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Ready For Lift Off · Hawk Talk

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus at the ten yard lives second to day
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Speaker 1: free wide receivers. Now in motion is Bumpas left to right,
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Speaker 1: Julius Jones, a single setback Matt Pumps 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. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to Hawk Talk Preview edition Week Forward team. The Seahawks
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Speaker 1: traveled down to Texas to take on the Houston Texas.
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Speaker 1: Looking to go to one. No, that's all we're looking for.
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Speaker 1: But before we get into it, let's bring an asid
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Speaker 1: Chubby with the injury updates. Thanks bump Well. Starting today's
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Speaker 1: injury report, we got some depressing news unfortunately, herbal safety
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Speaker 1: Jamal Adams will need surgery on his shoulder that will
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Speaker 1: end his season at Coach Carroll obviously disappointed. First thing,
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Speaker 1: I would just notice that you guys heard Jamal Adams
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Speaker 1: gonna have surgery. I think it's tomorrow on his shoulder,
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Speaker 1: and unfortunately he got hit just just the wrong way
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Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, and he's gonna have to
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Speaker 1: get fixed up. He's been through this before, and uh,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he's really rocked by it, of course,
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Speaker 1: but you know, we're all pulling for him to come
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Speaker 1: out and get out of this thing, get back as
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Speaker 1: soon as possible. But really disappointed for him as well
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Speaker 1: as us. On the positive side, looking like running back
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Speaker 1: Alex Cons will be back this week after missing last
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Speaker 1: week's game against the forty nine ers. Yeah, yeah, matter
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Speaker 1: of fact, he was ready to go. He feels better.
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Speaker 1: The week off really did make a difference for him,
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Speaker 1: and so, uh that's so that was the idea that
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Speaker 1: maybe we could you know, gain a little bit if
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Speaker 1: we held him out, and so far from when we
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Speaker 1: talked this morning, he feels considerably better. So he'll has
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Speaker 1: just to be really active in this game plan. Lastly,
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Speaker 1: another missing piece of the Seahawks offense has guard Damian Lewis,
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Speaker 1: who looks ready to go after missing the last two weeks.
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Speaker 1: They yeah, he was out today, was ready to go.
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Speaker 1: So he's got to make sure, you know, we have
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Speaker 1: to make sure we get him through the week. But
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Speaker 1: that's a real plus to get him back after all. Right,
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Speaker 1: that's enough talk about injuries. It's time to get into
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks Week fourteen opponent. What's on tap? What's on tapp?
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Speaker 1: Seahawks taking on the Houston Texans, who are struggling this year.
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Speaker 1: They are two and ten. Their only wins on the
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Speaker 1: season or against the Jacksonville Jaguars and somehow over the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans a couple weeks ago. I do not know
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Speaker 1: how that happened, Bump, And I'm just gonna be real
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Speaker 1: with you, man. Looking at the Texans on paper, this
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Speaker 1: is a game the Seahawks should win and dominate in
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Speaker 1: my opinion. I was gonna give you a background on
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Speaker 1: the Texans this year. It's been a long year man.
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Speaker 1: First year head coach David Cole has had his work
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Speaker 1: cut out fromm from the jump. And not only was
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Speaker 1: this first head coaching gig after twenty seven years as
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Speaker 1: assist in the NFL and forty three total coaching, he
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Speaker 1: stepped into one of the hardest situations in the NFL. Okay,
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Speaker 1: their starting quarterback to Shaun Watson, requested a trade before
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Speaker 1: he even showed up. Then Watson had all the off
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Speaker 1: field issues as we know, he's not played it down
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. Then over the last couple of years,
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Speaker 1: the Texans have lost JJ Watt, DeAndre Hopkins got out,
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Speaker 1: so they don't really have any superstar players. So after
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Speaker 1: beating the Jaguars in Week one, the Texans lost eight straight.
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Speaker 1: And my god, hasn't been a struggle for this offense.
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Speaker 1: They've been shut out twice this season and scored fourteen
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Speaker 1: points or less eight different times. They've also had some
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Speaker 1: disciplinary issues. They're star linebackers. That Cunningham was inactive against
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Speaker 1: the Colts for one of those issues. He was inactive
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Speaker 1: earlier in the season because he missed a team meeting
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Speaker 1: and the Texans just had enough today they released him
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Speaker 1: put him on waivers after giving him a five year,
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Speaker 1: like forty eight million dollar contract. Right and things have
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Speaker 1: been particularly bad for the Texans against the Colts, and
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Speaker 1: two games against the Colts the Texans were outscored sixty
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Speaker 1: two to three. These guys have not scored a point
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Speaker 1: against the Texans since the last six quarters, so the
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Speaker 1: box score pretty much tells you everything you know about
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Speaker 1: their last game. They lost thirty one to zero. I'll
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Speaker 1: just routed through a couple of these things. They were
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Speaker 1: dominated time in possession. The Texans had the ball for
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Speaker 1: eighteen minutes twenty five seconds, the Colts had it for
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Speaker 1: forty one minutes thirty five seconds. India had twenty six
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Speaker 1: first downs and Texans had nine. India had three hundred
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Speaker 1: eighty I had totally yards, Texans had one to forty
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Speaker 1: one three or twelve and the the third down total domination.
