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Chuck & Buck 2-9 Hour 3: MMQB with Hugh Millen · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: hol Grin and Hugh Millin.
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Speaker 3: Oh, good morning, and welcome into this historic edition on
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Speaker 3: Monday Morning Quarterback right here on Chucking Back in the mornings.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 3: You woke up this morning, your favorite football team, world
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Speaker 3: champions of the National Football League. You woke up this
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Speaker 3: morning and you had your normal blueberry.
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Speaker 2: Muffin breakfast, and guess what it was?
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Speaker 3: A Super Bowl champion blueberry muffin breakfast is what it was.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't just your run of the mill. That wasn't
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Speaker 2: just butter.
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Speaker 3: That was super butter that you put on your muffin
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Speaker 3: here this morning. It's just that kind of morning, and
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Speaker 3: we welcome you into the radio show. I hope you
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Speaker 3: have soaked it all up, and I hope that you
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Speaker 3: are ready for more because the celebration continues here in Seattle,
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Speaker 3: and I think it's indefinite. Joining us now to discuss
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Speaker 3: last night's twenty nine thirteen win over the New England Patriots.
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Speaker 3: You've known him for years, You've loved him for years.
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Speaker 3: He is our QB one.
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Speaker 2: Former NFL quarterback, former.
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Speaker 3: You dub quarterback, and our top analysts around these here
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Speaker 3: part Hugh Millin is with us.
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Speaker 2: To talk some Super Bowl. Good morning you. It's a
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Speaker 2: great morning. What a day, what a what an experience,
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Speaker 2: what a feeling. Just just couldn't be more delighted for
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Speaker 2: everybody involved. I mean, if the math works that there's
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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty four seasons of major professional sports
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Speaker 2: and that's the third title for Seattle and so these
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Speaker 2: these are rare. These are rare for any city, they're
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Speaker 2: rare for us. And you know, I think I think
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Speaker 2: the reason why Seattle has such great fans. I do think,
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Speaker 2: you know, I've lived in the four corners of the country.
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Speaker 2: I do think that there's a West Coast or East
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Speaker 2: Coast bias, however you want to describe it. And then
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Speaker 2: on the West Coast, I think there's a Pacific Northwest
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Speaker 2: anti bias. I'm probably screwing up the description, but I
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Speaker 2: think that we feel, you know, up up on the
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Speaker 2: Northwest sometimes kind of forgot and and that's why we
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Speaker 2: were such great fans. And it's just such a fun
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Speaker 2: team to root for. You know, we connect with these teams. Uh,
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Speaker 2: we'll talk about how likable they are and and and
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Speaker 2: you know, just the the degree to which Mike McDonald
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Speaker 2: took Josh McDonnell. Josh McDaniels was on the staff on
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Speaker 2: the New England Patriots for every single Super Bowl win
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Speaker 2: that the Patriots have. He's got six Super Bowl rings.
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Speaker 2: And Mike McDonald just absolutely I mean, took him out
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Speaker 2: to the shed, just took him to school and and
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Speaker 2: you know, and we'll talk about the fourth quarter how
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Speaker 2: that kind of disintegrated what could have been a historic
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Speaker 2: defensive night. But we all know how it played out.
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Speaker 2: Couldn't be more delighted for the team, happy for the team,
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Speaker 2: proud of the team, happy for the twelves. Man, what
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Speaker 2: a night, What a night.
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Speaker 3: Indeed, Hugh Mellan is with us, and uh yeah, I
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Speaker 3: mean normally I just ask an open ended question as
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Speaker 3: we begin our analysis with you and let you go
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Speaker 3: wherever you want to go. And so I'm certainly not
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Speaker 3: going to change that script here. So where does it begin?
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Speaker 3: And maybe it's something you know, granular about the game
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Speaker 3: last night, or maybe it's something just you know, macro
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Speaker 3: about the entire way this thing's operating. I'm curious to
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Speaker 3: see where your analysis begins today.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think that my thought is what I thought
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Speaker 2: after three quarters when the Seahawks were up twelve to nothing,
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Speaker 2: and you know, we're got a big party and we're
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Speaker 2: all just going we are laser focused on the first
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Speaker 2: shutout in Super Bowl history. You know, at that juncture,
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Speaker 2: Drake May had sixty yards passing. Obviously he's on a
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Speaker 2: pace for eighty yards. This is the guy who was
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Speaker 2: the runner up in the for the MVP. Are you
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Speaker 2: kidding me? The seventy eight yard They had seventy eight
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Speaker 2: yards of total offense. I mean they're on a pace
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Speaker 2: to get to have one hundred and four yards for
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Speaker 2: the whole game. And and so you know, now May
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Speaker 2: ends up having you know, goes nineteen to twenty five
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Speaker 2: or two hundred and thirty five yards in just the
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Speaker 2: fourth quarter. And we know all the circumstances. But I
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Speaker 2: think just the degree to what you know, watching the tape,
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Speaker 2: the thought about the Legion of Boom. When I studied
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Speaker 2: the Legion of Boom. You know, they they played that
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Speaker 2: cover three and they had in my opinion, they had
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Speaker 2: better players. They just you know, things were more simple.
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Speaker 2: This defense has great players, I don't think quite to
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Speaker 2: the level of the Legion of Boom, but they they
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Speaker 2: play a more complicated defense. They play more tied together.
