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Hawk Talk With Michael Bumpus - Wild Card 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. After ten yard line, second to day free
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Speaker 1: wide receivers now in motion as Puppas left to right,
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Speaker 1: Julius Jones, a single setback Matt Pumpfecks looking at the
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Speaker 1: goal line, he throws it into the end zone. Touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Say Hawks, it's Michael Bumpas with a diving catching the
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Speaker 1: end zone our ten yard touchdown reception for Puppas 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 up, folks,
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Speaker 1: This is Michael Bumpus along with my producer Nasa Choby.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Hawk Talk Preview edition. But we're talking
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Speaker 1: about the playoffs. Baby. The Hawks are going to filling
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Speaker 1: to take on the Eagles. Now, before we do all that,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna get into the injury report and I'll send
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Speaker 1: it over to Nas. Thanks. Michael Petkarroll step to the
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Speaker 1: podium this week and gave updates on Quandre Diggs, Marshawn Lynch,
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Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney, Dwayne Brown, and MALIEK. Turner. Yes he's going
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Speaker 1: I think, he said, on Monday that Marshawn kind of
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Speaker 1: came out pretty well days later. Any, he's good, he's
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Speaker 1: ready to go, ready practice today and no hesitation. How
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Speaker 1: about Molique Turner, He's gonna he's got some test to
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Speaker 1: do today to get cleared for them arow and everything
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Speaker 1: is trending towards he's gonna be back. Um, but I
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Speaker 1: say that, and he's got a meeting here right now
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Speaker 1: that he's gotta you know, performing and show that he's okay. Right. Um,
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Speaker 1: he's working at it. He's trying to he's trying to
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Speaker 1: get back. Um, he's going forward and see what he
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Speaker 1: can do. I don't know anything right now, there's nothing
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Speaker 1: he's done on the field yet. Jady. Yeah, he's fine. Well,
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Speaker 1: he's practicing and going. He's doing the best he can,
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Speaker 1: so he's ready to go again. The best news out
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Speaker 1: of all of that it looks like Quandre Diggs will
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Speaker 1: be available to go this weekend, which is huge news
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Speaker 1: for the Seahawks secondary. All right, Bump, let's get back
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Speaker 1: into it. You like you mentioned the wild card playoffs.
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Speaker 1: It's the second season. The Seahawks are the fifth seed
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Speaker 1: in the NFC, going on to take on the NFC
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Speaker 1: East Division champs nine and seven Philadelphia Eagles nine and
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Speaker 1: seven in their hosting. Yeah, man, we all know we
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Speaker 1: signed up for you know what I mean. It's disappointing.
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Speaker 1: We have a better record, but it is what it is. Man,
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Speaker 1: it benefited us a long time ago. So hey, it's
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Speaker 1: a new season. We already know that this team is
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Speaker 1: seven and one on the road this year, So I
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Speaker 1: don't think being on the road is gonna be an
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Speaker 1: issue with all this postseason. No, not at all. You know,
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Speaker 1: obviously we wanted to win that game, gets the forty
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Speaker 1: nine ers to get Minnesota at home. But I'm confident
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Speaker 1: on the road. The thing that you have to respect
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Speaker 1: about the Philadelphia Eagles, though, they won four games in
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Speaker 1: a row after being five and seven, so this is
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Speaker 1: a resilient group. You got a Carson Wentz who was
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Speaker 1: bawling right low key balling. No one's talking about him
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Speaker 1: over four thousand yards about twenty seven touchdown, seven picks.
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Speaker 1: He is bawling in he doesn't have a lot of
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Speaker 1: targets to go after. So you gotta respect this offense.
