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The Ride Begins · 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.
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Speaker 2: Playfake, go to roll right, dumps it off into the
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Speaker 2: right flass to Michael Bumpers, who bounces off of one tackler,
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Speaker 2: gets inside the forty down of the thirty five yard line.
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Speaker 1: Powered by Seahawks dot Com.
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Speaker 2: Matt Pumpfak's looking at the gold line. He throws it
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Speaker 2: into the m zone. Touchdown. Say Hawks, it's Michael Bumpas
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Speaker 2: with a diving catching the end zone on ten yard
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Speaker 2: touchdown reception for Bumpus, and the kid out of Washington
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Speaker 2: State has found himself a place on this team.
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Speaker 1: Now, here's your host, Nasa Jovie.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back, Bombas back like we
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Speaker 3: never left.
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Speaker 4: You're listening to another edition of Hawk Talk.
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Speaker 3: The preview. Seahawks regular season football is here. Twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: four is here. We're very excited. It's been a long
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Speaker 3: time since we've been here with you, bump We got
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Speaker 3: a new head coach, Mike McDonald, youngest in the NFL,
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Speaker 3: almost an entire new coaching staff, new coordinators grub Dirty Harbaugh,
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Speaker 3: new players dots in Baker Jenkins, Wallace Tomlinson, Ferrell Brown,
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Speaker 3: La Viscas Channaut. We got upgrades to the facility. We
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Speaker 3: had upgrades allumin field and for the first time, Bump,
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Speaker 3: we've been doing this for five plus years. People can
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Speaker 3: see us now. Hey we're on video, baby, little studio
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Speaker 3: in here. Yeah, Mama, we made it. Hey, we're in there.
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Speaker 5: It's like the first day at school all over again.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 6: I used to lay out my outfit them baggy jeans,
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Speaker 6: thirty eight. I should be wearing thirty two's two XL
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Speaker 6: T and the JS Man.
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Speaker 5: This is what it feels like right now.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.
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Speaker 3: And I like that you had the Jays because sometimes
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Speaker 3: I've been like, you know, I had the case Swiss
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Speaker 3: with the rubber bank, the.
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Speaker 5: Case swiss yup, the case around the jeans.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe a little Sean John May a little fat
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Speaker 3: farm saying anyway, But.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Bump, I'm happy to be on a camera with you.
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Speaker 4: This should be really fun.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna give you the same good insight we've always
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Speaker 3: given you, guys, getting you ready, So let's just jump
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Speaker 3: right into this roster, Bump. Twenty twenty four Seahawks. You've
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Speaker 3: been watching them all camp, you know, I'm bumping Stacy
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Speaker 3: or all the things that you're doing. You've been here
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Speaker 3: watching this team. Just kind of your overall thoughts of
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Speaker 3: this roster and how different the twenty twenty four team
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Speaker 3: can look from last year.
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Speaker 6: Meant offensively, the roster has changed a little bit. Like
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Speaker 6: the guys you're gonna rely on are still there, right,
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Speaker 6: Gene is still there, Ken Walker, Zach Sharbonne, Kenny McIntosh
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Speaker 6: might touch the rock this year.
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Speaker 5: That gets me excited. Right, The Titan room has change
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Speaker 5: a bit.
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Speaker 6: You got Pel Brown and Brady Russell, which I was
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Speaker 6: glad Brady made the team three eight, was making plays
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Speaker 6: in preseason in aj Barner, But and then the offensive line, right,
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Speaker 6: will see what Gabe, excuse me, what Abe Lucas looks
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Speaker 6: like throughout the season. You bring over Lincoln Thomlinson, you
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Speaker 6: got your draft, a few guys, Christian Haynes, you got
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Speaker 6: Connor Wins.
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Speaker 5: There's some changes there.
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Speaker 6: But there's one player who's got my attention the most, right,
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Speaker 6: and it's none of the guys that has mentioned Laviskas channel.
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Speaker 6: I mean, he made some noise this preseason, so I'm
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Speaker 6: happy to see how they use him. He's on special
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Speaker 6: teams made a couple of catches in the return game.
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Speaker 6: I think he's gonna be big offensively. Defensively, what stands
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Speaker 6: out to you man defensively?