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Speaker 2: They you know, you know, last night Mike McDonald, he
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Speaker 2: he pulled out here. They're talking about how Seattle can
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Speaker 2: get the pressure with the four man rush. And you
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Speaker 2: know what, the of the six acts, five of them
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Speaker 2: were just a four man rush. But they they brought
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Speaker 2: a dB on ten plays and the Patriots, Drake May
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Speaker 2: was five to ten twenty two yards an interception of
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Speaker 2: sack passerrating US of seventeen. If you just drop back
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Speaker 2: and throw it into the stands, you're passer rating is
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Speaker 2: thirty nine point six. So, I mean, just little you
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Speaker 2: talk about granularity. You know, they just dialed up blitzes
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Speaker 2: like we haven't seen and Josh mccannals didn't have an
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Speaker 2: answer and then he'd back off into zones and a
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Speaker 2: variety of zones. And so there is a sophistication tied
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Speaker 2: together component when they play when they play z own defense,
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's so much detail about it, but if
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Speaker 2: I try and summarize it, they're showing you a lot
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Speaker 2: of unusual stuff there they uh, and then they put
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Speaker 2: the players in the right position and uh. Sometimes I
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Speaker 2: freeze the tape and I and I'm and I'm going,
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Speaker 2: what what's what is dra Drake May looking at uh?
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Speaker 2: Uh and he's got there's nothing. Yeah, you know, they're
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Speaker 2: just perfectly they're they're they're perfectly positioned in zone defense.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know, it's it's a really uh complicated defense,
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Speaker 2: and it's so taught, it's taught so brilliantly and obviously
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Speaker 2: executed brilliantly as well.
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Speaker 4: You, I mean, I want you to go a little
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Speaker 4: further on that, just because I mean, you're saying super complicated.
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Speaker 4: What about it makes it super complic caause I mean,
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Speaker 4: is it timing of when they're sending blitzes? Is it
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Speaker 4: just being literally down to the foot in the exact
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Speaker 4: place where you need to be, or is there is
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Speaker 4: it that coaching part that you're talking about where he's saying, hey, now,
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Speaker 4: if this is happening, then this is the right place
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Speaker 4: to be versus if this is happening, then this is
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Speaker 4: the right place to be. And what is it that
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Speaker 4: makes it so complicated?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So let's take uh, let's take the
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Speaker 2: second sack. Uh and and and this was the NFL
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Speaker 2: had exactly three point hs seconds. This is Witherspoon coming up. Witherspoon.
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Speaker 2: It's a trips to Seattle's perspective, it's trips left. And
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Speaker 2: Witherspoon is not over the inside the inside guy at
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Speaker 2: the three. He's over the middle guy of three. He's
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Speaker 2: got a long way to go to the quarterback. And
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Speaker 2: and here the the Seahawks show a six guys up
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Speaker 2: and that's not kaled in Witherspoon. Witherspoon is again he's
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Speaker 2: over not number three, which would be close to the ball,
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Speaker 2: he's over number two and off six yards and and
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Speaker 2: so if you just calculate what's the shortest distance, are
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Speaker 2: two points A to B, Like, it's a long way
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Speaker 2: to go, But there's six guys up and on the
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Speaker 2: line scrimmage. You got Ernest Jones. He backs out of there,
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Speaker 2: and then now they run a stunt inside and uh,
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Speaker 2: and so the guard uh, he gets pulled inside, the
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Speaker 2: tackle pulls out and here comes Witherspoon from a long
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Speaker 2: way away. But he's he's got the turbo button. He
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Speaker 2: just shot out of a cannon. And and make Drake
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Speaker 2: May could have got rid of the ball. Three point
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Speaker 2: zero seconds is plenty of time. The average uh throwing
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Speaker 2: the balls under three seconds. But Seattle's they're playing five
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Speaker 2: guys in zone. I mean, that is crazy to do that.
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Speaker 2: And they have a cloud to the weak side. Cloud
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Speaker 2: means the corner is in the flat, the safety's over
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Speaker 2: the top to to May's left side. They're playing zone
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Speaker 2: with just five guys Like that doesn't make sense if
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Speaker 2: you drew up on the whiteboard. But it's like all
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Speaker 2: the guys know where they are. Ernest Jones, he pops off.
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Speaker 2: He's defending the right guy. And and so now the
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Speaker 2: combination of a very confusing front, you know, backing out
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Speaker 2: running a cup, a twist to get just the right
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Speaker 2: action by the offense of line to open up the
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Speaker 2: b gap between the gardener tackle, and here comes with Uspoon. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's more disguised because he's coming from a long way,
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Speaker 2: but he has the athleticism, he has the tenacity to
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Speaker 2: hit that thing like a meteor, like a lightning bolt
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Speaker 2: coming in and then boom, he just swallows up Drake
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Speaker 2: May for a big sack. So you know that's one play.
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Speaker 2: What do you want him to go through? Like thirty seven?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm here, you know, but like that's it's
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Speaker 2: just like on a play by play basis, you are
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Speaker 2: just putting the screws on these guys, on Drake May
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Speaker 2: and on and on. Josh McDaniel. Josh McDaniel is like
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Speaker 2: like after that game is like, I don't even want
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Speaker 2: him as a GA at Washington for the Huskies. No, no, no,
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Speaker 2: we can get another GA. GA is a graduate assistant, unpaid,
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Speaker 2: you know, like it's like crazy.
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Speaker 3: HEU Melon his with us our QB one Monday Morning
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Speaker 3: Quarterback Session twenty nine. The Seahawks win the Super Bowl
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Speaker 3: over the New England Patriots and defensively dominated at least
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Speaker 3: through three quarters, but for the most part throughout the
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Speaker 3: entire game. And Chris Collins said something that I mentioned
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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago. I don't know if there's
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Speaker 3: one thing more valuable to any win in the NFL
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Speaker 3: than that statement that you put pressure. If you can
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Speaker 3: get pressure with four man, you're probably gonna win that
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Speaker 3: game that day.
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Speaker 2: That's just how valuable it is.
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Speaker 3: And yet I would ask you somebody that watched the
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Speaker 3: All twenty two last night in preparation for today, it
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Speaker 3: just felt to me like Drake May could not find
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Speaker 3: anybody open in the secondary.
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Speaker 2: So maybe it was the secondary that set the tone.
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Speaker 2: Or do you still give the credit to the pass
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Speaker 2: rush up front? Chuck. That's a great theme, you know.