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Speaker 1: You have to. I mean the first the first matchup,
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks obviously were victorious. The final score was seventeen
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Speaker 1: to nine. It really wasn't that close, honestly, if you
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Speaker 1: look at the game, it was seventeen to three until
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Speaker 1: about a late garbage time touchdown with twenty sacks remaining
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Speaker 1: in the game. But Carson Wentz has been doing it
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Speaker 1: without guys. Man, they've missed a ton of receivers. If
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Speaker 1: you look at their offense, they're kind of middle of
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Speaker 1: the pack in terms of offense per game three hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty yards that's fourteenth in the NFL. Their pass
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Speaker 1: offense is eleventh in the NFL two hundred and thirty
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Speaker 1: nine pass yards game. And running the ball they're a
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Speaker 1: little above middle of the pack, ranked eleventh at one
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one yards per game. So they still
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Speaker 1: got weapons. Man, I mean, but at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, it's Carson Wentz. It's all about Carson Wentz,
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Speaker 1: and he's having a really good season. They look average
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Speaker 1: on paper, but we know they, like you mentioned, it's
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Speaker 1: a resilient bunch and this is the playoff. Their head coach,
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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson took them to a Super Bowl couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago. They have guys that are battle tested, so
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Speaker 1: definitely not a team you want to take lightly, not
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Speaker 1: a tim you want to take lightly. And then you
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Speaker 1: look at their rush defense to rank number three in
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Speaker 1: the league rush defense only letting their opponents average about
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Speaker 1: ninety yards per game. You know what these Seats want
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Speaker 1: to do. They want to rush the football to average
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Speaker 1: about one hundred and thirty. Last week they had about
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty one drew five with their backups
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Speaker 1: with their fourth string running back leaning the way. And
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Speaker 1: then there's Marshan and we still haven't seen Turbin yet,
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Speaker 1: so there's gonna be some chess chess going here, in
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Speaker 1: chess match going here. Yeah. In all season long, obviously
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Speaker 1: with Chris Carson, Rashad Penny seat their process, the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: have faced top ranked rush defenses and been prevailed every time. Well,
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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers came into Seattle to the number one rush
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Speaker 1: defensive Seahawks were able to run the ball. The forty
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Speaker 1: nine ers are a really good run defensive Seahawks. Both
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Speaker 1: times we're able to run the ball. So it's happened
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Speaker 1: throughout the season. The Vikings another good run defense, and
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Speaker 1: we were able to run two hundred plus yards on him.
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Speaker 1: So it's something to Seahawks want to do. It's a
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Speaker 1: part of their philosophy, and I definitely think that's so
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Speaker 1: going to be part of the game plan. I think
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Speaker 1: with their track record, doesn't matter who's carrying the ball,
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Speaker 1: they can get that done. Yep, it doesn't matter. It's
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Speaker 1: all about the guys up front and the timing of
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Speaker 1: the play calling, and I think Shannenheimer's done a great
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Speaker 1: job of that. Now, let's talk about their first game
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Speaker 1: against Filling in Week twelve. The defense play one of
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Speaker 1: their best games of the season. The defensive line zig
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Speaker 1: Y Allonsa had one a half sacks, two QB hits
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Speaker 1: at one fourth lem Rashim Green won sack, Kim Griffin
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Speaker 1: four tackles, almost had a sack, and was superactive Read
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Speaker 1: a half sacked, three tackles, Puna one tackle for loss,
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Speaker 1: and was this rough of all game. That's kind of
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Speaker 1: what they need to do. If Carson Wentz is the
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Speaker 1: key to Philly having success, the d line's going to
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Speaker 1: be the key to stopping them having that success. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And another big thing about that first matchup is there's
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Speaker 1: no Geveon Clowney exactly, So having him back and having
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Speaker 1: that D line in full strength, like you mentioned, Reid Ford,
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Speaker 1: Keem Griffin coming off the edge, Rashiem Green, who had
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Speaker 1: a really good sophomore season. Obviously, he loved the team
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Speaker 1: in sacks. The Seahawks didn't have a high sack number
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Speaker 1: this year, obviously about twenty seven tacks on the year,
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Speaker 1: but Rasheim Green to me, took probably the biggest step
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Speaker 1: of any of those rookies from last season into his
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Speaker 1: second year. Yeah, I totally agree with you. Another top
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Speaker 1: performer in Week twelve when the Hawks took on Philly
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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, kJ Wright, another mister consistent, had twelve tackles.