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Speaker 3: First of all, we've heard it a million times this offseason,
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Speaker 3: and I've gotten to see it a little bit up
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Speaker 3: close and personal, and it's just coach Mike McDonald, right,
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Speaker 3: he's a genius. Tyrold new linebacker today spoke about it
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Speaker 3: in this press conference that like, I don't even know
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Speaker 3: if he's aware of how smart he is, right, And
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Speaker 3: everyone on defense is locked in, they're bought in, and
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Speaker 3: we're just gonna see different stuff. I feel like that
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Speaker 3: we haven't seen recently, right. You know, we all remember
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Speaker 3: the game against Baltimore this past season wasn't fun for
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Speaker 3: anyone in the Seahawks uniform, right, and just the things
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Speaker 3: that people saw. So I'm excited about just him being
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Speaker 3: in charge. Then you bring in Dirty who's had a
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Speaker 3: ton of success with Dallas in different places he's been.
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Speaker 3: But I look around and I go the front seven bumpy,
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Speaker 3: I've excited and such a bummer that our guy Channon
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Speaker 3: Wosu he'll be back out there eventually. But he got
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Speaker 3: a little dinged up in the preseason. But when you
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Speaker 3: look at this stuff, Okay, boy a coming into year two,
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Speaker 3: Derek Hall was messing people up this preseason. He's going
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Speaker 3: to take a jump Mafe Draymont. Then you got Leo,
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Speaker 3: Leonard Williams, Jaron Reed Hankins. Of course the number one
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Speaker 3: first round pick, I should say, Byron Murphy. So I
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Speaker 3: look at this front seven and I feel like, sorry,
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Speaker 3: then you had the linebackers Dotson and Baker Bump.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel.
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Speaker 4: Like this front seven on paper.
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Speaker 3: Even Mike McDonald's alluded to this, I feel like this
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Speaker 3: is one of the better front sevens he's ever coached.
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Speaker 4: And he's coming from Baltimore, so that's saying something.
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Speaker 3: So for me, I'm really excited about what they can
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Speaker 3: do from a pressure standpoint and just all the looks
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Speaker 3: they can give. I just feel like this front seven
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Speaker 3: a is going to be way better stopping to run,
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Speaker 3: way better overall defense, and that's just gonna make the
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Speaker 3: life of guys like Spoon, Riquell and Jewy Love that
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Speaker 3: much easier.
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Speaker 4: Man. So I'm pumped up about this front seven.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, when you can eat in the box, the back
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Speaker 6: end is gonna be fine man, Jay Love, big us.
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Speaker 5: Jay Love got that big contract man three years. What
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Speaker 5: do you like? Twelve million a year?
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Speaker 6: Good for you, son, and bringing in Wallace and Jenkins
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Speaker 6: as what that safety spot? You know, Jamal's not here obviously,
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Speaker 6: Quandrey Thor over there in Tennessee. But no, I feel
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Speaker 6: good about the back end. And I felt good about
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Speaker 6: the back end before the box got solidified.
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Speaker 5: So now that the box is locked down, the back
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Speaker 5: end should be good.
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Speaker 6: The personnel is there now they got to go out
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Speaker 6: and scheme and execute.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing about football, right, everything is great,
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Speaker 3: and everything is great when you're undefeated. Right, everyone's always underfeed.
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Speaker 3: But I'm really excited about it.
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Speaker 4: Twelve.
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Speaker 3: So you heard it here first from Bump Hot Take.
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Speaker 3: The Boys are gonna be good this year. Expect some
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Speaker 3: big things and I'm excited about it. But let's jump
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Speaker 3: over to the Seahawks Week one opponent. What's on tap?
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Speaker 1: What's on tap?
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Speaker 3: Denver Broncos coming into town on Lumnfield this weekend. The
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Speaker 3: Broncos last year in twenty twenty three were eight and nine,
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Speaker 3: good for third place in the AFC West, and Sean
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Speaker 3: Payton's entering his second season as head coach. And you know,
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Speaker 3: despite them going eight to nine last year, they actually
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Speaker 3: had a three game improvement from the year before. But
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Speaker 3: the Broncos man, they've had some tough times.
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Speaker 5: Bom, Yeah, they have.
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Speaker 3: They have not had a winning season since twenty sixteen
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Speaker 3: Peyton the year after Peyton so had a winning season,
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Speaker 3: but they haven't been to the playoffs since twenty fifteen
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Speaker 3: with Peyton where they won.
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Speaker 4: The Super Bowl. Dang, So it's been a little minute.
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Speaker 4: They've had some rough seasons.