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Speaker 1: Things were bad from the jump, interception, fumble, all this stuff.
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Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna go through all the stats because
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Speaker 1: it was bad. But it got even worse. Tyrod Taylor
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Speaker 1: injured his wrist. They weren't sure if he can go
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Speaker 1: back in the game because he could whether he could
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Speaker 1: grip the ball or not. But before he came out,
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Speaker 1: he was five and thirteen for forty five yards. Insert
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Speaker 1: Davis Mills. He wasn't very good either. He was six
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Speaker 1: or fourteen for forty nine yards and kind of his
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Speaker 1: whole year. The head coach, David Cole has been behind
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Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor, saying he's our quarterback if he's healthy. This
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Speaker 1: week he kind of started to change his tone. They
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Speaker 1: got to reevaluate everything, so we'll see bump. But in short,
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Speaker 1: these Texans are having a tough season. Yes, they are
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Speaker 1: having a tough one, and I'm glad that we're playing them.
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Speaker 1: Let's go, let's get another victory this week, and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna look at these head to head comparisons and this
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Speaker 1: is the first time in a long time now we
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Speaker 1: look at these head to head numbers and we're like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we match up pretty well against this team. Now. We know,
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Speaker 1: like personnel wise, scheme wise, because we watched the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: every single week, we know where their strength and their
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Speaker 1: weaknesses are, regardless of what these numbers say. But when
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Speaker 1: you break down this head to head comparison total offense,
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Speaker 1: the Hawks are the thirty first ranked offense in the league.
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Speaker 1: The Texans are the thirty second rush offense. Hawks are
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Speaker 1: ranked twenty fourth, The Texas are ranked thirty second. Pass offense.
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Speaker 1: Hawks are ranked twenty seven, the Texas are ranked thirty first.
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Speaker 1: And then points per game. Hawks are putting up nineteen
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Speaker 1: that's twenty second and the Texans are putting up thirteen.
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Speaker 1: Out is thirty two. Switch over to the defense. Total defense,
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Speaker 1: don't worry Hawks still got it there. Thirty first ranked
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Speaker 1: defense in the league, Texans twenty eight against the run,
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Speaker 1: the Hawks are twenty fourth and Texans are thirty second
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Speaker 1: against the past the Hawks are thirty second. This is
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Speaker 1: where the Texans have a little edge. They are ranked
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Speaker 1: fifteenth points allow per game. The Hawks are six allowing
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Speaker 1: twenty point eight and the Texans are thirtieth allowing twenty
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Speaker 1: six points per game. Now, if you throw the football
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Speaker 1: in the air irresponsibly, yeah, the Texas can come down
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Speaker 1: with it because they got fourteen interceptions to the Hawks seven.
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Speaker 1: If there's something they do well is these dbs will
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Speaker 1: get after the football win is thrown up in the
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Speaker 1: area responsibly. But other than that, I watched the film,
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Speaker 1: I look at them on paper. This is the first
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Speaker 1: game of the year where I feel extremely confident going
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Speaker 1: into this thing. Respect everybody though, of course this is
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Speaker 1: the NFL, and then they have They do have some history,
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Speaker 1: no your history. It's not a deep history though these teams.
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Speaker 1: Given that the Texans are in the Nancy South, the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks only play them about every four years. Seahawks lead
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Speaker 1: the all time series three to one. However, the last
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Speaker 1: time these teams linked up It was a shootout at
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Speaker 1: Looman Field, with the Seahawks winning forty one to thirty eight,
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Speaker 1: and it was all about the QB's big time battle
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Speaker 1: between Russell Wilson and Deshaun Watson. Both teams combined for
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Speaker 1: nine hundred and eighty eight yards of total offense, which
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Speaker 1: is unbelievable because Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas, and Camp Chancellor
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Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner, all those dudes were still playing in this
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Speaker 1: matchup back in twenty seventeen. Russell Wilson said a career
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Speaker 1: high that still stands today in passing yards with four
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two as well as four touchdowns and
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Speaker 1: one interception. Deshaun Watson wasn't too far behind, going nineteen
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Speaker 1: to thirty for four hundred and two yards and four touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: but he was turned over three times, including an interception
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Speaker 1: pick six by Earl Thomas. Tyler Lockett Paul Richton each
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Speaker 1: had over one hundred yards to lead the Seahawks and
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Speaker 1: d Hot Boy, who went off eight receptions two hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty four yards and one touchdown. The game came
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Speaker 1: down to the wire. The Seahawks got the ball back
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Speaker 1: with one thirty nine remaining in the fourth quarter, trailing
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Speaker 1: thirty eight to thirty four, and just he plays Russell.