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Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner has six, and Michael Kendricks probably won't have
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Speaker 1: this will not he won't have had eleven tackles. So
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Speaker 1: we'll miss Kendricks there. We'll still have Bobby, We'll still
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Speaker 1: have kJ. So now, mister young Cody Barton's gonna have
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Speaker 1: to step in and make some play. Yeah. And the
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Speaker 1: good thing for Cody's he has seen a lot of
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Speaker 1: football now this year. He started early season, he started
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Speaker 1: getting a couple of reps against Atlanta, then he played
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Speaker 1: against the Rams, and he played last week, and he
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Speaker 1: played a lot of Carolina. So he's gotten a lot
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Speaker 1: of game reps against a lot of different teams, and
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Speaker 1: I think this matchup doesn't does two to him pretty
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Speaker 1: well because he's really good and pass coverage right, and
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Speaker 1: they're gonna try to do a lot of underneath stuff,
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Speaker 1: a lot of in between the numbers. So I think
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Speaker 1: Cody Barton's gonna have a big day and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: need him too, because Kendricks was incredibly active with the
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Speaker 1: leven tackles, so that's gonna be Cody Barton stepping into
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Speaker 1: that role. So we're definitely gonna need to see something
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Speaker 1: from him. Cody bart He's gotten some reps, but most importantly,
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Speaker 1: he's healthy. He's gotten rest, but he hasn't gotten hundreds
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Speaker 1: of plays. You know, he's gotten experience to where he
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Speaker 1: should feel comfortable on the film. He's young and he's healthy.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna rely on Cody Barton make some plays. Now,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the second Dary. The last time
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Speaker 1: the Hawks played the Philadelphia Eagles, Tray Hours had ten tackles,
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Speaker 1: three passes defended, one interception, Chakill Griffin four tackles, one
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Speaker 1: pass defended. Bradley McDougall's six tackles, one pass defended, one interception,
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Speaker 1: and Quandre Diggs one big hit. Hope this guy is
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Speaker 1: available to play boy. I do too, man, because when
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Speaker 1: Diggs was back there, those the Seahass defense had the
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Speaker 1: best stretch of games when Diggs was on the field.
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Speaker 1: It was the Niners game, it was that Eagles game,
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Speaker 1: it was that Viking same. When all those guys are
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Speaker 1: in the secondary, they're together. They were jelling him. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Diggs is gonna come down and hit you right. He
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Speaker 1: takes great angles. He's a great football player. Trey Flowers
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Speaker 1: had the best game of his season, and he had
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Speaker 1: a really good year this year, so he did well
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Speaker 1: against the Eagles. The first time Shaquille Griffin his back,
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Speaker 1: he had one game under his belt, which is gonna
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Speaker 1: be great to kind of get his legs back under
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Speaker 1: him because he's come back from hamstring and Bradley McDougall missed.
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Speaker 1: Are consistent. So if we can get all those guys
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Speaker 1: back together, that is when this defense is at full strength,
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Speaker 1: and that's when they're at their best. They're at their best,
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Speaker 1: and they probably were at their best in Philadelphia. The
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Speaker 1: last time they play offense didn't really put up that
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Speaker 1: many points. They relied on the defense to get it done.
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Speaker 1: You know what the conditions were like. It was windy
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Speaker 1: so far as supposed to be clear, but you know
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Speaker 1: how the weather goes. It could turn any seconds, so
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Speaker 1: they're they're projecting for good weather. But end of the day,
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Speaker 1: this defense has been there, they've done that, They're getting healthy,
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Speaker 1: so expect big games out of those guys there. Offensively,
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks struggled at times, but dominated on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Rashard Penny, who will not have had his best game
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Speaker 1: of his career with one hundred and twenty nine yards
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Speaker 1: on fourteen carries and a touchdown. Chris Carson, who were
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Speaker 1: not gonna have, had twenty six yards on eight carries,
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Speaker 1: tolling one seventy four on twenty six carries, one touchdowns
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Speaker 1: on a windy day. Russell Wilson was thirteen for twenty
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Speaker 1: five two hundred and a touchdown, So not bad numbers. No,
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Speaker 1: just weren't able to get in the end zone and
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Speaker 1: the amount of times that this offense would have liked to. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: they leaned on their defense a bit. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: like you said, I think people really underestimated myself personally.
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Speaker 1: I'll start with myself underestimated how bad those can editions
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Speaker 1: were because I remember there's a play Russell hit Malik
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Speaker 1: Turner on the little Fleet Flicker play for a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: And there's another play with Russell's scrambling to his right
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Speaker 1: at Hollister in the eye and just and that's Russell Wilson.
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Speaker 1: That's an MVP caliber player and he kind of sailed
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Speaker 1: it over because the wind was such a factor. So,
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Speaker 1: which goes back to whether the wins factor or not,
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Speaker 1: conditions or not, We're gonna have to be able to
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Speaker 1: run the ball still, Yep, it doesn't matter rainders shine,
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Speaker 1: the Hawks will run the football. Now we're gonna move
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Speaker 1: over to our key match matchups we talked about a
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Speaker 1: little bit already. Carson Wentz Wentz verse the Seattle Seahawks
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Speaker 1: front seven. Now, Wentz is the first player in history
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Speaker 1: to throw for four thousand yards in a season without
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Speaker 1: a five hundred yard receiver. According to ESPN, that's amazing
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Speaker 1: to me. You know what that tells me? Everybody's eating? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: who wants to eat? I mean that is there's a
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Speaker 1: reason that's not happened ever. In the end. To go
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Speaker 1: for four thousand yards without one five hundred receiver, that
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Speaker 1: means it's spread across the entire team. Whoever's in there,
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Speaker 1: he's getting it done. He also said a franchise record
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Speaker 1: for single season completions at three eighty eight and became
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Speaker 1: the first quarterback in team history to each four thousand yards.
