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Grinch Week · 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. Playfac go to roll right, jumps it off
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Speaker 1: into the right class to Michael Bumpers, who bounce us
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Speaker 1: off on one tackler gets inside the forty down of
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Speaker 1: the thirty five yard line. Powered by Seahawks dot Com,
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Speaker 1: Matt pump fakes looking at the goal line. He throws
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Speaker 1: it into the end zone. Touchdown. Say Hawks, it's Michael
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Speaker 1: Bumpus with a diving catching the end zone ten yard
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Speaker 1: touchdown reception for Bumpus, and the kid out of Washington
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Speaker 1: State has found himself a place on this team. Now
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Speaker 1: here's your host, NASA Chubby. Welcome into another edition of
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Speaker 1: Hawks Hawk, the preview edition the Seahawks taking on the
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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on the road, a
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Speaker 1: little Christmas Eve action edition. Thanks for joining us. He's
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Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus. I'm NASA Chobe. The Seahawks coming off a
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Speaker 1: loss last Thursday, enjoying a little extended by probably shouldn't
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Speaker 1: call to buy days off, and they're getting into this
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Speaker 1: week back at it, hopefully looking to turn the page,
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Speaker 1: get that bad taste out of their mouth. And write
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Speaker 1: the ship because the playoff are still in contention. We'll
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Speaker 1: tell you about that in a second, but let's get
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Speaker 1: right into it. What's on tap? What's on tapp? Kansas
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Speaker 1: City Bump eleven and three, first place in the AFC West,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not going to sugarcoat it, man, you're the
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Speaker 1: real deal football team. I've been trying to find some
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Speaker 1: weaknesses and I'm still working and we'll share with you
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Speaker 1: what we found. But this is a good football team.
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Speaker 1: Eleven and three big wins. That beat up on Arizona,
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Speaker 1: beat the Chargers twice Tampa Vegas. The most impressive win
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Speaker 1: all year was smacking the forty nine twenty three. Since then,
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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers haven't lost the game, so they've
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Speaker 1: gotten right since that moment, and the chiefs of cap
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Speaker 1: rolling they're actually six and one. They did lose a
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Speaker 1: game to Buffalo and Cincinnati were two good teams and
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Speaker 1: kind of a question will lost to Indie early in
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Speaker 1: the season, But these guys are good. They've won two
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Speaker 1: games recently against Denver in Houston, and one of the
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Speaker 1: few things that stands out to me, Bump, is that
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Speaker 1: they've won a lot of games with them not all blowouts.
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Speaker 1: Three point went over the Titans in overtime NITA late
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter touchdown, ten point went over the Jags, three
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Speaker 1: point went over the Chargers, sixteen points over the Rams
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Speaker 1: without Stafford, three point loss to the Bengals, six point
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Speaker 1: win to a bad Broncos team that they were blowing
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Speaker 1: out like at back in it, and then a six
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Speaker 1: point win over a bad Texans seems a bump. I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: there's a chance. Tell me why after you saw the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs play the Texans last week. While you think the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks have a chance at this one, ah man, if
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Speaker 1: there's a chance, it's turning the football over. The Chiefs
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Speaker 1: have turned that thing over over the past couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: So let's hope that you get some of that and
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Speaker 1: capitalize on those things. You gotta capitalize on them. But
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Speaker 1: let's talk about this Chiefs in Titans game. Excuse me,
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Speaker 1: Chiefs and Texans game. The Texas came into the same
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Speaker 1: one eleven and one. No reason to worry, right, You
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Speaker 1: should never worry about a team with that record, But
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Speaker 1: you are wrong, man. The Texans came out with a
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Speaker 1: seven old lead early on eleven plays, eight yard drive
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Speaker 1: and you're thinking, okay, man, something might happen right here.
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Speaker 1: But the Chiefs answered with a seven place seventy five
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Speaker 1: yards rob of their own, with Jared McKinnon's twenty yard
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Speaker 1: touchdown tying the game at seven. Then both teams exchange touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: but the Chiefs would miss an extra point. Then the
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Speaker 1: Texans would take a fourteen thirteen lead out a half time. Now,
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Speaker 1: so I'm thinking the score can't be right. ESPN after
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Speaker 1: typo something we're wrong. Oh, I mean, no question about it.
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Speaker 1: The Texans man, they're one and eleven. But as a
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Speaker 1: lot of people say, blump, it's the National Football League
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Speaker 1: and anybody can get at any given weekend. It didn't
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Speaker 1: happen there. Chiefs answer in the second half, you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of go back and forth. Texans score, Chiefs score,
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Speaker 1: back and forth. Game Now, the Texans kick a field
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Speaker 1: goal that tied the score twenty four with five minutes left.
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Speaker 1: Chiefs would answer with an eleven play drive, setting a
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Speaker 1: fifty one yard field goal by Harrison Bucker. He would
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Speaker 1: go wide right. They go into overtime. First possession ot
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Speaker 1: Texans get a huge stop, forcing the Chiefs to punt
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Speaker 1: on the first possession so you're thinking and Houston, okay,
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Speaker 1: they might do this thing. Well, first play the next drive.
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Speaker 1: That's why you're a Texans fan. It's pain. I get it.
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Speaker 1: Brank Clark, former seoff, forces phone on Davis Mills. Before
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Speaker 1: you know the next play, Jared M. Kennon is in
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Speaker 1: the end zone. Chiefs win, clinching their seventh straight AFC
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Speaker 1: West title. It's pretty impressive, bout Yeah, that is impressive.