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Speaker 1: Wilson led them down the field and linked up with
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham for this eighteen yard touchdown to take lead.
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Speaker 1: Russell gets the offense to the line. Is he gonna
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Speaker 1: slam it down? Where's he gonna bake a play? He
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Speaker 1: takes a snap, He's gonna look down field, He's gonna
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Speaker 1: throw Jimmy gram touchdown. Seahawks Jimmy Graham on a shot
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Speaker 1: right down the middle of the field. Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 1: Holy Catfish? Want a play? Want a five and eighteen
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Speaker 1: yard play? And the twelves aren't going nuts? I remember
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Speaker 1: that game specifically other than all the fireworks, because Steve
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Speaker 1: Rabel had lost his voice going into that game. As
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Speaker 1: he saw it wasn't the typical Steve Rabel voice to
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Speaker 1: finish out a call, especially in a big time moment.
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Speaker 1: So happy Rabel got some tea and was healthy after
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Speaker 1: that game. But it was a tough moment. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: long story short, the Seahawks have owned the Texans in
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Speaker 1: their four matchups, going three in one. Hopefully we'll see
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Speaker 1: some more fireworks offensively and the Seahawks will be able
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Speaker 1: to shut them out on offense. All right, let's check
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Speaker 1: in what's going on in the NFC West with what's
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Speaker 1: the word and the Seahawks where the NFC West champs? Again,
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Speaker 1: what's the word in the West? On hot talk? NFC
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Speaker 1: Weston's doing what it does. The errors on the Cardinals
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Speaker 1: are ten and two? Are they the best team in
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Speaker 1: the NFL? I think so. People are trying to put
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Speaker 1: the package in front of them tenants two. You cannot
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Speaker 1: deny that Los Angeles Rams are eight and four the
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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty niners or six and six, but you
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Speaker 1: know the Seahawks just gave them another. LMS are at
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Speaker 1: the bottom of the barrel at four in a yes,
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Speaker 1: San fran you are six and six, but who at
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Speaker 1: those losses come to your come from the Seattle Seahawks. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Rams played the Jags last week. The Rams from
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Speaker 1: the start got it going and it was just a
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Speaker 1: beat down man. The Jags followed two and ten on
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Speaker 1: the season. The Rams lost three consecutive games prior to this.
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Speaker 1: They knew this was get right game. You played the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars on a three game skid, You're like look, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna make this happen. The Rams led sixteen to seven.
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Speaker 1: Had happened. We scored twenty one unanswered points in the
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Speaker 1: second half win in the game, thirty seven to seven.
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford struggled over the past few weeks. He got
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Speaker 1: going again in twenty six to thirty eight, twenty ninety
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Speaker 1: five yards, three touchdowns and zero intercessions. Last three games
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Speaker 1: he threw five, so he's back on track. Cooper Cup
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Speaker 1: just does what he does. Eight receptions, one hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty nine yards, one touchdown. Then he had an interview
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Speaker 1: after the game and he broke down a play and
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Speaker 1: made it sound so complicated too, Moss, But it's just football.
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Speaker 1: I love the response, and I like the way Twitter
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Speaker 1: has jumped on a touchdown. Specifically, your defender went and blitz.
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Speaker 1: What did you see there? How were you able to
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Speaker 1: use that to your advantage? Yeah, he's had a little
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Speaker 1: three deep fire zone, brought the nickel off the edge
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Speaker 1: safety dropped down. They didn't look like they're doing a
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Speaker 1: replacement fire zone. So I knew at the back of
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Speaker 1: the way we were gonna get three pushing through. I
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Speaker 1: had all three to kind of run in there if
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Speaker 1: I could beat my guy and just had to beat
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Speaker 1: the safety to the end zone. For people who don't
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Speaker 1: have a PhD in football or hear that play and
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Speaker 1: just it just jumbled nonsense, break it down for the
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Speaker 1: listeners to bring it, bring it back to Simpleton's terms,
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Speaker 1: because even though it sounded really complex, it really wasn't.
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Speaker 1: Now not very complex at all. Pretty much the safety
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Speaker 1: rolls down, starting to two high. Safety rolls down. They
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Speaker 1: show a cover three. Look that Nickel fires me. He
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Speaker 1: blitzes off the ass. He goes, look, he's not gonna
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Speaker 1: replace him, So this running back is going to influence
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Speaker 1: what he's gonna do. Running back is swinging the opposite way.
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Speaker 1: The second level's gonna to flow that way. Now he
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Speaker 1: knows all he has to do is sprint to a
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Speaker 1: certain spot of the film and he's good to go.