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Speaker 3: A lot of different quarterbacks will get into later, but
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Speaker 3: the main guy that's headlining their team is Bonicks. Everyone
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Speaker 3: in Seattle should be very familiar with Bonick, especially if
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Speaker 3: you're like packed twelve football. He's gonna be making his
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Speaker 3: first NFL start this weekend and we'll dive all into
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Speaker 3: Bowknicks when we get the man up. But just taking
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Speaker 3: a look how Denver finished the season bump. Offensively, they're
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Speaker 3: twenty six averaging two hundred and ninety eight yards per game,
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Speaker 3: eighteenth running the ball one hundred and six yards per game.
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Speaker 3: Throwing the rock, they were twenty fourth at one hundred
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Speaker 3: ninety one yards per game and then points per game.
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Speaker 3: They were nineteenth at twenty one, So obviously it's gonna
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Speaker 3: look completely different. Judy's gone, the big number three, Russell
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Speaker 3: Wilson is no longer there, so their offense is gonna
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Speaker 3: look different. So it's hard to take too much from
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Speaker 3: that bump. But when you stand out, I mean, they
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Speaker 3: have a lot of room to improve when you look
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Speaker 3: at it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Sean Payne has this guy. It never felt like
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Speaker 6: Russell Wilson was his dude. It was kind of like,
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Speaker 6: all right, I'll take this job, and I guess I'll
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Speaker 6: put up with Russell Wilson.
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Speaker 5: I don't think he got a fair shot in Denver.
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Speaker 6: And let me point out, for all the Russell haters
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Speaker 6: out there, we still got a little love for Russell.
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Speaker 6: His second year wasn't that bad, all right, They just
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Speaker 6: weren't winning ball game. So now that Sean Payne has
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Speaker 6: this guy, the young of Bownicks, who is the oldest
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Speaker 6: for rookie in the games, sixty plus games at the
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Speaker 6: college level, which is crazy to me, he should be
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Speaker 6: able to mold this offense the way that he wants to.
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Speaker 6: Last year, on defense, they were twenty ninth overall out
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Speaker 6: three hundred and seventy points. When it comes to RUSS
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Speaker 6: shards per game allowed, they were thirty ath one hundred
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Speaker 6: and thirty seven yards per game passing yards giving up
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Speaker 6: every game two hundred and thirty three. There were twenty
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Speaker 6: second in points allowed twenty four point three. That's twenty seven.
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Speaker 6: It's crazy because Russell's first year that defense was on
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Speaker 6: point right the second and then he couldn't get right.
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Speaker 6: And then the second year he got better and the
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Speaker 6: defense kind of, you know, falls it a little bit.
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Speaker 5: So it's been up and down. You mentioned it, twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 6: Since they've been in the playoffs, yeah, man, or twenty
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Speaker 6: sixteen since they've been into the player.
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Speaker 4: Twenty sixteen, winning seeds in twenty fifteen playoffs.
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Speaker 5: Goodness gracious. So they know about ups and downs.
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Speaker 4: Yeah man. So it's gonna be interesting.
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Speaker 3: Obviously, they have a lot, you know, I think they're
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Speaker 3: playing from a standpoint. I don't know how high expectations
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Speaker 3: are down there in Denver, but I know they're kind
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Speaker 3: of playing with house money. I feel like there's some
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Speaker 3: optimism a new quarterback. So we'll definitely get deeper into
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Speaker 3: what those Broncos look like. But you know, us, we're
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Speaker 3: big time historians. Like to look at what happened the
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Speaker 3: last time these two meant.
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Speaker 4: So let's know the history. No, your history pretty hard
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Speaker 4: to forget.
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Speaker 5: Bump.
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Speaker 3: It was twenty twenty two, the Seahawks win a thriller
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Speaker 3: at lumin Field the season open, and the last time
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Speaker 3: these two.
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Speaker 5: Teams that Monday night.
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Speaker 4: It was Monday was Monday night. Yes, it was Broncos.
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Speaker 3: Overall, though these are two obviously AFC West old rivals,
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Speaker 3: Broncos lead all time series thirty five to twenty two
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Speaker 3: in the regular season. Seahawks are two to zero in
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Speaker 3: the postseason, obviously, including Super Bowl forty eight. The Hawks
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Speaker 3: have also won three of their last four meetings. But
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Speaker 3: that home game, that Monday opener, Monday night twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 3: we got to see Geno Smith for the first time
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Speaker 3: as the real starting quarterback. Russell Wilson made his return
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Speaker 3: to lumen Field, and Bump that day was electric.