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Speaker 1: Tough way to lose for the Texas man they were
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Speaker 1: in the game, and then the Chiefs is doing what
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Speaker 1: they've done over the past seven years, clinching the division.
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Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes was number the number fifteen we know and love,
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Speaker 1: thirty six to forty one, three to thirty six yards
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Speaker 1: and two touchdowns, completed eighty seven percent of his passes.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen that ever or just not
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Speaker 1: in a very long time. I just don't remember. But
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Speaker 1: that's impressive. It also ran for thirty three yards and
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Speaker 1: one touchdown. Isaiah is a Pacheco. I keep wanting to say.
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Speaker 1: My son asked me how to say his name yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I'm golden. I'm going with Pacheco, but I'll have you
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Speaker 1: right by Sunday, all right, Saturday, all right, and then
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Speaker 1: then I'll relay it to my son because I've been
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Speaker 1: messing him up a whole week. He led all running
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Speaker 1: backs with eighty six yards on fifteen carriers, and the
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Speaker 1: chorus shuff as Kelsey did his thing. He had ten
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Speaker 1: receptions for five yards. Yeah. Man, the Chiefs dominate. That's
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Speaker 1: what they do offensively, because that's what stands out bumping
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Speaker 1: this head to head when you look at these two teams,
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Speaker 1: Seahawks and the Chiefs, number one total offense, number one
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Speaker 1: pass offense, number one points per game at twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: They're doing it, man, and that's the thing that jumps out. Obviously.
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Speaker 1: You know, Patrick Mahomes will get into all the other
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Speaker 1: guys that match up that present matchup issues. But they
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Speaker 1: can score that thing, and they're aggressive, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Defensively, they're okay, they're not bad at all.
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Speaker 1: Fourteen there's middle of the league, so they're obviously getting
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Speaker 1: things done. They stop the run at a pretty high clip,
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Speaker 1: fifth in the league at that past defense twenty second
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Speaker 1: points per a game given a twenty three game. That's
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Speaker 1: nineteenth in the NFL. But you mentioned it they're turning
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Speaker 1: the ball over. The Chiefs have a minus six turnover differential.
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Speaker 1: That's thirty if in the NFL. So if there's a
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Speaker 1: if there's a chink in the armor, if there's a
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Speaker 1: way to get to these Chiefs, it's turning that ball
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Speaker 1: over because you look at that offense bump and it
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Speaker 1: makes you scared. Yeah, and I doubt Pat Mahomes is
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Speaker 1: gonna complete eighty seven percent passes again if he does,
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Speaker 1: be some of the greatest back to back performances ever.
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Speaker 1: But I like our secondary when you compare it to
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Speaker 1: the tech and secondary. So we'll see. Man the Seahawks offensively,
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Speaker 1: they ring fourteenth overall defensively ring twenty nine. Where the
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Speaker 1: Hawks shine on offense points per game, they average twenty
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Speaker 1: five points per game. They ring seventh there, ninth pass
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Speaker 1: twenty second. Comes to the run, Seahaw defense are thirty
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Speaker 1: first against the run, seventeenth against the pass. So we
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Speaker 1: know that the Chiefs love to throw the ball. I'm
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Speaker 1: interested to see if they come out and say, let's
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Speaker 1: test this run game like everyone else has been and
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Speaker 1: see if we can loosen it up that way. End
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Speaker 1: of the day, you know they're going to rely on
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Speaker 1: their playmakers like Pat Mahomes, no question about it. And
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Speaker 1: the other thing lastly on the head to head is
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks turnover there plus one, which is tied for
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Speaker 1: thirteenth in the NFL. The only problem MP is lately
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Speaker 1: they haven't caused many turnovers and they'd been given that
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Speaker 1: thing away. The Seahawks have not had a game this
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Speaker 1: year without a giveaway, which is insane because I believe
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Speaker 1: last year there was nine games where they took care
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Speaker 1: of the rock. So definitely something they're gonna need to
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Speaker 1: get done against the Chiefs. But these guys are old
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Speaker 1: AFC West rivals. Let's know the history, no your history,
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Speaker 1: chiefly the all time series thirty three to nineteen with
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Speaker 1: many of those, like I said, coming when the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: were members of the AFC West. However, last meeting primetime
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Speaker 1: showdown on Sunday Night Football at Louman Field, as the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks beat the Chiefs thirty eight thirty one. It was
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Speaker 1: the first season Patrick Mahomes was a full time starter
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Speaker 1: in his rookie year. Is crazy. I was looking back
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Speaker 1: at his stats from his rookie years, true starting he
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Speaker 1: threw from five thousand fifty touchdowns, twelve picks nine It's gracious.
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Speaker 1: And you know, since then, obviously he's won a Super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: played in another Super Bowl, he hasn't gotten close to
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Speaker 1: really hitting those numbers. So that was an unbelievable year
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Speaker 1: as a rookie. But in that back and forth shootout,
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Speaker 1: Seahawks deliver the final knockout blow. Chris Carson runs over
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Speaker 1: Daniel Sorenson for one yard touchdown, capping off in a
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Speaker 1: play seventy five yard drive. Carson had things going that
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Speaker 1: nine hundred and sixteen yards on twenty seven carries, two touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: and my guy Doug Bablin went off one hundred twenty
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Speaker 1: six yards seven receptions and the game really ceiling touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Other guys got some good work that day too, Nick
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Speaker 1: Vanette at Dixon, Russell Wilson had a decent day eighteen
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Speaker 1: to twenty nine, two seventy one, three touchdowns. So Bump,
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Speaker 1: I'm hoping the Seahawks can generate some of that good energy,
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Speaker 1: some of those good vibes taking on a tough Chiefs team.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's probably gonna have to turn into a shootout.