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Speaker 1: But it sounds way more intelligent when you break it
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Speaker 1: down the way Cooper Cup did. I loved it. The
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Speaker 1: thing I loved about it too, is even though in
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Speaker 1: the football world that's not super complex, but it's still
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Speaker 1: a lot. And that just gives you an insight to
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Speaker 1: what everyone has to do on the football field. So
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Speaker 1: everyone who's calling place from your couch. Who is who
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Speaker 1: is talking at the water cool or at the coffee
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Speaker 1: stand in the morning or in the break room. Who
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Speaker 1: knows everything about football? Relax a little bit because the
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Speaker 1: guys who are playing, in coaching and doing it know
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Speaker 1: a lot more than you do. And that's at the
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Speaker 1: receiver position. Every position has similar things that they're looking
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Speaker 1: for in every single play. And on top of that, bump,
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Speaker 1: the quarterback position needs to know all of it everything,
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Speaker 1: So relax everybody. But anyway, shout out Cooper cup because he,
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Speaker 1: as we talked about on this program many times, he's
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Speaker 1: one of the best in the national football leagues. So
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Speaker 1: good to see Cooper getting after it. As long as
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Speaker 1: he gonna do it against Seahawks. I'm fine. Hey, we're
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Speaker 1: all good. We're all good. There are other players who
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Speaker 1: played well other than Cooper. Cups sold him. Michelle had
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Speaker 1: a nice day in the ground. Twenty four carries, one
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Speaker 1: hundred twenty one yards and one touchdown. Trevor Lawrence Man,
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Speaker 1: poor guy number one pick got married. I mean, life
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Speaker 1: is good for this dude. What he loses twice in college,
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Speaker 1: maybe once in high school and he is just going
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Speaker 1: through a tough season. He won sixteen to twenty eight,
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Speaker 1: one hundred forty five yards, zero touchdown, but zero interceptions.
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Speaker 1: This defeat means urban Meyer will lose at least twice
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Speaker 1: as minigames in his rooky NFL season as he ever
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Speaker 1: did in any of his seventeen seasons as head coach.
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Speaker 1: At the college level. That NFL will humble your you
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Speaker 1: know what, from Trevor Lawrence to Urban Meyer. You're not
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Speaker 1: just gonna come in here and save the day. You
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Speaker 1: need a real team around you, and it takes some time.
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Speaker 1: You know, I can't think of a college coach who
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Speaker 1: came in and just toured up from the jump. There's
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Speaker 1: always been an adjustment period that you have to make,
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Speaker 1: no question about it. You look at Nick Saban. Nick
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Speaker 1: Saban wasn't successful in the NFL. Right, people forget Pete
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Speaker 1: Carroll was in the NFL for a long time before
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Speaker 1: he went back to USC and was a great defensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator in San Francisco when they had all that success.
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Speaker 1: But you know it was in the Patriots. He had
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Speaker 1: three seasons took him the playoffs coach for the Jets too,
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Speaker 1: but his first couple of seasons weren't great, but his
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Speaker 1: not great seasons were never anywhere near as bad as
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Speaker 1: what Urban's going through. So you're right, the NFL will
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Speaker 1: humble you. And also in the division, billboarded the Cardinals
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Speaker 1: they were taking on the Bears. Kyler Murray made his
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Speaker 1: return after missing about a month from injury, and he
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Speaker 1: just made it look easy. Man. These Cardinals, they were
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Speaker 1: coming off a bye. Improved his seven and oh on
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Speaker 1: the road, and each one of those wins by ten
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Speaker 1: points or more. Jalen Thompson Buddha Baker each picked off
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Speaker 1: passes on Chicago's first couple possessions. Murray took advantage, linking
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Speaker 1: up with Hopkins on a twenty yard or then scrambling
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Speaker 1: for a nine yard touchdown. He also threw twenty yard
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Speaker 1: touchdown at James Conner, making twenty one to seven, sending
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Speaker 1: Chicago to their six loss in the last seven games.
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Speaker 1: Murray completed eleven of fifteen passes for one hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty three yards, giving him ten thousand, ninety two yards
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Speaker 1: in three seasons. On a rough, nasty afternoon, and at
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four years of age, he became the fourth
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Speaker 1: youngest player with ten thousand career passing yards. According to
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Speaker 1: NFL research, he also joined Cam Newton is the only
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Speaker 1: players in NFL history with at least ten thousand yards
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Speaker 1: passing in fifteen fifteen hundred yards rushing in his first
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Speaker 1: three seasons. Jandre Hopkins also came back from hamstring injury,
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Speaker 1: caught two passes for thirty two yards. Was used kind
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Speaker 1: of sparingly. James Conner had seventy five yards rushing thirty
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Speaker 1: six receiving. Bears just really couldn't overcome all those interceptions
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Speaker 1: thrown by Andy Dalton, who had four of them. Cardinals
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Speaker 1: improved to a league best tenants to record. Now, I
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Speaker 1: don't really know, Bump. I mean, there's not a lot
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Speaker 1: else to say. These guys are a good football team.