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Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, it was awesome, man, it was a thriller.
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Speaker 6: You mentioned Geno Smith doing his thing, and he was
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Speaker 6: twenty three of twenty eight for one hundred ninety five yards.
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Speaker 5: He also had two touchdowns. Will Disley, he.
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Speaker 6: Ain't with us no more, men, Good luck uncle will
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Speaker 6: Kobe Parkinson as well, and with this no more. He's
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Speaker 6: still balling though they had touchdowns and he was seventeen
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Speaker 6: of eighteen in the first half. So Gino hit the
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Speaker 6: scene in that lime green and was like, look, it's
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Speaker 6: my team now.
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Speaker 5: I remember the crowd, Gene no, gene no. I was
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Speaker 5: happy for the dude.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 5: He went out and and he did his thing.
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Speaker 6: Man, But the Seahawks came up with a They force
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Speaker 6: a fumble, two Denver fumbles on the Seahawks one yard
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Speaker 6: line in the second half, and I think that's that
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Speaker 6: kind of gets missed. I forgot about that, those big
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Speaker 6: plays on the goal line. So the first game of
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Speaker 6: the season is primetime. Russell's on the other sideline, Gino's
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Speaker 6: doing this thing. The defense caused a couple of fumbles,
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Speaker 6: and some other things happened too.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, bump, yeah, I think it. Everyone remembers the field goal, right, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson has the ball in his hands as the
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Speaker 3: fourth and five and everyone's justsooming.
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Speaker 4: We're up in the We're up in the now T
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Speaker 4: Mobile end zone.
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Speaker 3: But the old Ring of Honor Lounger sitting there and
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Speaker 3: we're watching the glass and getting ready for the post
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Speaker 3: game show. We're thinking, okay, well they're gonna go for this.
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Speaker 3: They're obviously going for this, and then more time kind
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Speaker 3: of goes off the clock, and more time goes off
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Speaker 3: the clock, and you go, no, they're not gonna They're
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Speaker 3: not gonna send out in it many out McManus for
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Speaker 3: a sixty four yard field goal attempt. As we know,
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Speaker 3: Bronco's twenty more seconds went off the clock, tried the
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Speaker 3: low percentage kick, didn't work, Seahawks win, and we were
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Speaker 3: provided the probably the best post game or one of
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Speaker 3: the best post game soundbites ever. Obviously there's been a
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Speaker 3: couple other historic ones here in Seattle. Richard Trumpan, but
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Speaker 3: you know they when Lisa Salters I believe, asked him,
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Speaker 3: you know, about getting wrote off, He's like, they wrote
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Speaker 3: me off.
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Speaker 4: I am right back, though, that's a problem.
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Speaker 5: That's what's up.
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Speaker 3: And that was the beginning of our friend Gino Smith
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Speaker 3: really taking making a statement for what quarterback you could
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Speaker 3: be in this town. So that was a great memory
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Speaker 3: and I'm hoping the Seahawks can kind of rekindle some
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Speaker 3: of that because while that season had up and downs,
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Speaker 3: it did end in the playoffs, and it was definitely
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Speaker 3: a season where the Seahawks kind of, you know, exceeded expectations.
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Speaker 3: So I'm definitely hoping we can get that to that.
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Speaker 3: But we got to spin it back to the NFC West.
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Speaker 4: Check out what's the word.
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Speaker 2: The Seahawks or the NFC West champs? Again?
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Speaker 4: What's the word in the West? On hot Talk?
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Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you what the word was.
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Speaker 6: In twenty twenty three, the Niners won the division again.
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Speaker 6: They were twelve and five, the Rams ten and seven,
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Speaker 6: the Hawks were nine and eight, and the Arizona Cardinals
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Speaker 6: were four and thirteen. The Seahawks missed the playoff for
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Speaker 6: the fourth time and fourteen seasons.
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Speaker 5: Man, that was rough.
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Speaker 6: But what you got some of those players back in
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Speaker 6: reasons to be optimistic about this group. So we're gonna
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Speaker 6: watch that. But let's keep going down the division. The
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Speaker 6: forty nine Ers did what they do. They went to
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Speaker 6: the playoffs, went to the conference finals in the playoffs,
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Speaker 6: and couldn't come up with a big win. Hard to
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Speaker 6: be a Niners fan. They built you up all year
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Speaker 6: and then they just let you down at the end
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Speaker 6: of the year. Sure, big upset Niner game, beat me
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Speaker 6: bang all right, Arizona, Man, it was tough for them.