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Speaker 2: That's one of my themes in the study is is yeah, okay,
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Speaker 2: the first the sacon you rush four, but the sack
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Speaker 2: happened at four point four seconds. That's an eternity. Yeah, uh,
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Speaker 2: And and so you had to have Ernest Jones covering
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Speaker 2: the tight end on what's called this a stick route,
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Speaker 2: and you know, so it's it's may he's not going
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Speaker 2: to his right guy. Now he's looking at other guys.
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Speaker 2: Everybody's covered. There's uh uh, the the one where Riley
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Speaker 2: Mills had uh uh, the sack they just which we
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Speaker 2: said the left guard for the Patriots is the worst
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Speaker 2: guy on their team. Sorry to be so blunt. I'm
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Speaker 2: just trying to get through this. And you know, but
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Speaker 2: they're playing they played man and man on that well,
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Speaker 2: there's there's a little banjo which is an in in
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Speaker 2: and out man concept between uh, Julian Love and Drake Thomas.
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Speaker 2: You know, just little nuances of like it's man and man.
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Speaker 2: There's there's nobody there. You know, he held the ball
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Speaker 2: three point two seconds. There's a play where the NFL
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Speaker 2: had it at five point zero seconds on a sack,
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Speaker 2: just a four man rush. I'm looking, you know, uh uh.
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Speaker 2: The pages come out on what's called the trips left
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Speaker 2: nub nub tight end means to the right.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: There's a tight end in line with the tackle. So
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Speaker 2: the Seahawks they push, they push their coverage over to
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Speaker 2: the trips away from the nub and so they get
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Speaker 2: a big flow and they clouded over to Rek Wooling.
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Speaker 2: And there's a point when I freeze the tape. When
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Speaker 2: when when Drake May hit his back foot and took
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Speaker 2: his first hitch because he's trying to run a play
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Speaker 2: called a dagger dagger left where the widest receiver runs
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Speaker 2: a deep ind at about seventeen yards. And I'm looking
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Speaker 2: at what Drake May was saying. Right there, I stopped
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Speaker 2: the tape on his first hitch. That's when the ball
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Speaker 2: should be coming out. Well, the Seahawks have pushed the
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Speaker 2: receivers to the trip side. They're clouding, which is requilling
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Speaker 2: again redirecting the number one receiver and meaning the widest receiver.
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Speaker 2: And now at the junk. The ball was on the
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Speaker 2: twenty seven yard line, and both Greek Wollen and he's
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Speaker 2: the he's what's called the flat defender to the outside,
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Speaker 2: and nick Emon Worry is that what's called the curl
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Speaker 2: defender the next zone in towards the ball. The flat
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Speaker 2: and the curl. Both Greek Wollen and uh nick Em
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Speaker 2: and Worry are at the exactly the thirty seven yard line.
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Speaker 2: They both were treated. They're at the same depth. They're
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Speaker 2: at ten yards and the spacing of them is dead
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Speaker 2: perfect to stop the dagger, dead perfect where Emon Warri's
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Speaker 2: on the inside. And by the way you watch him
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Speaker 2: backpedal and then turn and crossover to get to that spot.
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Speaker 2: You know. So now you're if you're Drake May, you
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Speaker 2: got nick nick em and Worry. We've talked for years
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Speaker 2: about him one hundred percentile on the height forty times
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Speaker 2: and Armleke the ninety nine percent and vertical and uh
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Speaker 2: that's Greek Wolan nick Emon Worry. In the relative as
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Speaker 2: under score that the the NFL subscribes to Nick m
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Speaker 2: and Worry is a ten point zero. He's a perfect ten.
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Speaker 2: He's like Oga Corbett in his In the the RIS
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Speaker 2: database goes back to nineteen eighty seven, Nick Ammin Worrey
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Speaker 2: has the number one vertical, the number one long jump
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Speaker 2: uh four three eight forty. I gotta, I don't know
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Speaker 2: where that ranks, but I know it's high. I'm not positives.
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Speaker 2: Number one is not is number one in terms of
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Speaker 2: his his reps on the bench. So like he's a big, long, fast,
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Speaker 2: explosive strong like and and so you're Drake May and
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Speaker 2: you're going those cats are freaks out there. You want
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Speaker 2: me to throw into that? Yeah, I mean, you know, man.
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Speaker 5: So so uh it's you know, so he holds about
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Speaker 5: five seconds, you get a construct what you know, you
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Speaker 5: might call it a constriction sacks where all four guys
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Speaker 5: just squeeze the pocket and just like a freaking big
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Speaker 5: old constrictor.
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Speaker 2: I mean, just squeeze the life out of him. So so, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's not just the four man rush. It's that in
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Speaker 2: each and every case. And I got more of on
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Speaker 2: the notes. But what's the takeaway? The takeaway is that, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're getting sacks. I mean, uh, but several of these
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Speaker 2: are there's plenty of time to throw. It's that the
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Speaker 2: Seahawks have the first and usually the second guy covered,
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Speaker 2: and so May has nowhere to go with the ball.
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Speaker 4: So just I mean to sum that up, I mean,
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Speaker 4: would you say, yesterday they almost broke a record for sacks, right,
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Speaker 4: I mean, I guess they tied it with six because
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Speaker 4: they took that.
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Speaker 2: They broke a record for coverage.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, did you so you would say that it was
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Speaker 4: those sacks were more on the hands of well, there
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Speaker 4: was nowhere to throw it, because I was thinking the
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Speaker 4: same thing to some degree of man, he's got to
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Speaker 4: get rid of that. I mean there was a couple
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Speaker 4: of those most certainly who covered sacks. Would you say
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Speaker 4: lion's share of more?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think that. I think Derek Hall had a
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Speaker 2: relatively fast you know, it's a two point eight seconds set,
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Speaker 2: but but that was you know that the movement was
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Speaker 2: caused by Leonard Williams because he just stoned the right guard,
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Speaker 2: I mean, right up the field, and May's got to
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Speaker 2: get up and get up in the pocket. And and
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Speaker 2: Derek Hall, he you know, he could have been up
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Speaker 2: the field, but he senses a win. I didn't think
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Speaker 2: it was a stunt, but he folds back into the middle,
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Speaker 2: apparently in reaction and awareness that okay, here comes the
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Speaker 2: quarterback up the pocket. He now folds back to the inside.