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Speaker 1: I'm hoping it's not up there in the thirties or forties.
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Speaker 1: But if they can do it in that cold weather,
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Speaker 1: it's probably gonna need about thirty points to beat beast team.
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Speaker 1: So but we'll go back to the NFC West, check
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Speaker 1: on what happened this last week what's the word? And
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks are the NFC West champs again what's the word?
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Speaker 1: In the West? On Hot Talk? Niners are at top
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Speaker 1: of the division, sitting pretty at ten and four, the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks to seven and seven. The Cardinals are four and ten,
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Speaker 1: and the Rams are four and ten as well. The
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Speaker 1: Niners locked up the division last Thursday against the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: on Thursday Night Football. But let's look at the division.
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Speaker 1: Cardinals went up to Denver and the Cardinals man, they
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Speaker 1: were playing with their backups, backup, Cold McCoy was supposed
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Speaker 1: to play and then that didn't work out. He's out
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Speaker 1: with a concussion, so they bring in their backup, backup,
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Speaker 1: but they got the job done. Twenty four to fifteen.
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Speaker 1: Fred Ripping got the start for the Denver Broncos. Russell
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Speaker 1: Wilson was still dealing with the concussion. That concussion was nasty, man.
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Speaker 1: He got up, got a bump on his forehead didn't
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Speaker 1: look right. I felt bad for us in that moment,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, you're playing with the backups. The Broncos got
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Speaker 1: their first one six October five games in a row.
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Speaker 1: They have lost before that. They lost nine of their
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Speaker 1: last ten. They needed this win and they got it done.
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Speaker 1: Ripping was under pressure all day. He got sacked seven times,
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Speaker 1: but managed to do a decent job. Man twenty one
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Speaker 1: to twenty six, one ninety seven, one touchdown and one interception.
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Speaker 1: Let Tavia's Murray Man. I haven't seen his name on
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Speaker 1: a statue whennumbers like this in a while. Twenty four
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Speaker 1: carries for one thirty and one touchdown. On the other side,
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals started cold. McCoy he was playing for Kyler Murray,
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Speaker 1: but then he had a concussion in the He goes
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Speaker 1: out Trace McSorley. I looked him up nass at Penn State.
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Speaker 1: He was filthy. He wasn't really good at Penn State.
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Speaker 1: He was I remember, and he kind of shot up
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Speaker 1: the draft board at the end and obviously hasn't panned
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Speaker 1: out in the league. But he was a good college
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Speaker 1: player for sure. Yeah, the Cardinal struggle to get Indian
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Speaker 1: going offensively, but we're leading nine to three in the third,
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Speaker 1: but three straight touchdowns for the Broncos put the game
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Speaker 1: out of reach. I love when I find guys like um,
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Speaker 1: like a McSorley that you you recognize, an amy like hey,
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Speaker 1: where's it come from? An ego and you see them
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Speaker 1: ball out and seeing all these backups go at it.
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Speaker 1: It was fun, man. Yeah. And the only reason this
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Speaker 1: game means a dang thing, bump is worth thinking about
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Speaker 1: the draft pack exactly the Broncos. So it's not it's
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Speaker 1: not the end of the world, Seahawks fans. The Seahawks
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Speaker 1: were in position at the number two pick with that win.
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Speaker 1: They've fallen to the number third pick in the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three draft, so we'll see. I don't know one
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Speaker 1: that scares me with the Broncos bump is they're playing
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Speaker 1: the Rams, and the Rams are all kind of disarrayed
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Speaker 1: about to talk about them here in a second, So
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Speaker 1: we'll see. It's still still gonna be good. I still
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Speaker 1: believe that's very easily going to be a top five
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Speaker 1: pick regardless, So we'll keep you updated there. But the
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Speaker 1: Rams Monday Night Football go down to Green Bay. Taking
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Speaker 1: Elle was twenty four to twelve on the road, Baker
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Speaker 1: Mayfield had the Mojoe rockin Roland doing his thing and
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Speaker 1: that comeback win on Thursday Night Football last week, that
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Speaker 1: luck ran out as they you know, just couldn't really
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Speaker 1: get it done. They're only down ten six at the half,
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Speaker 1: but it was all all Packers in the second half.
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Speaker 1: AJ Dillon two rushing touchdowns, Aaron Rodgers doos for one,
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Speaker 1: Mayfield goes twelve or twenty one for one to eleven
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Speaker 1: one touchdown. One pick was sacked five separate times. So
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Speaker 1: with that loss, the Rams eliminated from the playoffs. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's the second earliest defending Super Bowl champion has been
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Speaker 1: eliminated from playoff contention in the last thirty seasons. Only
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Speaker 1: the ninety nine Broncos were eliminated in Week fourteen. The
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Speaker 1: difference there is John Eli went back to back Super
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Speaker 1: Bowls then retires, So they finished six and ten that year.
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Speaker 1: But Rams obviously not making it back. A lot of
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Speaker 1: guys out and that's kind of what's cocked up to them.
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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, Stafford, Cup, you name it. They're not playing.
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Speaker 1: But why does this impact the Seahawks? You ask Bump.