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Speaker 1: They show a weekend week out no matter who's playing.
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Speaker 1: So they're gonna be a force to be reckoned with
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Speaker 1: heading into the postseason. We'll see what happens after that.
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Speaker 1: Current playoffs standings, all you need to know is the
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Speaker 1: Niners are six and six and they're holding the final
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Speaker 1: playoffs spot. Seahawks are four and ain't. Obviously a lot
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Speaker 1: of chaos would have to happen, but as Pete Carroll said,
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Speaker 1: they ain't dead yet. Okay, you know me a mister positivity.
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Speaker 1: They're not done yet. It would take mountains would have
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Speaker 1: to move for something to happen. But they're only two
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Speaker 1: games out with five to play. Sehawks went out, Who knows?
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Speaker 1: I saw I saw a meme, Right, you shouldn't get
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Speaker 1: information from memes, but I saw a meme NS and
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Speaker 1: it said if the Seahawgs went out and there are
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Speaker 1: no other upsets, they make the playoffs. How true is that?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm gonna hold onto that. I
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Speaker 1: hold on. You hold onto the memes you like, right me,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold onto that one. Absolutely. Hey, there's a lot.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure if you jump in those playoffs simulators, I'm
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Speaker 1: sure there's a million different ways where it could possibly happen. Shoot,
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Speaker 1: going into last week, there was a scenario where the
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Speaker 1: Lions can make the playoffs. I mean, I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's still possible, but they did some crazy thing and
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Speaker 1: they were still mathematically not eliminated. So I'm saying there's
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Speaker 1: a chance. I know it's a long shot. I know
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Speaker 1: people listen are probably crush me for it. I'm not
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Speaker 1: I'm not thinking that far. Seahawks didn't need to take
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Speaker 1: care of business on Sunday. But I'm saying there's a chance.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, let's get back to those Houston Texans. Man
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Speaker 1: up is this man on Hawk Talk? First matchup? We're
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Speaker 1: gonna look at Texas quarterback versus the Seahawks defense, Tyrod Taylor. Man,
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Speaker 1: this fella right here might be the unluckiest quarterback in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. He has lost his starting job three times
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Speaker 1: already in his career. He lost it in Buffalo to
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Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman. Why, I don't know, Nathan Peterman, don't get it.
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Speaker 1: Then he loses his job in Cleveland when he got
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Speaker 1: a concussion. In the Baker Mayfield took over. He's been
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Speaker 1: to start ever since. That makes more sense. You knew
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Speaker 1: Baker was eventually going to be the guy who's waiting
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Speaker 1: for his term. And then in La he lost it
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Speaker 1: when a team doctor accidentally punctured his lung. Given justin
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Speaker 1: Herbert the keys to the car. We knew that was
17:40
Speaker 1: gonna happen too. But it's kind of like just how
17:42
Speaker 1: he has lost his job. This guy is just super unlucky.
17:46
Speaker 1: Can't catch a break now. This year, he started the
17:49
Speaker 1: season as QB one started the first game. Excuse me started,
17:53
Speaker 1: started the game and then injured his hamstring. Injured his hamstring.
17:57
Speaker 1: He's banged up again. It feels like the injury bug
18:01
Speaker 1: and the unfortunate bug just follows Tyrod Taylor around. He
18:04
Speaker 1: misses the next six game games. His replacement, David Mills,
18:07
Speaker 1: will go oh and six on those ball games. Taylor returns,
18:09
Speaker 1: he goes one and three. Taylor left the game Sunday
18:12
Speaker 1: with a risk injury. He was five or thirteen forty
18:14
Speaker 1: five yards. Mills comes in, didn't do much six to
18:17
Speaker 1: fourteen forty nine yards. Then you gotta look at that online.
18:21
Speaker 1: Lots of injuries and shuffling on online. Let's impacted both quarterbacks.
18:24
Speaker 1: You gotta have a quarterback, obviously, but you gotta have
18:26
Speaker 1: an on line to protect as a starter or while
18:29
Speaker 1: Taylor's in there. He was ninety one to one fifty
18:31
Speaker 1: nine hundred six six yards, five touchdowns, five interceptions, nineteen
18:34
Speaker 1: carries one hundred and fifty one yards and three touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: Mills one forty six two twenty three fourteen hundred yards,
18:40
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns, eight interceptions. Head coach Coolly, we'll name a
18:45
Speaker 1: starter later this week. All right, the Seahaw defense needs
18:48
Speaker 1: to shut down whoever's at the QB spot Tyrod Taylor's
18:51
Speaker 1: has some good years, He's has some good moments. I
18:53
Speaker 1: think those moments are behind him, and I feel like
18:55
Speaker 1: Mills just wants to turn the ball over anyway. The
18:58
Speaker 1: Texas are thirty first in passing and they are thirty
19:01
Speaker 1: seconds when it comes to points per game, averaging thirteen.
