in
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Speaker 1: his second year, is the real deal. He's really fun
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Speaker 1: to watch momp It's video game stuff. He just has
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Speaker 1: another gear. And what's crazy, he's fast. When you see
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Speaker 1: fast guys, you look at their stride lanes, right, it
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Speaker 1: seems like he just got those those little stride lanes.
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Speaker 1: But for some reason he gets the most out of it.
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Speaker 1: And it's the way he throws the football. It's just
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Speaker 1: a flick of the wrist. I was talking to Paul
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Speaker 1: Moyer last week. When you watch Cam throw, everything's into
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Speaker 1: that throw. His whole body is lower body's upper body.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on. When Kyler Murray throws a football.
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Speaker 1: It's just a little flick of the wrist. It's a
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Speaker 1: little baseball motion. That's why he was gonna get paid
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Speaker 1: what four million to go play for the Athletics back
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Speaker 1: in the day. But I'm with you, Kylin Murray looks great.
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Speaker 1: He's got DeAndre Hopkins and the Rams got a nice
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Speaker 1: little run game going right now. I'm impressed with their
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Speaker 1: run game. They're not it's not cute. They're not getting
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Speaker 1: outside the tackles. They're not doing all this fancy stuff.
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Speaker 1: They're like, look, here's a league, here's a trap, here's
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Speaker 1: a power. They're getting back to what kind of made
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Speaker 1: them great. A couple of years ago, establishing the run
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Speaker 1: game first. Yeah, and honestly the Rams first of all
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Speaker 1: from a Seahawks standpoint, the Rams have always given our
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Speaker 1: football team trouble, whether they were the Jeff Fisher Rams,
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Speaker 1: whoever's coaching, whevers going down there, and they give us problems. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: Sean McVay is a great head coach. Took him the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl two years ago. But yeah, the Rams are
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Speaker 1: still good and Jared Goff is still throwing the ball
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Speaker 1: while he threw for two hundred and sixty seven yards
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Speaker 1: and three tids last week. So they're two and out
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Speaker 1: and they beat the Dallas Cowboys in Week one? Are
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Speaker 1: you a golf believer? Now? We've been hard on this man.
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Speaker 1: We've been hard on him. You believing in him now?
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Speaker 1: The jury is still out for me. Don't get me wrong.
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Speaker 1: He's a great athlete. He can throw the pill. It's
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Speaker 1: just kind of there's just so much I feel that
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Speaker 1: that's credited to Sean mcvagh just because he's such an
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Speaker 1: offensive mastermind, and he's in his headset till fifteen seconds
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Speaker 1: before the play granted Goss stall us to go out
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Speaker 1: there and make throws. But when those Rams are rolling
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Speaker 1: it's because of everything else around him. So I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he can't be one of the better
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL. I just still I need to
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Speaker 1: see more. The jury is still out for me. Jury still?
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Speaker 1: Um Okay, Now let's talk about these four nine ers. Man.
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Speaker 1: They're having a tough year. Yes, they beat the Jets
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Speaker 1: thirty one to thirteen last week. But Bolsa's out what
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Speaker 1: an Aco? Solomon's out with an Aco, Jimmy g High
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Speaker 1: ankle sprain, most Art mco George Kila had a sprained
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Speaker 1: MCL the week before. Richard Sherman has a cab injury.
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Speaker 1: Demo Samuel has a Jones fractor like all their playmakers
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Speaker 1: are gone. Do you have any type of sympathy or
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Speaker 1: the Niners. Are you gonna be a cold hearted Seahawk
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Speaker 1: fan and show them no love? Well, here's the deal, man.
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Speaker 1: You never want to see people get hurt, right, I
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Speaker 1: never will ever root for any professional athlete at any
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Speaker 1: level or anyone else to get hurt. With that being said,
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Speaker 1: this is a National Football Week. It is what it is.