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Speaker 1: I didn't even think about this really until pregame of
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Speaker 1: that game yesterday, because believe it or not, the Packers
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Speaker 1: aren't done. If they ran out, they will be nine
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Speaker 1: and eight and they will be right there in the
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Speaker 1: thick of it. So they do have a tough schedule
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Speaker 1: Dolphins Vikings lines. But if they won out, and let's
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Speaker 1: say the Seahawks only win two of their next three,
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Speaker 1: the Packers would hold the tiebreaker. And here's what Seahawks
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Speaker 1: fans really need to understand. A no, here what really
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Speaker 1: hurt about losing all those games in the NFC south.
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Speaker 1: Of course, you don't want to lose games at all, right,
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Speaker 1: but the fact that they were in the NFC, because
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Speaker 1: when he goes to the wild card, the tiebreakers are
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Speaker 1: head to head then conference record, and those were four
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Speaker 1: losses in the NFC. The Seahawks are five and six
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Speaker 1: in conference and they only have one more conference game remaining,
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Speaker 1: so the best they can do with six and six.
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Speaker 1: So that's why those really hurt. But bomb you can
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Speaker 1: take gets through this playoff picture because the Seahawks still
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Speaker 1: do have a chance. Yeah, they still got a chance.
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Speaker 1: They're sitting outside looking at the Washington Commanders. They're seven
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Speaker 1: to six. The Hawks are seven and seven behind them
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Speaker 1: you mentioned in Green Bay Packers, but right behind them
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Speaker 1: you have the Detroit Lions. And the Lions are hot
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Speaker 1: right now too. That's nothing I want to point out.
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Speaker 1: The Lions are playing good football. Green Bays bouncing back.
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Speaker 1: This is gonna be a race to the finish when
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Speaker 1: we look at the playoffs situation. But here's a look
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Speaker 1: at what each one of those teams. So I've left
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Speaker 1: right we're talking about the New York Giants. They still
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Speaker 1: got Minnesota, Indianapolis, in Philly. I look at Minnesota and
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Speaker 1: I'm watching their comeback win this past weekend. They're flying high,
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Speaker 1: they're feeling good. Indianapolis, I feel like they're in disarray.
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Speaker 1: And then at Philly. We all know how we feel
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Speaker 1: about Philly. I think they're the most balanced team in
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Speaker 1: the league. I see I see maybe one win out
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Speaker 1: of those three with New York guys. One win. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The only thing that scares me is Philly in Week eighteen,
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Speaker 1: are they going to be resting guys? Yeah? And that's
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Speaker 1: why I was hoping. You know, if Jalen Hurd something
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Speaker 1: not hope for an injury, but he might not play
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Speaker 1: A Sweet Gardnermentshire or guy Gookus is gonna be playing,
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Speaker 1: it looks like, but if they have no one to
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Speaker 1: play for, that's what scares me. There Washington. I think
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Speaker 1: this is the seahawks best chance. Washington play San fran
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Speaker 1: that's an now, oh that's a loss. They got Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: that's a big toss up, and then Dallas. I would
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Speaker 1: hope the Eagles will lose a couple. So Dallas is
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Speaker 1: still playing for something because they win the division, then
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Speaker 1: they can only get the high schoold card, which was five.
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Speaker 1: So what needs to happen is that Cleveland game is
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Speaker 1: going to be a lot for the Seahawks. Obviously the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks could win out, but for Washington, I believe that's
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Speaker 1: the best chance for the Seahawks to get that seven
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Speaker 1: spot as they jump Washington. And it's the Commanders losing
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Speaker 1: two of those three. This team scares me the most,
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Speaker 1: or this scenario, this situation. The Detroit Lions. Man, they
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Speaker 1: played Carolina Chicago in green Bay. Now after yesterday, I
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Speaker 1: feel a little bit stronger about green Bay. But these
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Speaker 1: are all three games that the Lions could win. I
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Speaker 1: can see going out and going through. You know, the
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Speaker 1: upshot of all this is that Seattle may have a
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Speaker 1: lot of trouble catching up to the Giants, but could
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Speaker 1: have something of an edge on Washington. So it's, uh,
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Speaker 1: it's you're watching the Giants, You're watching Washington, You're watching
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Speaker 1: Detroit every weekend to figure out what's gonna happen here,
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Speaker 1: no question, And who who would have thought that Week
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Speaker 1: four win or whatever it was against Detroit was gonna
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Speaker 1: set the big win for the Seahawks crucial. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Dan Campbell got dumb boys playing, but hey, pay attention,
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Speaker 1: bump set at New York, Washington, Detroit, and I guess
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Speaker 1: the quasi on Green Bay when you're talking about this
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Speaker 1: playoff picture. But it comes down to what the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: can do on the field. They have three games. Everyone
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Speaker 1: out in their moms and essentially given Kansas City this win.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go through these matchups and tell you why
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks might have a chance. But I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to sugarcoat it. These Chiefs are very good. Let's get
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Speaker 1: into those matchups. A man up, this man up on
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Speaker 1: Hawk Talk, starting with the quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Nowhere else
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Speaker 1: to start. This man is the real deal. He's the
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Speaker 1: best QB in the National Football League in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: and the stats back that up. He leads the NFL
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Speaker 1: in passing yards with four thousand, four hundred ninety six,
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Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy seven yards ahead of Justin Herbert,
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Speaker 1: who's number two. He leads the league in touchdowns with
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Speaker 1: thirty five sixt and completion percentage thirteen yards per attempt,
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Speaker 1: third in QB rating. He's also the leader of the
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Speaker 1: NFL's number one offense, number one passing offense the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: lead the NFL, and points per game. He's on the
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Speaker 1: year three seventy two for five fifty two, four thousand,
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Speaker 1: four ninety six, thirty five touchdowns, eleven interceptions, sack twenty
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Speaker 1: three times, also the second leading rusher on the team
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Speaker 1: in three hundred and thirteen yards on fifty two carries
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Speaker 1: in three touchdowns, and rich in our PR department gave
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Speaker 1: me the stat just before I walked in here. He's
16:53
Speaker 1: also chasing history this week. Mahomes enters the game with
16:56
Speaker 1: an active streak of twenty completions in a row. The
17:00
Speaker 1: NFL record is twenty five, held by four players. So
17:03
Speaker 1: we're hoping, you know, Triquel and gets a nice PBu
17:05
Speaker 1: on the first play the game on the side to
17:07
Speaker 1: throw that thing. So Mahomes doesn't get any of that history.