19:05
Speaker 1: This is set up for the Seahawks defense to continue
19:08
Speaker 1: to grow and be dominant. You need to take careful ball,
19:12
Speaker 1: team ass Andrey's on an old line and no stability
19:15
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position, no question about it. They're dead
19:18
Speaker 1: lasting points per game, they can't score, They're thirty first
19:21
Speaker 1: and pat I mean they everything. The Seahawks have had
19:23
Speaker 1: tough moments, so I'm not saying that obviously this year offensively,
19:27
Speaker 1: but everything the Texans do, it's a grind, it's a fight.
19:31
Speaker 1: So if the Seahawks really need to take advantage defensively
19:33
Speaker 1: when it comes to the next matchup, QB one for
19:36
Speaker 1: the Seahawks Russell Wilson against the Texans defense. Russell played
19:39
Speaker 1: his best game since returning from the finger injury, and
19:41
Speaker 1: it wasn't close. Last week against the forty nine ers,
19:44
Speaker 1: he was an efficient thirty to thirty seven two hundred
19:46
Speaker 1: and thirty one yards, two touchdowns, and he was able
19:49
Speaker 1: to get the Seahawks in a rhythm for really the
19:51
Speaker 1: first time since we've seen since that Jaguars game on Halloween.
19:54
Speaker 1: So it's been a while, and I expect this trend
19:56
Speaker 1: to continue the Texans. They're twenty eighth overall defense, towards
20:00
Speaker 1: the bottom of the league, and they're dead last stopping
20:02
Speaker 1: the run. They're thirtieth in points per game line twenty six,
20:05
Speaker 1: So I feel like Russells should have a big day
20:07
Speaker 1: building off of what we saw. Head coach Pe Carroll
20:10
Speaker 1: talked about it last week. He got to the eight
20:12
Speaker 1: week mark from his injury, when he was supposed to
20:14
Speaker 1: tecking me back the first time. He expected him to
20:17
Speaker 1: be his closer to his normal self, the best performance
20:20
Speaker 1: we've seen from him. Predicted that before the game. It
20:22
Speaker 1: came true, and I expect nothing, nothing less from the
20:25
Speaker 1: quarterback on Sunday against Texans. All right, next matchup, Texans
20:30
Speaker 1: running back verse the Seahawks front seven. Guess who the
20:33
Speaker 1: Texans leading rusher is. Nasa Choby's mark ingram ninety two
20:36
Speaker 1: carries twenty ninety four yards, one touchdown. But he ain't
20:39
Speaker 1: there no more. He has gone. He is back with
20:41
Speaker 1: the saying, so they're gonna rely on guys like David Johnson. Say.
20:44
Speaker 1: He's the second leading the rusher on the team. Fifty
20:46
Speaker 1: six cars one hundred seventy six yards, averaging three point
20:49
Speaker 1: one yards per carry. He has twenty eight receptions for
20:51
Speaker 1: two hundred and fourteen yards and one receiving touchdown. David
20:56
Speaker 1: Johnson man, remember when he was with the Arizona Cardinals,
20:59
Speaker 1: an excitement that he had, and something happened when he
21:01
Speaker 1: went to the Texas just fell off a little bit.
21:03
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor is a third leading rusher while playing in
21:06
Speaker 1: only six games. And then you have Rex Burkhead, who
21:11
Speaker 1: has shown some explosiveness. It's not the guy that we
21:15
Speaker 1: were used to see him, but I broke down a
21:18
Speaker 1: couple of plays and there's some power football going on.
21:20
Speaker 1: He can still get north south. We'll see if he
21:22
Speaker 1: can handle twenty twenty five carries a game. There's just
21:25
Speaker 1: not much in that backfield. You're relying on your quarterback
21:28
Speaker 1: to really get it done. David Johnson, who hasn't shown
21:31
Speaker 1: that he can be in every down back the last
21:34
Speaker 1: few years, and then Burkhead, I look at his backfield
21:37
Speaker 1: and I'm not too concerned when it comes to the
21:41
Speaker 1: playbackers over there. Yeah, you look at burkheads last three games,
21:44
Speaker 1: eight carries thirty yards, twelve carries twenty seven yards, eighteen
21:47
Speaker 1: carries forty yards. They struggled to running football and it
21:51
Speaker 1: shows there they're bouncing back and forth. David Johnson was
21:53
Speaker 1: inactive last week with illness and a thigh injury, so
21:56
Speaker 1: we'll see if he's back this week. But either way,
21:59
Speaker 1: I mean, whoever's back there, I think the Sehaws should
22:01
Speaker 1: have the advantage. Last week, the Seahawks held the powerful
22:05
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers rushing attack to seventy five yards on
22:08
Speaker 1: twenty one carries. Prior to that game, the forty nine
22:11
Speaker 1: Ers and their last three ravaging one hundred and seventy
22:13
Speaker 1: eight yards a game, so they were doing it. The
22:15
Speaker 1: Seahawks shut him down. Obviously, there's no Deebo Samuel, but
22:18
Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell still ball player, and the Seahawks came with it.