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Speaker 1: Every single team is gonna have to deal with injuries,
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Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to it just comes, and you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to deal with it when it comes. Do
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Speaker 1: you think the Niners felt bad for the Seahawks when
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Speaker 1: we lost Chris Carson, when we lost c J. Pro Chice,
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Speaker 1: when we lost all of our running backs, when we
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Speaker 1: lost Dwayne Brown, when we lost all these tackles, and
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Speaker 1: when we went into week sixteen of last Sea. No,
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Speaker 1: they didn't. Because the NFL, everyone gets paid to play,
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna strap him up in play. So the Niners,
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Speaker 1: holy smokes, they got they got some work to do,
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to do some soul searching and
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Speaker 1: it's gonna come at him quick. So we'll really see
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Speaker 1: how resilient that bunch is moving forward. So, in a
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Speaker 1: short answer, no, you have no s it is. It's
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Speaker 1: the league. I'm sorry, No, I don't. Hey, competition gotta compete,
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Speaker 1: all right. Next segment is our matchups. We're gonna call
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Speaker 1: the segment. Man up? Who is this mass? This? Man
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Speaker 1: up on Hawk Talk? Man up? You want to beat
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, you gotta win some matchups. And the first
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Speaker 1: matchup is Dak Prescott versus the Seahawk defense. Now, if
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Speaker 1: we're going off, the first couple of weeks. Off of
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Speaker 1: the defensive performance by the Hawks and the performance by
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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, we can go out and say that Dak
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Speaker 1: is gonna eat, He's gonna get his he's gonna throw
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Speaker 1: the ball for over three yards. Yeah. I mean he
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Speaker 1: is what he is, man. I mean we learned from
17:03
Speaker 1: Dak right when he first got to this football team.
17:06
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was here in Seattle in
17:09
Speaker 1: a preseason game in twenty sixteen where Tony Romo got hurt.
17:12
Speaker 1: Dak is thrown into the starting lineup and he took off.
17:15
Speaker 1: And he has been that good and that impressive since
17:19
Speaker 1: he took over. And right now he's playing at an
17:21
Speaker 1: incredibly high level. I won't say quite is to where
17:24
Speaker 1: Russell's at so far this year, but Dak is right
17:26
Speaker 1: behind him, right behind him. He has seven hundred and
17:29
Speaker 1: sixteen yards through the air so far this year. That
17:31
Speaker 1: is second in the league. Dad continues to play at
17:35
Speaker 1: a high level. And there's a reason why he wanted
17:38
Speaker 1: to hold out. There's a reason why he wanted his
17:40
Speaker 1: money because he feels like he is an elite quarterback
17:43
Speaker 1: and so far he has shown that. When I look
17:46
Speaker 1: at Dak Prescott, the thing that jumps out to me
17:49
Speaker 1: is his toughness. Now you heard about his offseason, lost
17:52
Speaker 1: a brother, trying to get paid. There's a lot of
17:55
Speaker 1: things that could affect his performers on the field. I
17:58
Speaker 1: see a guy who just shows up every single week.
18:00
Speaker 1: It makes have happened, and he surrounded with some talent.
18:03
Speaker 1: What jumps out to you, Well, he's just like you
18:06
Speaker 1: mentioned everything that he's been through this past year, he's
18:08
Speaker 1: just a leader. Man. He came out as a leader,
18:10
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, dealing with some mental health issues
18:13
Speaker 1: and just being being a leader for everyone across the country.
18:16
Speaker 1: People need to hear that that's okay. And he's doing
18:18
Speaker 1: that while dealing and playing the toughest position in sports.
18:23
Speaker 1: He's playing quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. Okay, So I
18:26
Speaker 1: mean then you see what he does on the field.
18:28
Speaker 1: He's just a leader, and I think he's taken a
18:29
Speaker 1: huge step this year and he's definitely someone wanted to
18:32
Speaker 1: be reckoned with all season for sure. The next matchup,
18:35
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson versus the Cowboys defense. Russells balling right now.