17:11
Speaker 1: But when you look the film, man, these guys are good.
17:14
Speaker 1: Mahomes can make all the throws, all the Sports Center
17:17
Speaker 1: top tens. The defense is going to face their biggest
17:19
Speaker 1: challenge of the year. On paper, it looks like they
17:21
Speaker 1: want to throw that thing and the only real knock,
17:24
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, is turnover to Frenchial. They're mightety six.
17:27
Speaker 1: Only the Colts and the Saints have a worst to
17:29
Speaker 1: Frenchial mightety twelve. And they also have given the ball
17:31
Speaker 1: away twenty one times. Only four teams have more than that.
17:34
Speaker 1: So Mahomes doesn't have any weaknesses in this game. If
17:38
Speaker 1: you want to maybe see to one, it's a team
17:40
Speaker 1: turning them ball over. But the defense is gonna have
17:42
Speaker 1: their hands full of Patrick for sure. Yeah, man, this
17:45
Speaker 1: is what he does best quarterback in the league right now.
17:47
Speaker 1: For a reason. He will put up points and put
17:49
Speaker 1: them in a position to win. Let's talk about our
17:51
Speaker 1: quarterback Geno versus Chiefs defense. Man. He played the number
17:55
Speaker 1: one defense in the land last Thursday, and he did
17:59
Speaker 1: all right. Man thirty one four two thirty eight in
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Speaker 1: one touchdown. Thursday was Gino's fourth game this season with
18:04
Speaker 1: a passer rating less than ninety nine, so clearly we
18:08
Speaker 1: knew what these guys were up against. Defensively, against the Niners,
18:11
Speaker 1: they made a tough on him in His streak of
18:13
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns and seven straight games came to an end
18:15
Speaker 1: against the Niner as well. He has twenty six touchdowns
18:18
Speaker 1: as a career high on the season. He remains the
18:21
Speaker 1: leader when it comes to completion percentage seventy one point
18:24
Speaker 1: four percent. He's set seventh and passing yards fourth, in
18:27
Speaker 1: touchdowns second, and passer rating fifth in QBR. Needless to say,
18:31
Speaker 1: this guy's still putting together a good season. I expect
18:33
Speaker 1: him to be in the Pro Bowl this year. We
18:35
Speaker 1: shall see. On the year I mentioned its numbers thirty
18:38
Speaker 1: three excuse me, three hundred thirty seven or four seventy
18:40
Speaker 1: two for three six hundred and seventy one yards, twenty
18:43
Speaker 1: six touchdowns, eight interceptions, and he runs the ball decently too.
18:47
Speaker 1: I didn't know Gino had a little bit of a
18:49
Speaker 1: little bit of stride, but he has ye a little burst.
18:52
Speaker 1: He's got fifty six scares for two eighty one and
18:54
Speaker 1: one touchdown Defensively, the Chiefs our fourteenth in the league,
18:59
Speaker 1: allowing three hundred thirty two yards. Not bad, not good,
19:02
Speaker 1: But they got some names over there. Bet you recognize
19:05
Speaker 1: against the past or ranked twenty first. So it's really
19:08
Speaker 1: all about Gino taking care of the ball and being
19:11
Speaker 1: the guy we think he is. It's gonna be tough,
19:14
Speaker 1: it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be windy, we shall see.
19:16
Speaker 1: But good numbers against a decent defense with some guys
19:19
Speaker 1: whore gonna make some players. Yeah, we're gonna need Gino
19:21
Speaker 1: to be on it because I think this team is
19:22
Speaker 1: gonna have to be flying on all cylinders on offense,
19:25
Speaker 1: score a lot of points, and it starts with Gino
19:28
Speaker 1: looking at the Chiefs running attack. Isaiah Pacheco versus Seahawks
19:32
Speaker 1: front seven. Obviously I mentioned earlier. When you think about
19:34
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, you don't think about the run game. But
19:36
Speaker 1: they're they're not bad. They're sixteenth the NFL, so about
19:38
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack, averaging one hundred nineteen yards
19:41
Speaker 1: per game. Leading the attack this year is Pacheco, the
19:44
Speaker 1: rookie in his first season out of the Rutgers. On
19:46
Speaker 1: the year, one hundred thirty nine carries six hundred and
19:49
Speaker 1: seventy seven yards, three touchdowns. Not used very much in
19:52
Speaker 1: the passing game, only has ten receptions for eighty yards.
19:56
Speaker 1: And the Chiefs leading rusher in twenty twenty and their
19:58
Speaker 1: second leading rusher in twenty one was Edwards Hilaire. He
20:01
Speaker 1: came into the season the starter, but lost his job
20:03
Speaker 1: in most his playing times. But Checko then to make
20:06
Speaker 1: things worse, Edwards Hilaire suffers a high ankle sprand goes
20:09
Speaker 1: to I R at the end of Nomember. Now the
20:11
Speaker 1: other healthy running back to have in that stable is
20:13
Speaker 1: Jared McKinnon sixty three carries, two seventy four and a touchdown.