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Speaker 1: The Eagles have been playing for a long time about Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Donovan mcnanovan. They cunning him. They've had some dudes and
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Speaker 1: had some guys. Hey, Nick Foles, he got him a ring.
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Speaker 1: He got him a ring. So they've got some dude.
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Speaker 1: So that just kind of speaks to Carson Wentz and
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Speaker 1: that he is going to be the key, the number
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Speaker 1: one key matchup for this game on Sundays, it's Carson Wentz. Yep. Overall,
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Speaker 1: Carson Witch is slightly level for four thousand yards, twenty
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Speaker 1: seven touchdowns, seven interceptions. The first game against Seattle, he
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Speaker 1: was thirty three or forty five two hundred fifty six yards,
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Speaker 1: one touchdown, two interceptions. We need a couple of those
10:34
Speaker 1: interceptions this week as well. Yeah, we need to be
10:37
Speaker 1: ball hawks. We need to be ballhawks again. It's been
10:38
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks since we've had that barrage of turnovers.
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Speaker 1: The Seahawks are still i want to say, third in
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Speaker 1: the league with about plus thirteen or plus twelve and
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Speaker 1: then turn turnover differential, So we're gonna need to seek
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Speaker 1: some of that come back up. The next matchup we're
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Speaker 1: gonna focus on is the our rbs, the running backs,
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Speaker 1: Travis Homer, Marshawn Lynch Verse, the Eagles front seven. I'm
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Speaker 1: a turban in there too, because you never know what
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Speaker 1: they're gonna do. Travis Homer last week ten carres for
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Speaker 1: sixty two yards, five receptions for thirty yards. Wasn't his
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Speaker 1: debut per se, but his debut as a starter, and
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Speaker 1: he didn't disappoint. The guy played well. He looked explosive.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't shining away from contact. He was good in
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Speaker 1: the past game. He was getting the run game when
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Speaker 1: the game was on the line, he was the running
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Speaker 1: back he was in the game that that game potentially
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Speaker 1: game winning drive. He was a guy that Pete Carron
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Speaker 1: Shotty trusted. Of course, he's proven it all season long.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's probably tough for a rookie in your
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Speaker 1: first year to be behind Chris Carson he's a boss
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Speaker 1: who you know, Rashad Penny who was the first round pick,
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Speaker 1: c J. Prosie. He's done in at times in this league.
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Speaker 1: So it's hard and for him to kind of keep
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Speaker 1: his head on straight and just focused, staying in the playbook,
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Speaker 1: work with running backs coach Chad Morton and kind of
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Speaker 1: just keep his head on Its great. And he saw
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Speaker 1: on against forty nine ers that is arguably the best
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Speaker 1: defense in football, and he was still he did just enough.
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Speaker 1: And the way he runs, man, he doesn't care about
11:55
Speaker 1: his body, no, sir. He was just whether he's somersault
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Speaker 1: and doing flips, he's coming down him and he's looking
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Speaker 1: for contact. You know, when I was twenty two, I
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Speaker 1: didn't care too much about my body. Nowadays, I gotta
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Speaker 1: get up and stretch. Next running back we're gonna talk about,
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Speaker 1: you know, it is the Beasts. Marshawn Lynch twelfth carries
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Speaker 1: thirty four yards and one big touchdown. The thing that
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Speaker 1: impressed me most about that touchdown when you look at
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Speaker 1: in slow motion, he jumps over the line, he thinks
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Speaker 1: about stretching it out. Now he brings it back in
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Speaker 1: because he knows he's good. It just looked so natural.
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Speaker 1: It didn't seem like a guy who wasn't explosive, who
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Speaker 1: was sitting on the bench or sitting at home on
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Speaker 1: the couch for two weeks. He looked like a guy
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Speaker 1: who was hey, I'm ready to go. And then you
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Speaker 1: hear him talk. He said, second half, I started getting
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Speaker 1: my legs, I started feeling it. So I would expect
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Speaker 1: a little more from Mars Shawn Lynch this game, knowing
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Speaker 1: that he's got had a couple of weeks of practice
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Speaker 1: and now he's been banged up a little bit. He's
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Speaker 1: felt the game, So step it up just a little bit. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and you know the numbers. I think we mentioned this
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Speaker 1: on the last podcast. Twelve carries thirty four yards, knocking
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Speaker 1: him bow you away, right, But that didn't tell a
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Speaker 1: story of what we saw from him beyond the emotional
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Speaker 1: lift he gave us. There's one His long yard run
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Speaker 1: of the game was fifteen yards. But you saw that
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Speaker 1: explosiveness and those cuts and the marsh on that we're
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Speaker 1: used to seeing. So seeing that's great, and man, I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna lie too. It was just nostalgic. See twenty
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Speaker 1: four in the backfield and Russell turned to hand the
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Speaker 1: Lynch and hear from Rabel. I mean it's it's a
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Speaker 1: big lift that he gave us. It was fun to see.