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Speaker 2: It looks like a stunt. I don't think it was
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Speaker 2: a stunt, but any event, you know, that was two
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Speaker 2: point eight seconds. But but that's a team sack. You know,
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Speaker 2: Derek Hall gets the sack. That was the that was
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Speaker 2: the punch out right, the fumble and and that Murphy got.
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Speaker 2: But you know, Larryn Williams, He's not gonna end up
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Speaker 2: in the stat sheet about it, but uh yeah, I would.
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Speaker 2: But but in looking at these uh yeah yeah, multiple
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Speaker 2: sacks where the quarterback held the ball over four seconds.
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Speaker 2: So so I think it's I think what Mike McDonald
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Speaker 2: if you asked him, I'd say it as a compliment
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Speaker 2: that that one begets the other, you know, and and
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Speaker 2: so you can't have one without the other.
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Speaker 3: Well maybe it was a cop out. Greg sort of
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Speaker 3: suggested it. I don't think he's terribly terribly wrong about
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Speaker 3: ken Walker had a really good game last night, but
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Speaker 3: it kind of felt like everybody there knew the defense
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Speaker 3: won that game. But it was easier to pick the
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Speaker 3: running back who had one hundred and sixty yards from scrimmage.
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Speaker 3: If Hugh Millan would have had to have picked one
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Speaker 3: standout from the defense last night to give the MVP.
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Speaker 2: Two, who would you have given it to? That hurts
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Speaker 2: well frequently. I mean I thought that Cam Chancell was
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Speaker 2: the MVP of the of the last Super Bowl. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: they gave it to Malcolm Smith because you know, for
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Speaker 2: a defensive guy to get it, you got you got
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Speaker 2: to you gotta pad the stats, right, There's got to
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Speaker 2: be something he had to pick six, And I think
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Speaker 2: maybe he was involved in a fumble, force fumble or whatever.
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Speaker 2: So so that it's easy to say, okay, that's the highlighted.
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Speaker 2: I'm really impressed with with Devin Witherspoon, how he played
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Speaker 2: and Nickel and and the Dime. He played a lot
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Speaker 2: inside because Seattle was able to go to Dime and
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Speaker 2: he drops inside. So so I mean the you know
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Speaker 2: or uh, poor Drake may you know when they go
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Speaker 2: to when Seattle goes to dime, they have the the
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Speaker 2: four the four deep defense and a lot of the
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Speaker 2: coverages they want to play. Put a real stress on
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Speaker 2: the flat defenders. They got to cover a lot of grounds.
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Speaker 2: If you're playing four deep and three under, well those
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Speaker 2: those three under guys can't spot drop. They have to match.
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Speaker 2: They have to match to the flat because otherwise they're
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Speaker 2: too big a holes inside and and depending on what
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Speaker 2: hash you are on, they are often they have a
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Speaker 2: lot of space to run to and uh and and
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Speaker 2: have to make tackles and and so they're asking a
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Speaker 2: lot of Witherspoon. He was he was phenomenal. So maybe Witherspoon. Yeah,
20:03
Speaker 2: maybe Derek Hall because as I said, you know, the
20:06
Speaker 2: uh he brought the violence. Yeah, yeah, the violence and
20:09
Speaker 2: getting a couple of sacks and forcing them fumble. But
20:13
Speaker 2: I would say this Ernest Jones watching the tape, I didn't.
20:16
Speaker 2: I don't think it hit me watching it live. But
20:19
Speaker 2: Ernest Jones had an answer answer to the test. He
20:23
Speaker 2: had all he had, all the question. I mean, he
20:24
Speaker 2: was just he he was hitting the gap. He had
20:28
Speaker 2: a great feel in there, in there and they're uh
20:32
Speaker 2: stopping the run. I mean Patriot DB's had had forty
20:37
Speaker 2: two yards and uh yards rushing total. I think on
20:43
Speaker 2: thirteen rushes maybe check me on that, but forty two
20:47
Speaker 2: yards total from running backs that they are two They're
20:51
Speaker 2: only runs of any consequence were the uh they had
20:56
Speaker 2: a nine yard toss where they had west Over, our
20:58
Speaker 2: buddy west Over from Misquah and then Mountsaille High School
21:06
Speaker 2: and the Washington Huskies. Their best run of the day
21:10
Speaker 2: was following west Over on a toss. They get nine
21:12
Speaker 2: yards in that third quarter. I don't know why it
21:14
Speaker 2: took them that long, and then they had a fly
21:16
Speaker 2: sweep for seven yards. All the rest when they tried
21:19
Speaker 2: to run the middle the French seven and Ernest Jones
21:23
Speaker 2: was was just on it. I mean he didn't take
21:26
Speaker 2: a false step the whole damn night.
21:29
Speaker 3: So yeah, all right, Hugh Millan is with us our
21:32
Speaker 3: Monday Morning Quarterback. We've got to talk about the offense
21:35
Speaker 3: and the way Ken Walker finished out this game.
21:38
Speaker 2: This season for the Seahawks, they are world champs.
21:42
Speaker 3: They wont twenty nine to thirteen over the New England Patriots,
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Speaker 3: and all of the Pacific Northwest is celebrating today. We'll
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Speaker 3: continue the conversation with Hugh next Monday Morning Quarterback only
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Speaker 3: on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Speaker 6: He's had his own forty four quarterback, second eleven three
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Speaker 6: in the guard. Wine's up one cast down in the
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Speaker 6: middle of a tenner second half, a pretty odd line
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Speaker 6: coming up Nidal the forty Look the return light here.