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Speaker 5: They end up going four and thirteen.
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Speaker 6: But what I respect about that whole situation is is
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Speaker 6: Kyler Murray came back.
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Speaker 5: He didn't have to play last season.
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Speaker 6: He was banged with ACL he was coming off of
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Speaker 6: didn't have to play, but he got out there and
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Speaker 6: he did his thing, and the team looked looked okay
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Speaker 6: at the end of the year, looked all right. And
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Speaker 6: then the Los Angeles Rams, Man, they shocked the NFL.
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Speaker 6: They were at five and twelve and twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 6: and this in twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 5: I underestimated them.
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Speaker 6: No Trooper Cup was gonna be in the mix, and
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Speaker 6: then Pooka comes out and just arise, what fourteen hundred
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Speaker 6: yards on the season. Matthew Stafford has had his ups
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Speaker 6: and downs as well. No Aaron Donald this year, though,
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Speaker 6: which is gonna got refreshing for this league, especially in
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Speaker 6: this division. But yeah, the Rams, they were the biggest
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Speaker 6: surprise I think in the division last year.
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Speaker 3: With that question, I feel like a lot of us
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Speaker 3: made this comparison last year, but they were essentially the
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty two Seahawks, right where everyone assumed no this
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Speaker 3: team's gonna be horrible. They're gonna win four five games.
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Speaker 3: They come out and it's no surprise. Sean mcvay's a
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Speaker 3: great coach. I remember all the times we've had JB
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Speaker 3: Long on our pregame show, the Rams play by play guy.
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Speaker 3: He was talking about playoffs halfway through the year and
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Speaker 3: we were like, really, but you know, they still laughed
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Speaker 3: at it out there.
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Speaker 6: We laughed at him, and I texted jv I'm gonna
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Speaker 6: work with JB this year. And I texted him and said,
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Speaker 6: my bad dog, you were right, because they were like
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Speaker 6: three and three or something at the time.
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Speaker 3: He wrote an article is like here's the crazy optimism
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Speaker 3: of how the Rams get to the playoffs. Like stop
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Speaker 3: reading if you don't believe me, blah blah blah. So
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Speaker 3: we had fun with him about it and then yes,
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Speaker 3: that's right, you do. Hey, there's a new mc west
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Speaker 3: now this year, new coaches, Mike McDonald's in there. So
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Speaker 3: it'll be interesting to see what the Seahawks do, just
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Speaker 3: because it's obviously one of the best divisions in football,
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Speaker 3: so it should be a fun year bump. But let's
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Speaker 3: get back to these Denver Broncos. Get some matchups, man
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Speaker 3: up man up on Hawk Talk, like we typically do,
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Speaker 3: We're gonna start looking at the quarterbacks, the ones that
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Speaker 3: make a lot of the money here in the National
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Speaker 3: Football League.
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Speaker 4: So we're gonna start with bow Knicks, right.
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Speaker 3: Bo Knicks is the highly touted player out of Oregon
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Speaker 3: and Auburn, and he's gonna be the first rookie quarterback
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Speaker 3: to start for the Broncos since John Elway.
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Speaker 4: He was a pretty good player.
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Speaker 5: I believe he's right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So when he takes his first nap at Leomenfield
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Speaker 3: on Sunday, he'll be become the fourteenth different starting quarterback
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Speaker 3: since Manning put on the uniform in twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 5: Bro I can only name like four that many.
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Speaker 3: It's hard goodness Stidham, Paston Lynch. But brock Osilo.
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Speaker 6: Had a receiver start at quarterback one game, Lindsay, the
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Speaker 6: running back from the Yeah, yes, anyway, So that's that's
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Speaker 6: not great obviously, but there's a lot of new hype
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Speaker 6: and optimism in Denver.
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Speaker 3: Bo next with twelfth overall pick in the first round
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Speaker 3: of this past year's drafts. And like I mentioned it,
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Speaker 3: fans in the Northwest known about bon Nicks because he
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Speaker 3: was a baller at Oregon, was a baller at Auburn,
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Speaker 3: and he took his game to the next level. I
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Speaker 3: feel like Bump when he came to Oregon. You got
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Speaker 3: to see a lot of these games working for the
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Speaker 3: Pac twelve that aren't rip, but I mean he was.