22:21
Speaker 1: Al Woods and all those guys played really well, and
22:24
Speaker 1: they're thirty second in rushing yards in averaging just seventy
22:27
Speaker 1: eight per game, so the Seahawks should definitely dominate this matchup.
22:31
Speaker 1: Another matchup, Bump, I think you'll agree with me on
22:32
Speaker 1: this one. Brandon Cooks taken on the Seahawks secondary. When
22:35
Speaker 1: you go through the Texans roster, Brandon cook is the
22:38
Speaker 1: one guy that scares you. On the season, Cooks is
22:42
Speaker 1: sixty five receptions, seven hundred and forty two yards, three touchdowns.
22:45
Speaker 1: He's had four straight one thousand yards seasons from twenty
22:48
Speaker 1: fifteen and twenty eighteen with the Saints, Patriots and Rams.
22:51
Speaker 1: Last year, Cook's had a nice first season with Houston
22:54
Speaker 1: eighty one receptions eleven hundred and fifty yards, six touchdowns.
22:58
Speaker 1: But Bump, there's a huge draw Boff when you look
23:00
Speaker 1: at the rest of the Texans offense. The second leading
23:03
Speaker 1: receiver Chris Conley, he only has fourteen receptions two hundred
23:06
Speaker 1: and thirty three yards in one touchdown. So if you
23:08
Speaker 1: can shut down Brandon Cooks, I don't really see where
23:11
Speaker 1: they go in this pass game. Texas man, he was
23:15
Speaker 1: like a hidden gym with the Texans. You watch him.
23:17
Speaker 1: He has speed, great route running, good hands. Man. It
23:21
Speaker 1: must be frustrating for a guy like him to be
23:23
Speaker 1: over there and just be handcuffed, all right. Next matchup
23:26
Speaker 1: DK Madcap and Tyler Lockett versus the Texans secondary. It's
23:29
Speaker 1: another matchup. The Seahawks should have an advantage. But even
23:33
Speaker 1: though we talked about the secondary calls and turnovers, this
23:35
Speaker 1: is DK and Tyler Lockett. Last week we saw them
23:38
Speaker 1: get back on track. The duel combined for twelve receptions,
23:41
Speaker 1: one hundred twenty eight yards and one touchdowns. Not huge numbers,
23:45
Speaker 1: but we wanted more targets. We got more targets to
23:48
Speaker 1: that guy, to those excuse me, those two guys. So
23:50
Speaker 1: far on the season, Lockett fifty seven receptions, eight hundred
23:53
Speaker 1: and eighty one yards and four touchdowns. You look at
23:56
Speaker 1: a DK fifty two receptions, seven hundred ten yards in
23:58
Speaker 1: eight touchdowns. The secondary, they're gonna have their handful, all right.
24:02
Speaker 1: They struggle stopping the run, but they are pretty good
24:05
Speaker 1: against the past. Like I mentioned, they ran fifteenth in
24:08
Speaker 1: the NFL allowing the two hundred and thirty four yards
24:10
Speaker 1: per game and at fourteen interceptions as a unit in
24:13
Speaker 1: comparison to Seahawks only have seven over there. On the
24:16
Speaker 1: defensive side, they got Desmond King. He's got three passes defended,
24:19
Speaker 1: two interceptions. You got Terrence Mitchell, He's got nine passes
24:23
Speaker 1: defended one interception. You got Lonnie Johnson Junior, four passes defended,
24:28
Speaker 1: three interceptions. They got some guys over there, justin Reid,
24:31
Speaker 1: Eric Murray. I mean, again, like we mentioned, this is
24:33
Speaker 1: the NFL. Guys aren't bad in the NFL. Teams are
24:38
Speaker 1: bad in the NFL. So they got some guys who
24:40
Speaker 1: who can call some turnovers. Yeah. Absolutely, this is the
24:43
Speaker 1: thing that they do. And you said at the beginning
24:44
Speaker 1: of the podcast, as long as the Seahawks and when
24:46
Speaker 1: you said aren't reckless with the football and decision making,
24:49
Speaker 1: I think they should be good there. Justin Reid's probably
24:52
Speaker 1: when I looked at the film, one of their bigger
24:54
Speaker 1: playmakers in the secondary, I think he does a lot
24:56
Speaker 1: for them. And they take the football away from the
24:58
Speaker 1: ball staring them, they're gonna come down with it. So
25:00
Speaker 1: we'll see what the Seahawks can do. The last matchup
25:02
Speaker 1: Won went to take a look at is Jonathan Greenard
25:04
Speaker 1: and Jacob Martin versus the Seahawks offensive line. Similar to
25:07
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, the Texans don't really get after the quarterback
25:09
Speaker 1: with high sack numbers. They got twenty six on the season.