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Speaker 6: Now it's Julia Robbin's Hound of Umb coming here sideline
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Speaker 6: going into Patriot territory, and he's not cut of UN's
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Speaker 6: about the thirty two. It's the second turnover by the
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Speaker 6: second year Patriot quarterback. Great name and another great star
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Speaker 6: for Seattle teeth in Patriot territory here in the Super
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Speaker 6: Bowl sixteen.
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Speaker 3: That's where I wrote down Game OVA right there, right
22:40
Speaker 3: there after that call from Kevin Harland on Westwood One
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Speaker 3: Seahawks when the Super Bowl twenty nine thirteen over the
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Speaker 3: New England Patriots. You've tuned in for analysis from Hugh
22:51
Speaker 3: mellanire this morning. We'll get to Hugh in a second,
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Speaker 3: but I do want to let you know to go
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23:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guaranteed, and you might as well go collect
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Speaker 4: bet down for them to win it next year.
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Speaker 2: Light as well. I mean, not all of it, but
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Speaker 2: some of it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean this point, you're playing with house money.
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Speaker 4: I think it's plus eight fifty, which is actually second,
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Speaker 4: which I don't understand altogether. The Rams are the number
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Speaker 4: one right now after the rain, Yeah, right after you guys. Hey,
23:30
Speaker 4: how's how's vacation treating you?
23:32
Speaker 1: Hey?
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Speaker 2: You really feel? Yeah? Exactly?
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Speaker 4: You got any stogies? Oh you guys didn't You didn't
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Speaker 4: celebrate last night?
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Speaker 2: That's right?
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Speaker 4: But cann you can go to DraftKings and put put
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Speaker 4: down some Ducats at plus eight fifty for the Seahawks
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Speaker 4: to repeat.
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Speaker 2: By the way, my prediction was twenty seven to thirteen
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Speaker 2: for this game. Pretty close. Yeah, it's pretty good.
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Speaker 3: Pretty close twenty nine thirteen. You mellinus with us here.
23:52
Speaker 3: He even came close. He doesn't make predictions. But what
23:55
Speaker 3: were his last words to us on Friday. I'll talk
23:58
Speaker 3: to you on Monday and we'll be talking about a win.
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Speaker 2: How about that?
24:03
Speaker 3: How about Millen putting the stamp on the week with
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Speaker 3: that statement on Friday.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that I picked this favorite in the Super Bowl
24:10
Speaker 2: to win with no score. That's not going to make
24:14
Speaker 2: the biggest Hall of Fame shot.
24:17
Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about ken Walker. He was named MVP
24:20
Speaker 3: and I get it, and he did. He played outstanding.
24:23
Speaker 3: I think he sparked the offense certainly last night. But
24:26
Speaker 3: what I heard, and I can't verify this, but this
24:29
Speaker 3: is what I heard last night that he set a
24:31
Speaker 3: record for most yards in a Super Bowl rushed outside
24:35
Speaker 3: the tackles. So somebody kept that stat last night and
24:38
Speaker 3: said that no one in Super Bowl history gained more
24:40
Speaker 3: yards in a Super Bowl than what ken Walker did.
24:43
Speaker 3: Last night outside the tackles and you know we've talked
24:46
Speaker 3: about you know, the run the block, the zone blocking
24:50
Speaker 3: scheme that was coming in here and this should be
24:52
Speaker 3: perfect for ken Walker and it wasn't perfect. He did
24:55
Speaker 3: not have a perfect season, but down toward the end
24:58
Speaker 3: of the year, him hitting the out side Hugh was
25:01
Speaker 3: just magic for him this year. So I don't know
25:04
Speaker 3: if that just took him time to figure it out,
25:07
Speaker 3: or or Clint Kubiak time to get him on the outside,
25:10
Speaker 3: or what the case may be, but ken Walker has
25:13
Speaker 3: turned into a demon off the edge.
25:15
Speaker 2: Well he's got the bursts. So uh that that wide
25:18
Speaker 2: zone you're you're you know his read he's looking at
25:21
Speaker 2: the end man and and generally when they're running that
25:24
Speaker 2: that's to the tight end side or the two tight
25:26
Speaker 2: end side, he's looking if they're they hook that end. Uh,
25:30
Speaker 2: then then he looks what it's the next guy in
25:34
Speaker 2: the next block in If it's a three technique in
25:36
Speaker 2: an overfront, you read you read that, and and the
25:40
Speaker 2: way it's taught is hey, full full steps, don't shorten
25:44
Speaker 2: your scride, make your SEVT decision after the third step,
25:47
Speaker 2: make your cut on the fifth step. If you want
25:49
Speaker 2: to go north, get north. If you want to bounce
25:52
Speaker 2: it because you think you can get to the edge,
25:54
Speaker 2: then go well, you have to have some bursts to
25:56
Speaker 2: get to the edge to make it credible. And if
26:00
Speaker 2: you don't have the burst, you're gonna you're gonna look
26:02
Speaker 2: and say, you're gonna be more likely to run back inside.
26:04
Speaker 2: So he's been able to get to the outside. They
26:07
Speaker 2: on one of his best ones, they didn't stretch it.