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Speaker 1: And the thing about it for me it's supposed encouraging
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Speaker 1: is like we mentioned here, stuff here, stuff less than
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Speaker 1: the tank. Yep, he can still go. So I think
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be a bigger part of the game plan
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Speaker 1: this week, and the combination of those two is gonna
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Speaker 1: be crucial for this team, especially because they're gonna have
13:34
Speaker 1: their work cut out for him yep, and have their
13:36
Speaker 1: work cut out for him, especially because Rashad Penny, when
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Speaker 1: crazy the first matchup, had probably his best game. But
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Speaker 1: he's not gonna be available, So you gotta role with
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Speaker 1: Travis Homer, Marshawn Lynch and Turban. As long as that
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Speaker 1: old line is semi healthy, I don't. I can't say
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Speaker 1: healthy because it's it's the playoffs. Everyone's banged up, everyone
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Speaker 1: was dealing with something. As long as they can can
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Speaker 1: get a little push, I think this running corps will
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Speaker 1: be okay. The next matchup, the Eagles Receiver Corps verse
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Speaker 1: the Seahouse Secondary Eagles Receiver. Eagles receiving Corps is banged up.
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Speaker 1: They're missing three starting receivers DeShawn Jackson's album on, Sean
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey's album, Nelson Agloor's out. Where do you go from here?
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Speaker 1: You got a bunch of names in this box score
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Speaker 1: that I don't I'm not really familiar with. As Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let you get Boston Scott Dallas, Go Dirt,
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Speaker 1: Josh Perkins, Deontay Burnette, Greg Ward Junior, Robert Davis, Miles Sanders.
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Speaker 1: Those are all the guys catching passes from Carson Wentz
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Speaker 1: last week in their Week seventeen victory, a game they
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Speaker 1: needed to win to win the division. So they got
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Speaker 1: guys that they have had a call from the practice squad.
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Speaker 1: They got a bunch of guys that the NFL US
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Speaker 1: included aren't super familiar with. That being said, the Seahawks secondary,
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Speaker 1: I think they need to be aggressive this take advantage
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Speaker 1: of this. They don't have their starters in there. If
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Speaker 1: I see these receivers go off, I'm gonna be very disappointed.
14:53
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers is having a good year. Man to Kill
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Speaker 1: Griffin's having a good year, Quandary is having a good year.
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Speaker 1: McDougall's having a good year. The secondary was the question
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Speaker 1: mark going into the season. But now they've gained a
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Speaker 1: lot of trust. They've show them that they can make plays.
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Speaker 1: And you have to take advantage of this roster, of
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Speaker 1: this receiving corps right here. You have to take advantage
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Speaker 1: of it. And now we don't know if zach Ertz
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Speaker 1: is gonna play or not, right, and is zach Ertz
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Speaker 1: is their leading receiver. Zach Ertz is kind of they
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Speaker 1: do everything guy for him. And if he plays, if
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Speaker 1: he if he puts something pads and suits up this weekend,
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Speaker 1: he is a bad man. A man's got broken ribs,
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Speaker 1: he's got a bad back, and yeah, so if he
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Speaker 1: can get out there for them, that'll be an incredible
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Speaker 1: effort on his behalf. If he doesn't, that's another advantage
15:36
Speaker 1: of Seahawks secondary and they're out to come with it. Yep.
15:38
Speaker 1: Never never wish bad on the man. But if he's
15:40
Speaker 1: not out there, I'm not I'm not too sad. Next
15:43
Speaker 1: matchup Eagles old line verse the Seattle Seahouse defensive line.