18:39
Speaker 1: The cleare MVP leader so far in the NFL. Russell
18:44
Speaker 1: has an eighty two point five percent completion percentage through
18:47
Speaker 1: two games, the highest through the first two games of
18:50
Speaker 1: the NFL season in history minimum for the attempts. This
18:55
Speaker 1: dude is playing at a level that we haven't really
18:58
Speaker 1: seen and he's starting to get that recognition and that
19:01
Speaker 1: love that we've been given to him since day one.
19:05
Speaker 1: Can this continue, as the question, Well, it's asking a
19:09
Speaker 1: lot for it to continue at this clip. All right.
19:11
Speaker 1: Let mean there's other we could talk to. Russell Wilson
19:13
Speaker 1: stats all day long. He's eight for eight in the
19:15
Speaker 1: red zone, eighty two r to five touchdowns. Okay, he's
19:18
Speaker 1: thrown nine touchdowns and according to Pro Football Focus, only
19:21
Speaker 1: five uncatchable passes balls that he's thrown away. He's leading
19:24
Speaker 1: the league in touchdown passes. I mean, there's a million
19:26
Speaker 1: different stats and he has come through in every which way.
19:30
Speaker 1: And because he has really just taking ownership of this offense,
19:34
Speaker 1: I expect him to continue to play at this high level.
19:38
Speaker 1: Maybe less touchdowns, maybe some of those numbers will come down,
19:41
Speaker 1: but how he's commanding this offense, I don't see that
19:43
Speaker 1: stopping anytime soon, because he's just too special. I'll put
19:46
Speaker 1: out a tweet the other day saying that Russell Wilson
19:48
Speaker 1: is the best quarterback in the league. And you know everyone,
19:50
Speaker 1: not everyone, but a lot of people, Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes. Well,
19:54
Speaker 1: Russell's doing some things that Patrick Mahomes hasn't done, at
19:57
Speaker 1: least not this year. Four touchdowns on passes thrown twenty
20:00
Speaker 1: plus yards down the field. No other quarterback has more
20:04
Speaker 1: than two. So I get it, Pat Mahomes baller, but
20:09
Speaker 1: Russell was just playing at a different level. The Cowboys
20:13
Speaker 1: gave up thirty nine points last week and only has
20:15
Speaker 1: two sacks on the season, So that tells me that
20:19
Speaker 1: that old line should be able to protect and that
20:21
Speaker 1: this offense should be able to continue what they've been doing.
20:26
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what happens and if DK in
20:30
Speaker 1: the game can keep this level play up. Oh, I definitely.
20:33
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to two And as you mentioned, the
20:35
Speaker 1: Cowboys only have two sacks on the season. Our offensive
20:38
Speaker 1: line last week's after the really the first quarter against Atlanta,
20:41
Speaker 1: they've really figured out in jail in terms of protection.
20:43
Speaker 1: Russell's had some really clean pockets and stuff like that.
20:46
Speaker 1: So I expect our offensive line to keep Russell upright
20:49
Speaker 1: and then him to continue to play how he's been
20:51
Speaker 1: playing last couple of weeks. What's the matchup you're looking
20:54
Speaker 1: at nas? What else? I mean the next one you get,
20:58
Speaker 1: you gotta look at Zeke. Man out to look at
21:00
Speaker 1: Zeke versus our front seven. Now it's obviously going every
21:05
Speaker 1: week you say you got to stop the run. Every
21:07
Speaker 1: football team wants to stop the run. So like they're like, oh,
21:09
Speaker 1: nice job, Nasa, it's a great matchup. You thought really
21:12
Speaker 1: hard on that one. No, but it is what it is. Man.
21:14
Speaker 1: It starts with him. So he's had forty four carries
21:16
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty five yards or two touchdowns on
21:18
Speaker 1: the year. Decent in the receiving game nine reception sixty
21:21
Speaker 1: four yards, one touchdown. What I see from him is
21:24
Speaker 1: he is still incredibly physical. Okay, the last game that
21:28
Speaker 1: we lost down there, there's times where we couldn't get
21:30
Speaker 1: him down. He's just someone he's like a catalyst for them.