26:10
Speaker 2: They just tossed it to get him the ball in
26:12
Speaker 2: his hands real quick. That and you know that takes
26:14
Speaker 2: away some of the play acts and things you can do,
26:17
Speaker 2: but it gets them just a tad faster out there
26:19
Speaker 2: on the edge. And and and so uh yeah, the
26:24
Speaker 2: first the first the first quarter, the first six running
26:29
Speaker 2: plays were all outside zone. Now the Patriots have a
26:32
Speaker 2: better defense. We talked during the week, Hey, if you
26:35
Speaker 2: go back, if I simplificate, simplify it. I just say
26:38
Speaker 2: against the forty nine ers, they went wanted to run
26:40
Speaker 2: wide on the stretch. Against the Rams, they wanted to
26:42
Speaker 2: run inside. Which will it be? I think logic we
26:46
Speaker 2: were saying it dictates that with those deep, great defensive
26:49
Speaker 2: tackles inside, Uh Williams and Barmore. I might have got,
26:55
Speaker 2: isn't it, Williams Christian Barmore. Yeah, yeah, yeah that that
26:59
Speaker 2: you know, maybe the better course is to try and
27:02
Speaker 2: get outside. And so I I know, I was even
27:05
Speaker 2: saying after the first quarter they haven't tried to run
27:07
Speaker 2: inside one time. Now the first time they did it,
27:10
Speaker 2: I thought they they ran inside well. And part of
27:13
Speaker 2: it is they have changed the the style of running
27:17
Speaker 2: for uh for uh uh Canine. He is aligning just
27:22
Speaker 2: a half yard deeper than he was in some cases
27:26
Speaker 2: is closer to a full yard. But his steps on
27:28
Speaker 2: those those inside runs, he he there's a little bit
27:32
Speaker 2: of a delay step where he he opens his hips
27:35
Speaker 2: and shoulders as if he's running to the outside zone,
27:39
Speaker 2: and then he closes his hips back and so that
27:42
Speaker 2: they're parallel to the line of scrimmage, and and and
27:46
Speaker 2: and he's got more distance from the line. And I
27:49
Speaker 2: think what the Seahawks have discovered is that fits his
27:51
Speaker 2: running style because he can come out he just kind
27:54
Speaker 2: of surveys. It's a little bit of a Chris Collinsworth
27:57
Speaker 2: nailed it. It's a Levy and Bell type of style.
27:59
Speaker 2: We we've been talking about this for the last few
28:01
Speaker 2: weeks that that he's deeper and then it allows everything
28:06
Speaker 2: to see how is the defense flowing. Then when he
28:09
Speaker 2: sees a crease, then he's got the burst and the
28:12
Speaker 2: strength to get through. What I mean by strength, there's
28:15
Speaker 2: a defensive lineman who may be coming off a block
28:18
Speaker 2: and has a you know, a pretty good shot on him,
28:20
Speaker 2: maybe a shoulder, uh, maybe you know, a good arm,
28:23
Speaker 2: but he'll he'll run right through an arm tackle, right
28:25
Speaker 2: through his tip bats because he's so strong. So and
28:28
Speaker 2: then he's got the burst in the second layer. So uh,
28:31
Speaker 2: you know, in the screen pass, how big was the
28:33
Speaker 2: screen pass on that play? Beautifully designed jas N in
28:36
Speaker 2: the backfield, you know, run him on a seam rout
28:39
Speaker 2: that I thought when I saw it, I'll go, oh
28:41
Speaker 2: my god, like like it looked like he's throw it
28:44
Speaker 2: to jays N on the seam to the left. But
28:46
Speaker 2: but they had designed that to be window dressing. And
28:49
Speaker 2: they get the instead of JSN out of the backfield
28:52
Speaker 2: up the left seam, they're throwing the screen to the right,
28:55
Speaker 2: and you know, and and Canaine made a great initial
28:58
Speaker 2: move to make a guy misk up the sideline make
29:00
Speaker 2: some yards. So yeah, the outside was uh there's one
29:05
Speaker 2: outside run he had the Is it the thirty Yardah,
29:08
Speaker 2: it was the thirty yard er, not the twenty nine
29:10
Speaker 2: because back to back there. But they they did a
29:13
Speaker 2: pin and poll where they're pulling and they had Gray's
29:16
Speaker 2: abel and he's trying to pull out in front and
29:20
Speaker 2: uh he he got pushed back. It was just a
29:22
Speaker 2: difficult angle for any lineman and Canine had to bow
29:27
Speaker 2: back behind the line of scrimamage lose ground. At that point,
29:30
Speaker 2: if you said freeze, who what what running back is
29:34
Speaker 2: gonna manufacture anything out of this? And you're like, oh no,
29:38
Speaker 2: this is already. This is the onset of the play.
29:41
Speaker 2: This is a disaster, like we're running away back to
29:44
Speaker 2: our own goal line. But he bows around that block
29:47
Speaker 2: and has the burst to go up the sideline. Make
29:49
Speaker 2: guys miss how he turned that into a thirty yard er?
29:52
Speaker 2: You know? Is I guess one of the reason. That's
29:54
Speaker 2: how you get an MVP, a Super Bowl MVP. And
29:56
Speaker 2: then you know, when you're sixty, they can mark you
29:58
Speaker 2: out of a little cradle on the sideline, you know,
30:01
Speaker 2: like a magic show like they did. Do you see
30:03
Speaker 2: all those guys popping out there like rabbits out of
30:05
Speaker 2: a hat on the MVPs. That was kind of cool.
30:08
Speaker 2: So CA nine gets to do that in like forty years.
30:10
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, is.
30:13
Speaker 4: He a guy that you want him to sign back?
30:15
Speaker 4: I mean, right now, Zach Charboney is going to be
30:18
Speaker 4: recovering from an ACL. I don't think that anybody has
30:22
Speaker 4: crazy high hopes for George Halani and so I mean,
30:25
Speaker 4: is this kind of a hey, go get this guy back,
30:28
Speaker 4: considering he has the ability to go out and test
30:30
Speaker 4: free agency.
30:32
Speaker 2: Well, the salary CAP's going up to three hundred million,
30:34
Speaker 2: so the percentage of us the cap that will be
30:39
Speaker 2: eating up. I think the franchise tag is fourteen million.