20:17
Speaker 1: He's also effective pass catcher with forty six receptions four
20:20
Speaker 1: twenty nine five touchdowns. Big week last week against the
20:23
Speaker 1: Texans on hundred and twenty two total yards two touchdowns.
20:26
Speaker 1: Now it's no secret the Seahawks have struggled to stop
20:29
Speaker 1: the run. Over the last five weeks. The Seahawks have
20:31
Speaker 1: allowed one thousand and eight yards rushing one sixty one
20:34
Speaker 1: of the Bucks, two eighty three the Raiders, one seventy
20:36
Speaker 1: one of the Rams, two twenty three to the Panthers,
20:38
Speaker 1: and one seventy to the forty nine ers. That's an
20:41
Speaker 1: average of two o one. Obviously, we know that's not
20:43
Speaker 1: good enough. Things did feel a lot better last week, though,
20:45
Speaker 1: I'll say that outside of the last run, which I
20:47
Speaker 1: know you can't eliminate, but before that they held the
20:50
Speaker 1: Niners two hundred and fifteen yards and thirty three carries.
20:52
Speaker 1: Still need to improve, but I think this could be
20:55
Speaker 1: the week on the season. The Hawks, or thirty first
20:56
Speaker 1: in rushing defense, give up one hundred and sixty one
20:59
Speaker 1: a game, So I mean this needs to get stopped here,
21:02
Speaker 1: especially with everything that they can do. The running game,
21:05
Speaker 1: wals Wood can't kill you because if the Chiefs are
21:07
Speaker 1: two dimensional, it could be a long day on defense.
21:11
Speaker 1: And you know they're gonna try. You have to try it.
21:13
Speaker 1: You have to give it a go and see what
21:14
Speaker 1: happens there. The secondary and linebackers are gonna have their
21:18
Speaker 1: hands full as well. You got Travis Kelsey, Juju Smith, Shooster,
21:21
Speaker 1: Marquez Valdez Scantlin all ready to go for the Chiefs.
21:25
Speaker 1: They got the best passing attack in the game, no
21:29
Speaker 1: doubt about it. And that's even after losing Tyreek Hill,
21:32
Speaker 1: who had fifteen hundred twenty nine yards. He's having to
21:35
Speaker 1: get year over there in Miami too. He just keeps
21:37
Speaker 1: the party going. But the Chiefs still got some guys.
21:39
Speaker 1: Man Travis Kelsey the best passcashing tight end in the league.
21:43
Speaker 1: He's got ninety one receptions, eleven hundred forty four yards
21:46
Speaker 1: and twelve touchdowns. Ninety one receptions, that's a while. His
21:50
Speaker 1: one thousand, one hundred and forty four receiving yards is
21:53
Speaker 1: six in the NFL and of course first amongst tight
21:56
Speaker 1: ends by a wide margin. Hockinson, who made the move
21:59
Speaker 1: from Minnesota from Denver to Minnesota, Detroit to Minnesota, It's
22:03
Speaker 1: had himself a good year seven hundred and thirty yards.
22:05
Speaker 1: But Kelsey is on a different level. Man. It's and
22:09
Speaker 1: it's funny watching Kelsey because you see him move and
22:11
Speaker 1: he doesn't seem like an explosive player. He just has
22:14
Speaker 1: a great feel for the game, man. And this run
22:16
Speaker 1: after the catch is sneaky as sneaky as well, So
22:19
Speaker 1: it's he's a tough one. But they got another threat,
22:22
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster. He's got seventy one quiet receptions for
22:25
Speaker 1: eight fifty and three touchdowns. He's the team's second leading receiver,
22:30
Speaker 1: and Marquez Valdez. This was a great pick of them
22:33
Speaker 1: and another threat. He has thirty seven recesss for six
22:36
Speaker 1: thirty two in two touchdowns. This is gonna be a
22:39
Speaker 1: test for these guys on all levels. You got tight end,
22:42
Speaker 1: you got two receivers who can get it done. You
22:43
Speaker 1: mentioned they're running back as well. So the Hawks are
22:47
Speaker 1: seven against the pass this year, So let's look like
22:49
Speaker 1: number ten or twelve. I'm hoping so man, because Kelsey
22:52
Speaker 1: seven straight one thousand yards seasons, ninety one receptions as
22:55
Speaker 1: a tight end. And when you watch the film I
22:57
Speaker 1: watching them play the Rams earlier this year, he put
23:00
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey in a blender and I'm like, how is
23:02
Speaker 1: a guy his size? When you watch him, like, how
23:04
Speaker 1: is he getting open? It doesn't matter how he's getting open,
23:08
Speaker 1: he just does it. He's gonna be a first ballot
23:09
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer in my opinion when he gets there.
23:11
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be tough. But this is the
23:15
Speaker 1: first time and over a month that we're looking at
23:17
Speaker 1: the pass game, and I think Tariq, Mike Jackson, Quandre
23:21
Speaker 1: Diggs are up to the challenge and I would love
23:23
Speaker 1: to see them get their opportunity to really show what
23:25
Speaker 1: they can do in the secondary to try to create
23:27
Speaker 1: some turnovers because we are gonna need that for show. Now.
23:32
Speaker 1: Seahawks offensive line the learned matchup looking at them, looking
23:34
Speaker 1: at going against Chris Jones, Frank Clark, and Carlos Dunlap.