21:33
Speaker 1: And if he gets going early on, it's gonna be
21:35
Speaker 1: really hard to stop that offense because once he gets going,
21:38
Speaker 1: now you gotta you're getting caught up in play action
21:40
Speaker 1: and dad, because it's gonna throw the ball over the yards.
21:41
Speaker 1: So it's got to start there. From our front seven.
21:44
Speaker 1: He stopping Zeke has to start in the front seven.
21:46
Speaker 1: And the Seahawks have been grad against the round the
21:48
Speaker 1: ranking number two in the NFL, allowing just sixty nine
21:51
Speaker 1: yards per game. So if they can keep that up,
21:54
Speaker 1: that's gonna be awesome. But let's remember Todd Gurley doesn't
21:58
Speaker 1: seem like the Todd girl of the oldest who played
22:00
Speaker 1: last week, or give me the first week and then
22:02
Speaker 1: second week, you pretty much played a quarterback who runs
22:05
Speaker 1: a football and Cam Newton. You still James White didn't
22:08
Speaker 1: play because of his unfortune situations. You still got birdcap
22:11
Speaker 1: at New England. So they've proven they can stop the run,
22:14
Speaker 1: but haven't been tested the way that they are going
22:16
Speaker 1: to be tested this week. Okay, the next matchup Seahawks
22:19
Speaker 1: DNS versus Cowboys backup tackles. Now you mentioned it earlier.
22:24
Speaker 1: The Cowboys lost their left tackle and you expect LJ
22:29
Speaker 1: and Vince Mayowa to really test this guy. LJ might
22:34
Speaker 1: be turning a corner that play he made last week
22:36
Speaker 1: against the New England Patriots and Cam Newton to seal
22:39
Speaker 1: the game. I feel like it's going to catapult him
22:41
Speaker 1: to another place, or at least I hope it does.
22:45
Speaker 1: Do the Hawks need these d ns to do more
22:49
Speaker 1: than what they've been doing for them to have success
22:51
Speaker 1: on Sunday? Well, yeah, honestly, I think they do, and
22:54
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned it. I really hope that this
22:56
Speaker 1: is springboard for LJ. Because unfortunately losing Bruce Irvin for
22:59
Speaker 1: the season with an ACL in a position group that
23:02
Speaker 1: was already kind of finned, those guys need to step up.
23:05
Speaker 1: And it's got to be a guy committee it So
23:06
Speaker 1: it's Bens and Mayoa, it's LJ. Collier, it's Rashim Green right,
23:10
Speaker 1: and then it's closed into the interior. You know, it's
23:12
Speaker 1: Puna Ford, it's Jay Reid, dem Entrey Moore. So all
23:15
Speaker 1: those guys got to step up as a collective unit.
23:17
Speaker 1: And for me, when they have an opportunity to get
23:19
Speaker 1: guys down, they have to finish right. You know, Cam Newton,
23:22
Speaker 1: we didn't sack him in all last for Jamal got
23:24
Speaker 1: him one time from behind, but there are several times
23:27
Speaker 1: where we had him dead to right, so we couldn't
23:29
Speaker 1: quite wrap up. So those guys really, when they have
23:30
Speaker 1: an opportunity, they have to finish only three sacks with
23:34
Speaker 1: his defense right now, two coming from the safety position. Okay,
23:38
Speaker 1: I love that Jamal Adams is active, but you said it,
23:42
Speaker 1: Bens Mayola needs to get after them. LJ J. Reid Poonam.