25:12
Speaker 1: Second year player Jonathan Greenard has eight of those in
25:16
Speaker 1: eight sacks in nine games played. He's also got twenty
25:19
Speaker 1: seven tackles, nine TFLs, two four stumbles and three passes defended,
25:23
Speaker 1: so he's doing well there. Former Seahawks Jacob Martin he's
25:26
Speaker 1: also turning a pretty good player and been successful there.
25:29
Speaker 1: He's trade to Houston if you guys remember the Jadeveon
25:32
Speaker 1: Clowney trade, excuse me, and he's second in the team
25:35
Speaker 1: in sacks. He's got four of those. He also has
25:37
Speaker 1: twenty tackles, five tackles for loss, and two four stumbles.
25:40
Speaker 1: So those two guys are are doing some nice things.
25:43
Speaker 1: They're not gonna get after the quarterback and crazy numbers,
25:46
Speaker 1: but these are guys you want to stop and they're
25:48
Speaker 1: effective when they have their opportunities in certain pass us situations.
25:51
Speaker 1: So stay out a third and long, and I think
25:53
Speaker 1: the Seahawks offensive line will hopefully stop these guys because
25:56
Speaker 1: they're banged up too. So this s a matchup that
25:58
Speaker 1: we'll have to look throughout the week and see how
26:00
Speaker 1: things are progressing. Because the Seahawks offensive line did struggle
26:03
Speaker 1: a little bit last week. Jacob Martin's playing some good football. Man.
26:07
Speaker 1: He's one of the guys. When I put on the film,
26:09
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I see I see Jake Barton,
26:11
Speaker 1: I see you. All right, man, how are they going
26:13
Speaker 1: to get this thing done? Here's your path to victory?
26:17
Speaker 1: After forty five waits for the snaff, Michael Dickson puts
26:21
Speaker 1: it down. That kick is away. If that kick is gone,
26:26
Speaker 1: it's gone. It's a pass to victory. On Hawk Talk,
26:30
Speaker 1: get after these guys from the first snap up. Get
26:32
Speaker 1: after them from snap number one. They don't really do
26:35
Speaker 1: anything well offensively, and they're dead last in almost every category.
26:39
Speaker 1: You gotta start from the beginning. I don't care who's
26:41
Speaker 1: playing that quarterback. I don't care if it's Syrar Taylor,
26:43
Speaker 1: I don't care if steven S Mills. Both of them struggled.
26:46
Speaker 1: Both of them are prone to turnovers, and you absolutely
26:48
Speaker 1: need to take the ball away. I think the Seahawks
26:51
Speaker 1: can get two or three interceptions this week, so looking
26:53
Speaker 1: forward to that. But get after those quarterbacks and protect
26:57
Speaker 1: your quarterback please. Russell Wilson was sacked four times and
27:00
Speaker 1: hit eight times last week. The forty nine defensive line
27:03
Speaker 1: is way more talented than the Texans. This needs to
27:07
Speaker 1: be a huge improvement. Russell needs to be back there
27:09
Speaker 1: sitting comfy, sipping t reading bucks. I want my guy.
27:14
Speaker 1: I want this jersey clean. I know we play on turf.
27:16
Speaker 1: Texas play on turf yea, they play on turf two,
27:18
Speaker 1: so no grass marks, But I want that jersey, nice
27:21
Speaker 1: and clean. Man protect Russell Wilson absolutely and staying along
27:24
Speaker 1: with Russ. I want to see the same rust we
27:26
Speaker 1: saw last week. He was getting the ball out quick,
27:28
Speaker 1: he was taking the shots when they were there, taking
27:30
Speaker 1: the defense gave to him. He's playing consistent, played the
27:32
Speaker 1: best game since his injury, so I'm looking forward to
27:35
Speaker 1: seeing that. Also want to see DK and Tyler. They
27:38
Speaker 1: need eat eight targets apiece, eight targets a piece at least.
27:41
Speaker 1: I don't think the secondary can contain those guys. We
27:43
Speaker 1: saw what happens when they get their targets and they
27:45
Speaker 1: get their opportunities, they're gonna make play. So I definitely
27:48
Speaker 1: want to see DK and Tyler involved early and often.
27:52
Speaker 1: With that, I also want to see them run the football.
27:54
Speaker 1: The Texans I've had trouble stopping to run all year
27:56
Speaker 1: they ranked dead last where there's ap could be shot
27:59
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