15:47
Speaker 1: The Philadelphia Eagles starting guard Brandon Brooks is out for
15:50
Speaker 1: the season, suffering the shoulder injury during Sunday's win over
15:54
Speaker 1: the Giants. Now their tackle Lane Johnson All Pro tackle
15:57
Speaker 1: is out what an ankle was out with ankle injury
16:00
Speaker 1: against the Giants on Sunday. That will suffer a Week
16:02
Speaker 1: fourteen to win over the Giants um decimated. Yeah, that's
16:06
Speaker 1: beyond the receiving corps. One thing. Now, up front, they
16:10
Speaker 1: got young guys dad the first time we play them,
16:12
Speaker 1: Dillard from Washington State got to start and then then
16:16
Speaker 1: they replace him with I'm not even gonna mess around
16:18
Speaker 1: with his name making number seventy five there. He's been
16:21
Speaker 1: playing right tackle for him. So honestly, the defensive line,
16:24
Speaker 1: they need to take a page out of what they
16:25
Speaker 1: did the first time and they need to get after
16:27
Speaker 1: it right. That's a great recipe. They're banged up up front,
16:30
Speaker 1: they're banged up in the secondary. Okay, if our defensive
16:33
Speaker 1: line can get pressure with how well our secondary is playing,
16:35
Speaker 1: especially if you get Quandary Digs back, that seems like
16:38
Speaker 1: a recipe for success for the Seahawks. This may be
16:40
Speaker 1: the only team that's more banged up than the Seattle Seahawks. Yeah,
16:44
Speaker 1: and it's hard to do because the Seahawks, their their
16:47
Speaker 1: injury report list is is pages long, campin on one page,
16:50
Speaker 1: so it'll be it's an interesting comparison, but yeah, that's
16:52
Speaker 1: gonna be huge. All right, let's move along to the
16:54
Speaker 1: playoff picture on the NFC sign. Of course, we got
16:58
Speaker 1: the Seahawks versus the Eagle. We're gonna We're gonna go
17:01
Speaker 1: ahead and say the Eagles win this game and move on.
17:04
Speaker 1: You mean you mean the Seahawks. What the Seahawks. I'm
17:12
Speaker 1: looking at a chart, this green on green. Yeah, I'm sorry, guys,
17:17
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, guys. The Hawks move on to play the Niners.
17:21
Speaker 1: Underneath them, we got the Vikings versus the Saints. Who
17:24
Speaker 1: you got, That's what I mean. The Vikings are a
17:26
Speaker 1: good football team. The Seahawks played them. Kirk Cousins Loki's
17:29
Speaker 1: having another really good year. I just my personal opinion.
17:33
Speaker 1: I don't see how they go into New Orleans another
17:37
Speaker 1: and probably the other than Kansas City, maybe the toughest
17:41
Speaker 1: environment outside century into playing in New Orleans with Drew Brees,
17:44
Speaker 1: when Thomas the way Kamar, the way they've played. We
17:47
Speaker 1: saw the murder in the year. I don't see the
17:49
Speaker 1: Vikings winning that game. Um, I have the Saints and
17:53
Speaker 1: that match up and what happens for those you don't
17:55
Speaker 1: know playoffs, Okay, you have the wild card round. The
17:59
Speaker 1: winner of those wild card games, the lowest remaining seed
18:02
Speaker 1: will play the Niners because they're the top seed, right,
18:05
Speaker 1: and then the other team will obviously play the Packers
18:07
Speaker 1: at Lambeau. So if everything kind of maps out the
18:10
Speaker 1: way I think it's going to, I believe the Vikings
18:13
Speaker 1: are gonna lose to the Saints, and the Saints will
18:15
Speaker 1: head to Green Bay and the Seahawks, if they take
18:17
Speaker 1: care of business, will be going back to play the
18:21
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers something. They've had a couple
18:24
Speaker 1: of good games this year, had a couple of classics,
18:26
Speaker 1: a couple of classics. I'm gonna say, the reason why
18:29
Speaker 1: the Vikings don't beat the Saints one name, Okay, Kirk Cousins.
18:35
Speaker 1: He doesn't beat teams that have winning records. That's just
18:38
Speaker 1: not what he does. Is nine his DNA. He doesn't
18:40
Speaker 1: win on primetime, doesn't win on Monday night, doesn't win
18:42
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night. That's is not what he does. Probably
18:45
Speaker 1: a great guy, but Kirk Cousins is just not gonna
18:47
Speaker 1: get it done for those boys. Yeah, and then obviously,
18:50
Speaker 1: I think every all the twelves out there. Would love
18:53
Speaker 1: to see the Seahawks and Niners go at it. Rubbert
18:55
Speaker 1: match one more time. On the other side, AFC, you
18:59
Speaker 1: got the Bills taken on the Texans and then you
19:02
Speaker 1: got the Titans in the Patriots. What do you think
19:04
Speaker 1: about that? Bump Buffalo? Let's go Buffalo. I'm a Josh
19:08
Speaker 1: Allen fan. Low key. Everyone hates on him. He's not
19:11
Speaker 1: a very accurate quarterback, but I appreciate his athleticism. I
19:14
Speaker 1: just like seeing him play. He's a fun player to watch,
19:16
Speaker 1: and I love Buffalo's defense. I got Buffalo. Who you got,
19:21
Speaker 1: I'm going with you. I got Buffalo too. I mean,
19:22
Speaker 1: first of all, Frank Gore, Yeah, I mean the fact
19:25
Speaker 1: that he is still playing Frank Gore. I mean I
19:28
Speaker 1: was a kid watching him play at Miami and then
19:30
Speaker 1: he's he was with the Niners during during the when
19:34
Speaker 1: this rivalry was at a peak and he was a boss.