23:45
Speaker 1: I just want to hear different names in the sack
23:48
Speaker 1: column other than Jamal. Jamal, keep doing your thing, get
23:51
Speaker 1: them sacks. Do what you do. But for this defense
23:54
Speaker 1: to take another step, that defensive line needs to step
23:57
Speaker 1: up it. Why not be this week? Why not go
24:00
Speaker 1: after a backup tackle? Why not send some pressure? If
24:03
Speaker 1: the hawsing get through this game and start three and oh,
24:06
Speaker 1: it's looking like they can be five and oh before
24:09
Speaker 1: the bye week, so I'm looking forward to that. All right,
24:12
Speaker 1: How are they gonna get this win done? Here is
24:14
Speaker 1: the path to victory. One. You cannot let Dak Presscott
24:18
Speaker 1: throw for four hundred yards. It's almost like, actually, but
24:21
Speaker 1: we want Dak to throw for four hundred You know
24:23
Speaker 1: why the Danny O'Neil stacked because whenever a quarterback those
24:27
Speaker 1: four hundred yards, the Hawks are nine and o under
24:30
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll. So I say, you know what, plays off
24:32
Speaker 1: coverage led back through the rock? Right, That's what That's
24:34
Speaker 1: what data says, So we should be cool. That's what
24:37
Speaker 1: data says man, But come on, that stack cannot go
24:41
Speaker 1: on forever. It's one of those things too, are like
24:43
Speaker 1: you can say that, but I'm sure if you go
24:45
Speaker 1: to Ken Norton's junior right now and be like, are
24:46
Speaker 1: you okay with this, He's gonna say no. So I
24:48
Speaker 1: think they gotta and I think we started to see
24:50
Speaker 1: a little bit of it. We know Shaquille has played
24:53
Speaker 1: is played well this season, and Quentin Dunbar as the
24:55
Speaker 1: game went on last week, started playing a lot better.
24:57
Speaker 1: Got an interception. So I hope we can tighten some
24:59
Speaker 1: of the stuff up and it will definitely help if
25:01
Speaker 1: we get some pressure up front. Another thing they have
25:03
Speaker 1: to do. You have to bring that down. Not easier
25:06
Speaker 1: said than done. He's a big boy, not as big
25:08
Speaker 1: as Cam, but he's not small at all. And he's mobile.
25:12
Speaker 1: Not as mobile as Cam, but he's mobile. He actually
25:15
Speaker 1: he might be more mobile. Who do you think he's
25:17
Speaker 1: more mobile right now? Daker Cam today? I mean I
25:20
Speaker 1: would typically just say Cam. Maybe I might just be
25:22
Speaker 1: biased just thinking of all the games I've watched Cam,
25:25
Speaker 1: whether it was in college or at Carolina. But Dack's
25:27
Speaker 1: right up there too. I mean, he's not looking to run.
25:29
Speaker 1: But if he has to, he's gonna be out there
25:31
Speaker 1: and go, and he's gonna be a he's allowed to
25:33
Speaker 1: bring down for sure. Yep. Gotta wrap that dude up. Also,
25:37
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott can't get going early right the Hawks a
25:40
Speaker 1: number two against the run right now, allowing sixty nine yards.
25:43
Speaker 1: I don't think you can contain Zeke to only sixty
25:49
Speaker 1: nine yards. If you do, kudos, that's awesome. But I
25:52
Speaker 1: think if he had around eighty nine yards like last week,
25:55
Speaker 1: I think that's containing him. But it's not allowing him
25:59
Speaker 1: to have the big play early in game momentum, absolutely,
26:02
Speaker 1: and I think I think that's the one that's probably
26:04
Speaker 1: one of the biggest things this defense needs to fix
26:06
Speaker 1: moving forward, is not allowing explosive plays. The last two
26:10
Speaker 1: weeks really uncharacteristic of Pete Carroll coach defenses to give
26:14
Speaker 1: up explosive plays, whether it's running in the past, and
26:16
Speaker 1: it starts with Zeke. So you can't let him get
26:18
Speaker 1: going early. He can't pop one for thirty or forty.