30:42
Speaker 2: That's an option for you that seems like it would
30:45
Speaker 2: be money well spent. You guys know me, I have
30:48
Speaker 2: never wavered on my assessment of Cannine. I've said that
30:53
Speaker 2: that there's only ten positions in the draft separating he
30:57
Speaker 2: and Sharbonnay. I believe it is they're both second rounders.
31:02
Speaker 2: But to me, it's like one's a first rounder and
31:05
Speaker 2: one's a fourth rounder. And so I think he's significantly
31:08
Speaker 2: better than anybody they've had back there for a long time.
31:12
Speaker 2: And you know that's just my eyes and and so
31:17
Speaker 2: you know, you know, we talked, and I know we
31:20
Speaker 2: got to get the other stuff. But my final thought
31:22
Speaker 2: on on Canine for this hour is after the injury
31:26
Speaker 2: against the forty nine ers, we break up the discussion. Hey, listen,
31:30
Speaker 2: nobody wanted Sharbonna to get hurt, not on the human
31:33
Speaker 2: side for Zach, not on the the depth part for
31:36
Speaker 2: the Seahawks. But there is a there is a storyline
31:40
Speaker 2: that is very likely to be written where the Seahawks
31:43
Speaker 2: they are a better football team because Zach Sharbonnay got hurt.
31:47
Speaker 2: That sounds uh, that sounds cruel. I hope you heard
31:50
Speaker 2: the first part of that comment, but that the model
31:54
Speaker 2: was that Canine. I grew up in an era where
31:57
Speaker 2: they always said the best running backs they get better
31:59
Speaker 2: is the gets on. They if they have the stamina,
32:04
Speaker 2: they their eyes, they adjust to the game, they see
32:07
Speaker 2: how the defense is flowing, and they just make better decisions.
32:10
Speaker 2: They run through the defense getting tired. They're strong, they're
32:13
Speaker 2: running through tackles. That was a thing for decades and
32:16
Speaker 2: decades and somehow it's fallen away. And so what happened
32:20
Speaker 2: when Sharbonnay got hurt is we said, hey, we're gonna
32:24
Speaker 2: thrust ourselves in the way back machine. We're going and
32:26
Speaker 2: it's not forty yards forty years. You just go back
32:29
Speaker 2: to twenty years when Shawn Alexander and Ladanian Tomlinson were
32:33
Speaker 2: running like. He's going to be a work horse canine.
32:36
Speaker 2: He's gonna be a work cards in an old school
32:38
Speaker 2: kind of way, and it might be the better for
32:40
Speaker 2: the Seahawks, may be the better for it. And I
32:43
Speaker 2: think that's how it played out, you know. I just
32:47
Speaker 2: think that that he was able to do more carrying
32:51
Speaker 2: all the load than the load would have been with him,
32:54
Speaker 2: and Sharbaday can't prove it, can't falsify it. It's just
32:56
Speaker 2: a thought, but you know, it's something to reflect on.
32:59
Speaker 2: Now that we've seen what can In has been able
33:02
Speaker 2: to do since that injury.
33:04
Speaker 3: We have a lot more to discuss. We're gonna get
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Speaker 3: All right, Hugh, we got a lot more to dive
34:42
Speaker 3: into here. I mean that play we just heard from
34:45
Speaker 3: Kevin Harley was a huge play. I mean the love interception.
34:50
Speaker 3: I mean they were big plays all game long. To
34:52
Speaker 3: Hugh Millan, who loves breaking down plays, what was the
34:56
Speaker 3: play of the game.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to try and get a couple things
35:00
Speaker 2: in here real quick. Okay, So the the audio we
35:02
Speaker 2: just heard the Nuosa touchdown, pretty garden variety. Uh five
35:07
Speaker 2: man zone pressure. So to Drake May's right, you're gonna
35:12
Speaker 2: bring Ernest Jones in to eat up the running backs block,
35:16
Speaker 2: and then you're gonna bring Witherspoon again right through the
35:19
Speaker 2: b gap uh uh and and you you force the
35:23
Speaker 2: fumble and then you drop off boy Mafi on the
35:26
Speaker 2: other side. So that's five. You're gonna you're gonna rush five.
35:30
Speaker 2: You're gonna play zone with six. During the week we
35:32
Speaker 2: talked about, Hey, the Patriots they like to do a
35:36
Speaker 2: zone blitz with three deep and three under. The Seahawks
35:39
Speaker 2: like to do a hybrid uh uh two. Whether it's
35:43
Speaker 2: two deeper, whether it's four deep, it depends on the
35:47
Speaker 2: what is it called a catch or Palm's technique where
35:50
Speaker 2: the corners and and the safeties are looking at the
35:52
Speaker 2: release of number two. That's the slot. If they're in
35:56
Speaker 2: the flat, the corners trigger down, safeties go over the top.
35:59
Speaker 2: If if their their vertical they drop off. It's forty
36:02
Speaker 2: two hundred. So it's a little bit of a hybrid
36:05
Speaker 2: on on that play. That's an example. So they they
36:08
Speaker 2: have that zone blitz. Do you remember when when Jackson
36:12
Speaker 2: Smith and Jigbu caught that slant route to the left
36:15
Speaker 2: and he was like wide open and then he kind
36:17
Speaker 2: of dove at the feet of the safety for like
36:20
Speaker 2: a nice sixteen yard game. Remember that in the game? Yeah, man, man, yeah,
36:25
Speaker 2: on that play, that was the Patriots bringing five under
36:28
Speaker 2: three deep three under. I see we're bringing five three
36:31
Speaker 2: D three under. That's the defense. I said, it's easier
36:34
Speaker 2: for a quarterback to hit Seattle gets boomed, just shred it.