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Speaker 3: He threw for four thy five and eight yards, forty
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Speaker 3: five touchdowns and just three interceptions. He might have won
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Speaker 3: the Heisman if he didn't lose the udup two to
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Speaker 3: separate times. But if you look at the numbers, it
14:56
Speaker 3: definitely wasn't because of him.
14:58
Speaker 6: No.
14:59
Speaker 4: I mean, the dude is baller, so it'll be interesting.
15:01
Speaker 3: I feel like he could have been up there in
15:03
Speaker 3: the Heisman if, like I said, if they won those games.
15:05
Speaker 3: He led the NCAA and pass completions, completion percentage, passing touchdowns.
15:09
Speaker 3: You alluded to this earlier, sixty one starts in college crazy.
15:13
Speaker 3: That is insane.
15:14
Speaker 5: The fact that he was healthy for sixty one games
15:16
Speaker 5: it's itself is nuts.
15:19
Speaker 4: Yeah.
15:19
Speaker 3: I mean, you essentially are getting a veteran player coming
15:22
Speaker 3: out making that many starts and only playing He played
15:25
Speaker 3: high school football in Alabama, going in the SEC at
15:27
Speaker 3: Auburn high level. PAC twelve the best of Pac twelve
15:30
Speaker 3: was looked maybe ever this last season, so he's definitely
15:33
Speaker 3: battle tested in that bump and he's going against the
15:35
Speaker 3: Seahawks defense that was twenty first against the pass last year. Obviously,
15:38
Speaker 3: I expect things to change with Mike McDonald at the helm,
15:41
Speaker 3: but bump, when you look at that, what do you
15:43
Speaker 3: expect to see out of bow Knicks on Sunday?
15:45
Speaker 5: Man? I expect to see some rookie moments too.
15:47
Speaker 6: I mean, we got to praise him for what he
15:49
Speaker 6: did in college because it happened, but also his preseason
15:53
Speaker 6: was flawless. I think that out of the quarterbacks drafted
15:56
Speaker 6: in the first round, he had the best preseason. Yes,
15:59
Speaker 6: this preseason and things are vanilla, you're going up against
16:02
Speaker 6: twos and threes, but he did what he was supposed
16:03
Speaker 6: to do. So I'm expecting this guy to look like
16:06
Speaker 6: a rookie at times, but also look like a guy
16:08
Speaker 6: who's played the game for a long time.
16:11
Speaker 5: So we shall see.
16:12
Speaker 6: But uh mind we donald it after this young man
16:14
Speaker 6: confuse him and one or two interceptions would would be
16:17
Speaker 6: uh would be favorable for us? I think so for
16:20
Speaker 6: sure for Chefs five, Yeah, what last year was it?
16:24
Speaker 6: Last year the Giants four sacks, ten, ten, my bad
16:27
Speaker 6: shirt six.
16:29
Speaker 5: It was a lot, Yeah, it was a lot.
16:31
Speaker 4: To the record.
16:32
Speaker 6: Let's talk about our quarterback, Gino smith Man. This is
16:35
Speaker 6: his third year as the starting quarterback here. His twenty
16:38
Speaker 6: twenty two is better than his twenty twenty three, but
16:40
Speaker 6: he still did some good things. He led five game
16:43
Speaker 6: winning drives. My man was clutched. His seven goal ahead
16:46
Speaker 6: touchdown passes in the fourth quarter or overtime were the
16:48
Speaker 6: most in NFL history. He finished the year completing three
16:53
Speaker 6: hundred and twenty three of four ninety nine for thirty
16:55
Speaker 6: six hundred and twenty four yards, twenty touchdowns, and nine interceptions.
16:58
Speaker 5: How much better can this man be with this old line?
17:00
Speaker 6: You bring in some veterans, Lincoln Thomason, you got Connor Williams,
17:05
Speaker 6: you bring back Cross, you draft Christian Haynes. I'm tired
17:09
Speaker 6: of the carousel on this offensive line. But if that's
17:12
Speaker 6: gonna happen with this group, I feel better about it
17:14
Speaker 6: because of the mix of the old and the young.
17:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean obviously, and then you get a Lucas
17:19
Speaker 4: eventually going.
17:19
Speaker 5: To come back at some point.
17:20
Speaker 3: So while we're only returning, I believe for this first
17:24
Speaker 3: game one starter in Charles Cross because it was you
17:28
Speaker 3: had Evan Brown starting at center, Damian Lewis, Phil Haynes,
17:32
Speaker 3: and a Lucas Abe got hurt in that first game
17:34
Speaker 3: last year.