23:38
Speaker 1: So the Chiefs, their defense is about middle of the pack,
23:41
Speaker 1: but they get after the quarterback their fourth in the
23:43
Speaker 1: NFL and sacks with forty three. They're also fifth in
23:46
Speaker 1: QB pressures with one hundred and fifty one. Leading the
23:49
Speaker 1: charge for those Chiefs. His defensive tackle, Chris Jones. On
23:52
Speaker 1: the season, Jones's thirty two tackles, eleven sacks, twelve TFLs,
23:56
Speaker 1: four passes defended, two forced fumbles. His eleven sacks leads
24:00
Speaker 1: a team. So he's doing it from an interior position,
24:03
Speaker 1: which is crazy to see. He's been doing it for
24:04
Speaker 1: a long time now. He's not a new name out there.
24:07
Speaker 1: The other two guys you've got Frank Clark, Carlos Dunlapp
24:10
Speaker 1: obviously spent time in Seattle. Frank Clark, who the Seahawks drafted,
24:13
Speaker 1: and he's having a decent year. Thirty two tackles, five sacks,
24:16
Speaker 1: six TFLs and then you got Carlos Dunlapp, who last
24:20
Speaker 1: year still other team in sacks. He didn't play a lot.
24:22
Speaker 1: There's some you know, consternation about that. He obviously leaves,
24:25
Speaker 1: goes to Kansas City and he got his hundred sack
24:27
Speaker 1: of his career. So big ups. Carlos Dunlap always enjoyed
24:30
Speaker 1: our conversation in the locker room. He's a good dude.
24:33
Speaker 1: Thirty six tackles on the year, four sacks, five TFLs.
24:36
Speaker 1: In his one and a half years with Seattle he
24:38
Speaker 1: had thirteen sacks and thirty five tackles. Frank Clark in
24:41
Speaker 1: his four years had thirty five sacks and thirty five TFLs.
24:44
Speaker 1: So the one thing I'll say, the offensive line has
24:48
Speaker 1: played so well this year, and I would say recently
24:51
Speaker 1: they've struggled a little bit at times keeping Gino clean.
24:54
Speaker 1: You know, in the last five weeks they've allowed sixteen sacks.
24:57
Speaker 1: They allowed twenty one in the previous nine games. So
25:00
Speaker 1: they need to play their best game in the year
25:02
Speaker 1: for sure, because the score points. Female is gonna need
25:04
Speaker 1: a tighter pocket than he had against the forty nine ers. Yeah,
25:08
Speaker 1: for sure, Oline is gonna have to step up It's
25:10
Speaker 1: gonna be nice to us see our guys over there,
25:12
Speaker 1: Frank Clark and Dunlap, but not don't play too well
25:15
Speaker 1: this Saturday plays. This next matchup, we got DK and
25:19
Speaker 1: Marquis did win going up against this Chief's secondary Legarius
25:23
Speaker 1: Snead and Trent McDuffie as well as Joshua Adams. Mcduffey
25:28
Speaker 1: went where nas the University of Washington And I'm gonna
25:32
Speaker 1: let you say that now you can say that, all right?
25:37
Speaker 1: What DK man. He's getting closer to his second one
25:40
Speaker 1: thousand yards season. On the year, he's got seventy nine receptions,
25:43
Speaker 1: nine hundred and twenty four yards and six touchdowns. He
25:46
Speaker 1: is the fifth player of the NFL history to have
25:48
Speaker 1: fifty plus reception and nine plus yards plus five plus
25:52
Speaker 1: touchdowns and his first four seasons. DK metcalf is the guy,
25:56
Speaker 1: and he's gonna have to be the guy because we're
25:58
Speaker 1: trying to see who's gonna step in for Tyler Lockett.
26:00
Speaker 1: He is going to be out. He's missed one regular
26:03
Speaker 1: season game since twenty sixteen because of injury. He broke
26:06
Speaker 1: his leg that year. It's two playoff games as well.
26:11
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett just plays football. All right, that's what he does.
26:14
Speaker 1: So and it's gonna be weird at having him out there.
26:16
Speaker 1: So with him being absent, I was expect the tight
26:18
Speaker 1: ends to get a bit more involved and hand the
26:20
Speaker 1: ball off and screen to ken Walker. No offense. There's
26:24
Speaker 1: a third leading receiver in this team. He's having a
26:26
Speaker 1: good season to forty two receptions for four to fourteen
26:28
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns. This is the guy I expect to
26:30
Speaker 1: step up in Tyre Locket's absence, is Mark. He's goodwin
26:33
Speaker 1: twenty seven receptions, three to seven and four touchdowns. You
26:37
Speaker 1: you hear those numbers and you say, why him? Because
26:39
Speaker 1: you see his receptions. They're big time receptions. Had a
26:41
Speaker 1: great game in Tampa, big players on third downs, a
26:44
Speaker 1: fourth down pick up as well. He's a veteran. He's
26:47
Speaker 1: a guy that I see being able to step into
26:49
Speaker 1: that role and phil avoid along with no offense. Yeah,
26:52
Speaker 1: we're gonna need him to get your track shoes out
26:54
Speaker 1: because he can run. We know that he can run
26:56
Speaker 1: with the best film, you know, Olympic quality speed. And
26:59
Speaker 1: we're hoping and see Marquise get really involved because, like
27:01
Speaker 1: you said, you can't replace Tyler, and Tyler's hoping. You know,
27:04
Speaker 1: he had a great surgery, Coach Tyler, everyone's hoping that
27:07
Speaker 1: he might be back for that Jet game on New
27:09
Speaker 1: Year's Day, So we'll see. In the meantime, we'll need
27:11
Speaker 1: to see more from Marquise Goodwin. Treadwell has been promoted
27:15
Speaker 1: to the rest of the year, to fifty three man roster,
27:16
Speaker 1: so who'll get a couple opportunities. Three Young is also
27:19
Speaker 1: in that receiving corps. But I think you're correct. The
27:21
Speaker 1: thing is gonna come down to Marquise and no offense.