26:20
Speaker 1: You gotta keep him contain. Anything under a hundred is
26:23
Speaker 1: good for me. Anything under one hundred you have to
26:25
Speaker 1: You talk about explosive plays. I can name two right
26:29
Speaker 1: now from last week. Stevie Lamb had to play for
26:31
Speaker 1: about fifty something yards. Amari Cooper had to play on
26:34
Speaker 1: a rollout for about forty something yards. You have to
26:37
Speaker 1: eliminate him. But what all the weapons that these dudes have,
26:39
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna pop, right, It's impossible to think that Lamb's
26:43
Speaker 1: not gonna do anything. Michael Gallup, we haven't really mentored Schultz,
26:46
Speaker 1: who scored the only receiving touchdown last year. These guys
26:49
Speaker 1: have weapons. So if you had to, what's what's the
26:52
Speaker 1: max amount of explosive plays you think these guys can allow? Three? Four?
26:57
Speaker 1: What do you think? I mean, Coachbeak, you'd say zero,
27:02
Speaker 1: But no, you're right. It's it's gonna happen at some
27:04
Speaker 1: points how you bounce back. But honestly, I think it's
27:06
Speaker 1: got to be under six. It's gotta be under six,
27:08
Speaker 1: and hopefully those are passes about fifteen yards and not
27:11
Speaker 1: long runs. But either way, if if you're round six,
27:14
Speaker 1: I think you're in good chape to win the ball game.
27:15
Speaker 1: And the most important key when it comes to their
27:19
Speaker 1: path to victory is letting Russell do his thing. This
27:22
Speaker 1: guy's playing out a high level. Pete Carrol says, he's
27:25
Speaker 1: throwing the ball with conviction. Shotty is up in the
27:28
Speaker 1: booth now, so now he can see the whole field.
27:32
Speaker 1: And I think that's huge in the development of this
27:35
Speaker 1: offense because we spoke to Ray in the Hawk Talk
27:39
Speaker 1: recap and he talked about Russell Wilson really having the
27:42
Speaker 1: keys to the car now. A big indicator of that
27:45
Speaker 1: is Shoddy being upstairs and not feeling like he's got
27:48
Speaker 1: to be in Russell's ear right now. He's got to
27:50
Speaker 1: have his hands on everything. When you start to kind
27:52
Speaker 1: of ease back a bit and delegate, that lets you
27:55
Speaker 1: know that you're in a good place. And obviously they're
27:58
Speaker 1: in a good place because Russell's playing at an extremely
28:00
Speaker 1: high level. Yeah, shot He's gonna keep doing shotting because honestly,
28:03
Speaker 1: he doesn't get enough credit. A lot of people like
28:05
Speaker 1: to go after offensive coordinators because that's low hanging fruit,
28:08
Speaker 1: but there's not a dang thing he can go after
28:09
Speaker 1: Shoddy or this offense for through two games a season.
28:12
Speaker 1: So Brian shaw Naimber keep calling great games and it's
28:14
Speaker 1: gonna be good for the Seahawks. On Sunday, Shotty, keep
28:18
Speaker 1: doing what you're doing. Defense data said you can give
28:21
Speaker 1: up four hundred yards passing. NAS doesn't like that, though,
28:24
Speaker 1: so let's let's pump the brakes on that rap Dak
28:28
Speaker 1: Prescott up. Don't allow Zeke to have explosive plays, not
28:32
Speaker 1: too many at least early, and do what you can
28:34
Speaker 1: on the outside. Attack that offensive line, especially especially the
28:38
Speaker 1: left tackle. Spy. It looks like we got the formula. Man,
28:41
Speaker 1: we should have send them our scout and reporting by
28:43
Speaker 1: looks the Hawks. These are the things you need to
28:45
Speaker 1: do to win. On Sunday, me and NAS gotta figure
28:47
Speaker 1: it out. We gotta figure it out. Let's get it done.
28:49
Speaker 1: Bum all right, there it is Hot Talk Preview edition,
28:54
Speaker 1: Week three. The Cowboys are coming to the Northwest. We
28:57
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for listening. Hey, take notes. We got
29:01
Speaker 1: the past victory. Hope these Hawks pay attention. We'll highlight
29:04
Speaker 1: you'all next time. Have a good one.