17:34
Speaker 4: So it's gonna be a different new look line. But
17:36
Speaker 4: I love it. Manlancoln Thomlinson one of the smartest dudes
17:38
Speaker 4: I've ever met. Mind you, that dude's going to be
17:40
Speaker 4: a doctor.
17:40
Speaker 3: All the crazy things there, and just you bring in
17:43
Speaker 3: to Connor Williams, who's a baller, and then Christian Haynes
17:46
Speaker 3: is going to eventually elevate Anthony Bradford's in there doing so.
17:49
Speaker 3: I feel good about this offensive line and where it
17:51
Speaker 3: could be. And I think Geno Smith could have a
17:52
Speaker 3: big year. And then of course Ryan Grubby in the
17:54
Speaker 3: quarterback player.
17:55
Speaker 6: Football Focus has some dudes like twenty seventh in the game.
17:58
Speaker 6: I like it, Thereyton, I like it keep Peyton because
18:01
Speaker 6: these boys are going to play some good football.
18:03
Speaker 3: And while we're talking about the offensive side of the ball,
18:05
Speaker 3: let's get into the running back Ken Walker right, also
18:08
Speaker 3: Zach Sharburn and Kenny Mckinjosh. I We've talked about it,
18:10
Speaker 3: but I really want to look at ken Walker because
18:11
Speaker 3: I feel like he his poison to have a pretty
18:13
Speaker 3: good season this year. His first two years in a
18:16
Speaker 3: Seahawk uniform. Twenty twenty two was when he was drafted.
18:19
Speaker 3: Last year, he was just under one thousand yards, had
18:21
Speaker 3: nine total touchdowns. His rushing numbers were slightly down from
18:25
Speaker 3: the year before, but we still saw that home run
18:27
Speaker 3: ability and that came out. He had a long and
18:29
Speaker 3: forty five on the ground.
18:30
Speaker 4: He had that.
18:30
Speaker 3: Sixty four yard pass reception touchdown. I think get a
18:33
Speaker 3: little dump back to the flat against the Commanders. Took
18:35
Speaker 3: that to the house. And he ranks fifte in the
18:37
Speaker 3: NFL since twenty twenty two with five games of at
18:40
Speaker 3: least two rushing touchdowns. And I know this is the
18:43
Speaker 3: season where people talk about how good of shape people
18:45
Speaker 3: are in right, right, But when you look at.
18:47
Speaker 4: Ken Walker, Mike like you look at he said, there's
18:49
Speaker 4: no way you don't rush for fifteen hundred yards.
18:52
Speaker 5: That's it.
18:52
Speaker 3: You look at it, you say, that's fifteen hundred yards.
18:55
Speaker 3: Bank it, write it down, do what you gotta do.
18:57
Speaker 3: The man looks phenomenal. His hair is a little different.
18:59
Speaker 4: He cut the hair.
19:00
Speaker 6: It's a new look, can I say something about that,
19:02
Speaker 6: say something. If you got a hair, don't cut it,
19:04
Speaker 6: because some of us ain't blessed like that.
19:06
Speaker 5: All Right.
19:06
Speaker 6: I saw Ken walk. I go, Ken, you do you baby,
19:09
Speaker 6: but keep the hair. But if he goes out and
19:12
Speaker 6: the balls out and he's bald, and then then I'll
19:14
Speaker 6: shut my mouth.
19:15
Speaker 5: But maybe that's just me being jealous.
19:17
Speaker 3: I think you're a little hurt. But we used to
19:19
Speaker 3: like your hair back in the day. Yeah, for allow
19:20
Speaker 3: Kok fans out there, remember bump with hair, good thing
19:23
Speaker 3: twenty years ago. Damn it almost anyway. No, but Ken,
19:28
Speaker 3: he's been crushing it. Career numbers, He's got nine hundred
19:31
Speaker 3: and one, nine hundred and fifty five yards, seventeen touchdowns.
19:35
Speaker 3: I just think he's a guy that's really going to
19:36
Speaker 3: go off this year. And now you enter Ryan Grubb
19:39
Speaker 3: or we know he did at Washington, right, we know
19:41
Speaker 3: all the all the dudes playing the NFL, all the receivers.