19:36
Speaker 1: Then that was seven seven years ago, you know what
19:38
Speaker 1: I mean. The fact that he's still going and playing
19:40
Speaker 1: is huge. The Texans, they get to the playoffs every year.
19:44
Speaker 1: They're solid buns. JJ Watt. I saw a report is
19:46
Speaker 1: probably gonna come back and you're gonna play the difference.
19:50
Speaker 1: So this is why it's kind of hard for me,
19:52
Speaker 1: because the Texans have been in this early Saturday win
19:54
Speaker 1: now for the last decade and they've lost every single time.
19:59
Speaker 1: But they got Shaun Watson. They do have the Shaun
20:01
Speaker 1: Watson and Hopkins is the is the one that kind
20:04
Speaker 1: of gives me pause. But I still think the Bills
20:07
Speaker 1: are gonna go out and get a road victory. And
20:10
Speaker 1: then the Pats, who have not played on wild Card
20:12
Speaker 1: weekend for a decade, they don't play the first week.
20:15
Speaker 1: I mean, Tom Brady had plans. It was going to
20:17
Speaker 1: Cobbo or something like that. Man and the Titans, which
20:20
Speaker 1: is crazy story too because obviously I was Marcus Mariota's
20:23
Speaker 1: team and the Townehill comes in bawling, falling out. But
20:29
Speaker 1: I'm going for the upset. Oh oh, okay, I'm going
20:32
Speaker 1: with the Titans. Man. Wow, I think this is the
20:35
Speaker 1: game that Tom Brady decides I'm done. Wow, I'm not
20:39
Speaker 1: gonna do this. That is a hot I'm going with
20:43
Speaker 1: the Titans. Okay. Obviously the Pats are the favorite, so
20:48
Speaker 1: I'm going with the Titans. And if the Titans win,
20:50
Speaker 1: I'm gonna double down and say Tom Brady is done
20:54
Speaker 1: playing for the Pats. I don't think he'll play for
20:56
Speaker 1: anybody else. Maybe he won't. He loses this game, I
20:59
Speaker 1: think he's done. Wow. Um, that's a bold that's a
21:03
Speaker 1: bold take that we will definitely revisit on Monday. But
21:07
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't. Tom's still the goat. Uh. I
21:11
Speaker 1: don't see anyway that the Titans go into Fox Row
21:13
Speaker 1: and get it done. But you know what Mammy just did.
21:17
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. But this is a different season.
21:20
Speaker 1: As the start of this podcast about this season number two,
21:23
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter anymore. But you know what, that's why
21:25
Speaker 1: they play the game. That's why they play the games,
21:28
Speaker 1: all right, Bump, How do the Seahawks assure that they're
21:30
Speaker 1: gonna be playing on divisional weekend? What do they gotta do?
21:33
Speaker 1: Get the stuff? This is how they do it. They
21:34
Speaker 1: gotta start fast, don't get down early. Set the tone
21:38
Speaker 1: on the Eagles. The Hospital can't come from behind. We
21:42
Speaker 1: know that they've proven it all yearlong. Russell Wilson has
21:44
Speaker 1: a million fourth quarter in overtime comebacks. They've been there,
21:47
Speaker 1: they've done that. But with a team that has all
21:50
Speaker 1: these guys out, you're coming off an emotional loss. The
21:54
Speaker 1: Hawks are getting healthy, they're getting a couple guys back.