27:24
Speaker 1: So we've gone through all the match ups. We've told
27:26
Speaker 1: you who their guys are. We know the Chiefs are good,
27:29
Speaker 1: but me and Bump are gonna tell you how to
27:31
Speaker 1: see us and get that victory. Path the victory at
27:36
Speaker 1: the forty five waits for the staff. Michael Dickson puts
27:39
Speaker 1: it down. That kick is away, and that kick is gone.
27:44
Speaker 1: It's gone. It's a path to victory. On Hawk Talk,
27:48
Speaker 1: slow down the number one offense, mom patching Mahomes. He's
27:51
Speaker 1: gonna put up his numbers. We know that that's a
27:53
Speaker 1: fact book it. But one way to sew him down
27:56
Speaker 1: is pressure and turnovers. The Hawks have been thin up
27:58
Speaker 1: the defensive line. So we'll what happens without Woods and
28:01
Speaker 1: the wrest of the guys up front. But they're gonna
28:03
Speaker 1: need to generate pressure. The Chiefs have the third worst
28:05
Speaker 1: turnover to French in the NFL, and they're gonna need
28:08
Speaker 1: to be a factor. And in sawing down Patrick Mahomes,
28:10
Speaker 1: if the Sehaws won't win this ball game, say it
28:13
Speaker 1: every week? Every is it every week? Yeah? Every every
28:17
Speaker 1: week this year. Stop the run, man, that's football for
28:21
Speaker 1: You can stop the run, you can control the game.
28:23
Speaker 1: And we know that the Hawks are struggled a little
28:25
Speaker 1: bit and just don't allow a team that doesn't really
28:27
Speaker 1: run the football to do that. And they're running enough
28:29
Speaker 1: they would average one nineteen on the ground. Not great,
28:32
Speaker 1: not horrible enough to keep you honest. So let's let's
28:36
Speaker 1: change things up this game and stop the run. And
28:38
Speaker 1: then also just know where Travis Kelsey is aka eighty seven.
28:42
Speaker 1: Know where he is the whole time. He's a matchup nightmare.
28:46
Speaker 1: I wonder if Ryan Neil he's a little banged up,
28:47
Speaker 1: se if he's healthy, how he's gonna play him. If
28:50
Speaker 1: Quandre plays him, he's it's gonna be tough, man. So
28:53
Speaker 1: watch eighty seven. Stop the run. I hope you're right, Bump.
28:56
Speaker 1: That's definitely gonna be a key to victory for sure.
28:58
Speaker 1: And we gotta score points in this game. I think
29:01
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna need to score thirty five. And to
29:03
Speaker 1: do that, Gino is gonna need to play his best
29:05
Speaker 1: game of the season. He's had a couple struggles as
29:07
Speaker 1: of late, but he's also done a lot of really
29:09
Speaker 1: good things. And he's not gonna have Tyer Lockett. So
29:12
Speaker 1: who steps up? We know DK Hopefully he gets to
29:14
Speaker 1: step up more thirteen personnel, more Marquis could win more.
29:17
Speaker 1: Gino just taken what the defense is given him, but
29:19
Speaker 1: also making plays down the field, like when he's done,
29:22
Speaker 1: he's done it with his legs, he's done it with
29:23
Speaker 1: accurate passing. So he needs to get back to everything
29:26
Speaker 1: he's done this year, and I think he is ready
29:28
Speaker 1: for the challenge. It's Christmas Eve. Anything can happen the Texans.
29:31
Speaker 1: No one gave the Texans a shot last week and
29:33
Speaker 1: they took him the overtime, so anything could happened. And
29:35
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna start offensively with Gino Smith run
29:39
Speaker 1: the ball, all right, I said, stop the run. Now
29:42
Speaker 1: we have to run. Ken Walker needs to have his
29:45
Speaker 1: hands all over this game. He's at least twenty carries.
29:47
Speaker 1: I say, twenty five touches. Twenty carries plus five receptions.
29:51
Speaker 1: Use this young man, and then do better to do
29:55
Speaker 1: a better job converting on third downs. At one point,
29:57
Speaker 1: the Hawks were top three in the league when it
29:59
Speaker 1: came to third down conversions. They dropped a bit, still
30:02
Speaker 1: one of the better teams, but as of late hasn't
30:04
Speaker 1: been that great third downs. Keep the chains moving, that's
30:08
Speaker 1: a scared that's a recipe. That's what we need to do.
30:11
Speaker 1: Nobody's giving the Hawks a chance this week. They can
30:13
Speaker 1: shock the world, but they're not gonna shock anybody in
30:15
Speaker 1: the Virginia Mason Athletic Center because they believe they can
30:18
Speaker 1: do it, because they have the guys to get it done.
30:20
Speaker 1: So let's keep the playoff hopes alive. They got nothing
30:23
Speaker 1: to lose. Let's get it done on Christmas Eve against
30:25
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. We'll get going at seven am
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Speaker 1: on the radio. Hoh. It smokes back to another early
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Speaker 1: Eve against the Kansas City Chiefs. Hopefully, what we're talking
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