36:37
Speaker 2: There's too many open holes. Even to the point when
36:40
Speaker 2: I coached high school, I go to our defensive coordinator,
36:42
Speaker 2: I say, hey, I think it's it's a lot harder
36:45
Speaker 2: in a quarterback when you do that that two deep
36:49
Speaker 2: zone pressure as opposed to three D three under. Anyways,
36:53
Speaker 2: back to that, I think the contrast was there the
36:57
Speaker 2: Seattle's when when they bring five man pressure and the
37:01
Speaker 2: coverage they play behind it. It caused the quarterback to
37:05
Speaker 2: try and hold the ball more. They get they hit
37:07
Speaker 2: on the arm by Witherspoon and you get to pick six.
37:11
Speaker 2: The Patriots they run a five man's oone pressure, They
37:14
Speaker 2: go to three D three hundred different coverage and Seattle
37:17
Speaker 2: shreds it for a sixteen yard wide open slant. So
37:21
Speaker 2: just a thought there. You asked me to play the game.
37:23
Speaker 2: In my opinion, if I can walk you through this
37:25
Speaker 2: real quick. The fourth quarter, Seattle obviously went up nineteen nothing.
37:32
Speaker 2: The Patriots go down and they score nineteen to seven.
37:35
Speaker 2: Seattle gets the ball, they go three and out. They punt.
37:39
Speaker 2: Now the Patriots have the ball, and you're like, whoa,
37:41
Speaker 2: this is the first time there's a little bit of life,
37:43
Speaker 2: Like if they go down and score at this point,
37:45
Speaker 2: they get the ball with ten forty to go, if
37:47
Speaker 2: they go down and score and make it nineteen to fourteen,
37:51
Speaker 2: and they held momentum and there's you know, seven eight
37:54
Speaker 2: minutes to go. We got a football game, right, you know?
37:58
Speaker 2: There was a against man and a man Drake may
38:01
Speaker 2: he scrambled for what was the game? I think six
38:04
Speaker 2: fourteen yards or something event ten yards, seventeen yards, Okay,
38:08
Speaker 2: and so now the Julian Love interception to me was
38:15
Speaker 2: the play of the game. And on that play, I'll
38:18
Speaker 2: just say this, the bones of that play is a
38:21
Speaker 2: play called eight forty four. Ricky, I'll explain what that means.
38:26
Speaker 2: Eight is the is a post route, so that's the
38:28
Speaker 2: Drake May's left, and then a four route is a
38:31
Speaker 2: deep end. Kurt Warners said that the four route built
38:34
Speaker 2: my house because he was phenomenal at those four outs,
38:37
Speaker 2: those deep in routes. Some Mike would call it a dagger.
38:41
Speaker 2: But and then there's a guy bursting in the flat
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Speaker 2: to the right, going against the as a checkdown to
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Speaker 2: going against those in routes. So the way Seattle covered that,
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Speaker 2: they got Julian Love over the top of the post,
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Speaker 2: they got Kobe Bryant. He drives top down on the
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Speaker 2: on the on the inside four out, the inside in
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Speaker 2: breaking route. You have on one he's covering the outbreaking route.
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Speaker 2: And that's where I think the NFL play by plays
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Speaker 2: got it wrong. They said that that Drake May was
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Speaker 2: trying to throw the post. No, whill you look at
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Speaker 2: his eyes the ground level, he was looking to his right.
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Speaker 2: The post was on his left. He was trying to
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Speaker 2: get the deep in. And what Seattle did this is again,
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Speaker 2: Mike McDonald, you would you have Ernist Jones lining in
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Speaker 2: the middle what would be called the hook zone, and
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Speaker 2: you've got Witherspoon aligned to the outside that would be
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Speaker 2: the curl flat area. But they change responsibilities. Witherspoon goes
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Speaker 2: diagonally back into the middle of the field and Ernest
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Speaker 2: Jones takes the flat even though they're playing zone. They
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Speaker 2: they they switch this and Witherspoon goes right underneath the
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Speaker 2: the dagger route, the four route, the same thing. It's
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Speaker 2: just different terminologies in different playbooks. He gets right underneath
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Speaker 2: that dagger route. And uh. And it's as if somebody said, hey,
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Speaker 2: by the way, you know they're going there. They're gonna
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Speaker 2: call eight forty four ricky. Here, ricky, what's the ricky
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Speaker 2: part that? Uh, that's the opposite of lucky One begins
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Speaker 2: with an R. That means the back or backs go
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Speaker 2: to the right. Uh. And and so in anyway, now
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Speaker 2: you know eight forty four ricky. It's been around a
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Speaker 2: long time. And if you come up to Kurt Warner
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Speaker 2: at a bar, you can say eight forty four, Ricky
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Speaker 2: built your house and you look at it and you go,
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Speaker 2: how do you know that? So so so again. So
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Speaker 2: I thought that was the play of the game. But Buck,
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Speaker 2: you asked her me early, I thought it was a
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Speaker 2: great question. Hey, give some examples of of why this
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Speaker 2: stuff is working on a and and so we've gone
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Speaker 2: through three plays here of different styles, different results and
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Speaker 2: what have you. But the detail of how you like,
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Speaker 2: you go, WHOA watch it the second time? You go,
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Speaker 2: that's cool? How they covered that? And oh, by the way,
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Speaker 2: they gloved it up perfect in zone in zone like
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Speaker 2: they're putting dudes right where Drake May wants to uh
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Speaker 2: to throw the football. And so you get if you
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Speaker 2: if you're tracking with me, you want to disagree, Great,
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Speaker 2: I love it. Throw throw five plays at me. I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna love them all. Say that's your play of the game. Great,
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Speaker 2: I love that play. It's not a zero some game.
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Speaker 2: We can have a lot of play the games. But
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Speaker 2: for me, I thought that was the most important. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I thought the game was over. Yeah, I thought the
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Speaker 2: game was over. You feel like that was it? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: That was it? All right.
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Speaker 3: Hugh Melling as well as Mike Holmgren's gonna join us
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Speaker 3: in our nine o'clock hour more to discuss from last
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Speaker 3: night Super Bowl Championship.
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