21:57
Speaker 1: Establish your dominance and let the rest of the end
21:59
Speaker 1: of fell know that you are for real. And how
22:02
Speaker 1: do you do that? You come out and smack on
22:04
Speaker 1: the mouth the first series. Yeah, No, it would be
22:06
Speaker 1: great to see a three and out Defensively, it'd be
22:09
Speaker 1: great to see the offense marched down and score and
22:12
Speaker 1: let people know they're not messing around. That's that's that's
22:14
Speaker 1: gonna be huge. Obviously, like you mentioned, if that doesn't happen,
22:17
Speaker 1: that's not the end all be all, but it'd be
22:18
Speaker 1: great to see and I think that's huge. Just kind
22:20
Speaker 1: of set the tone for the rest of this month. Yea,
22:22
Speaker 1: set the tone. Hey, get the Eagles fans booing, you
22:24
Speaker 1: know they'll boom. Oh, you get them bulling early? What
22:27
Speaker 1: else they gotta do? They got a pressure Carson Wentz
22:29
Speaker 1: playing two backups on the offensive line. They were playing
22:32
Speaker 1: two backups on that old line. You gotta take advantage
22:35
Speaker 1: of every situation that you have. I'm not saying that
22:37
Speaker 1: backups are bad, I'm not saying that they're horrible, but
22:40
Speaker 1: they're backups for a reason. All right, If that defensive
22:43
Speaker 1: line is healthy the way that we're expecting it to be.
22:45
Speaker 1: They gotta take advantage of that matchup. Yeah, no, I
22:48
Speaker 1: think that's huge. That's obviously one of the key matchups.
22:51
Speaker 1: Clowney hopefully he kind of recovers from his the core
22:55
Speaker 1: injury after playing last week. But if you have him, look,
22:58
Speaker 1: raziians to have a big day. Poona Ford j Read
23:00
Speaker 1: those guys. They have to be active. They have to
23:03
Speaker 1: be active. Also, what they have to do, you have
23:05
Speaker 1: to run the football. Get Travis Homer and Marshawn Lynch
23:08
Speaker 1: going early. I would like to see mars Shawn get
23:11
Speaker 1: the very first carry of the game. I don't think
23:13
Speaker 1: he will. I think Travis Homer has put in his work,
23:16
Speaker 1: his time to deserve that first carry. But it'd be
23:19
Speaker 1: nice to see mars Shawn get the first carry. Whoever
23:21
Speaker 1: gets it, I don't care if it's a one yard
23:23
Speaker 1: game or a five yard game. Lower the shoulder and
23:26
Speaker 1: remind these guys that the Seahawks run the football and
23:29
Speaker 1: they do it well. I loved it. I would love
23:31
Speaker 1: that first play whoever gets it to be a run.
23:34
Speaker 1: I think it's Ray Roberts socks about this all the time.
23:36
Speaker 1: How he's always like he in big games like that.
23:39
Speaker 1: He wants to come he's so jacked up. He wants
23:41
Speaker 1: to come forward you and you know what I'm saying.
23:42
Speaker 1: He wants to fire off the ball. He doesn't want
23:44
Speaker 1: to start pass that. And so I would love to
23:45
Speaker 1: see a big physical run on first down, kind of
23:48
Speaker 1: get the chains going again, setting the tone for what
23:50
Speaker 1: we're going to see. Also, they got to tackle and
23:52
Speaker 1: eliminate the long drives on defense. They must tackle. I
23:55
Speaker 1: think if the Hawks tackle a little better last week
23:57
Speaker 1: against the Niners, the game might be different, but who knows.
24:00
Speaker 1: And then eliminate the long drives on defense. Your guys
24:04
Speaker 1: get tired with those long drives. You need a couple
24:06
Speaker 1: three and outs just to rest those legs and keep
24:09
Speaker 1: those guys motivated. Yeah. No, definitely. The Niners had I
24:12
Speaker 1: think for their five scoring drives for over eight plays,
24:15
Speaker 1: and that's too long. Yeah, you've got to find a
24:16
Speaker 1: way to get off the field last, but not least,
24:18
Speaker 1: continue to be road warriors the franchise. It's seven to
24:22
Speaker 1: one this year. That's the franchise best on a regular season.
24:25
Speaker 1: Keep doing what you're doing. Struggle at home. Okay, that's
24:28
Speaker 1: over with. But let's focus on the good. The good
24:30
Speaker 1: is or seven and one at home and this is
24:32
Speaker 1: the postseason, new season goal one and oh go down
24:36
Speaker 1: to Philly, handle your business, come back home victorious and
24:40
Speaker 1: hopefully playing the Niners and Callie the following week. I
24:44
Speaker 1: really hope we're having a nice, fun Pete Carroll Show
24:47
Speaker 1: Monday morning with Danny, Gallant and Bump talking about how
24:50
Speaker 1: they gotta get ready for an epic showdown against the
24:53
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. Here we go, folks, wild Card playoffs.
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