19:44
Speaker 3: But he has an offensive line background. He's going to
19:46
Speaker 3: run the pill and he's made that very evident. They
19:48
Speaker 3: asked Ken Metcalf about that in his press conference today
19:50
Speaker 3: and he's like, no, our foundation is going to be
19:53
Speaker 3: running the football, and it's going to start with number nine.
19:55
Speaker 3: I think you sprinkle in Zach Starburney, he'll come out
19:57
Speaker 3: there and hit you. And then Kenny McIntosh talked about
19:59
Speaker 3: early he looked great this preseason.
20:01
Speaker 6: You give him some spin. I think that running back
20:03
Speaker 6: room can do some damage. Bump, Yeah, it looks good,
20:05
Speaker 6: It looks good. Didn't see Ken Walker at all this preseason?
20:08
Speaker 4: Did we a little bit?
20:09
Speaker 5: A little bit?
20:09
Speaker 6: Quick saw Zach sharp and they a lot of Kenny
20:11
Speaker 6: McIntosh really happy for that kid. Just staying mentally engaged
20:15
Speaker 6: because when you don't get no playing time, you're coming
20:17
Speaker 6: from Georgia, win the national championships, you get to the
20:20
Speaker 6: league and you don't touch the rock, it could mess
20:22
Speaker 6: with you mentally.
20:22
Speaker 5: So I'm glad he hung in there. But it's all
20:25
Speaker 5: about knin Man.
20:26
Speaker 6: Canin is gonna set the tone and I'm glad that
20:28
Speaker 6: grub came out and said, look, we're gonna run the football.
20:30
Speaker 6: Johnson the running back for you to rush for eleven
20:32
Speaker 6: hundred yards. People forget that. You get Michael Pennigs and
20:36
Speaker 6: like it makes sense. You see the ball flying everywhere,
20:38
Speaker 6: you think, oh yeah they passed the football, but they
20:40
Speaker 6: do run the rock and Grub's gonna set the tone there.
20:43
Speaker 4: Man.
20:44
Speaker 6: All right, let's let's talk about some of these receivers.
20:45
Speaker 6: I think this is one of the best trios in
20:47
Speaker 6: the game right now. We got DK, Tyler Lockett, and JSN.
20:50
Speaker 6: They're going up against that bronkle secondary Pactice Sertain just
20:54
Speaker 6: got paid highest paid corner in the game ever. Right now,
20:57
Speaker 6: It's gonna be a nice little matchup. But DK and
21:00
Speaker 6: Tyler Locke and one of the best duels in franchise history.
21:02
Speaker 6: DK became the seventh player in franchise history to record
21:05
Speaker 6: back to back thousand yard seasons. He also became the
21:08
Speaker 6: third player in NFL history to reach fifty receptions and
21:11
Speaker 6: nine hundred yards and five touchdowns in each of his
21:14
Speaker 6: first five seasons. He hanging out with Randy Moss in
21:17
Speaker 6: AJ Green. That's some great company there.
21:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so any signed me on the list
21:22
Speaker 3: with those two. I don't even care if my name
21:23
Speaker 3: is on the same piece of paper. We're not the
21:25
Speaker 3: wrong reasons. I will take it. That's a list I
21:26
Speaker 3: want to be on. But you just look at I mean, gosh,
21:29
Speaker 3: and then Tyler second player in franchise history, ninety fourth
21:32
Speaker 3: player in NFL history for with six hundred receptions.
21:35
Speaker 4: That's a lot. Man moved into second.
21:37
Speaker 3: Place in franchise history and receptions six hundred and twelve
21:40
Speaker 3: yards seven nine hundred and ninety four and ranks second
21:43
Speaker 3: in touchdowns. The Ball of Famer of the Go Steve
21:46
Speaker 3: Largen is first in every single category.
21:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't even know.
21:49
Speaker 3: If DJ can catch him, because what Largent was doing
21:52
Speaker 3: is he's otherworldly. So being second to that man is
21:55
Speaker 3: totally fine. But and he's just six yards away from
21:59
Speaker 3: being a second player in franch history in one hundred
22:00
Speaker 3: and thirteenth player in NFL history with eight thousand receiving yards.
22:04
Speaker 3: Bump Lockett has had a quiet preseason mainly because they
22:07
Speaker 3: want to keep this guy healthy.
22:08
Speaker 4: We know what he can do. He doesn't need to
22:09
Speaker 4: prove anything in this league coming into year ten.
22:12
Speaker 3: We know what he can do, So Bump, I'm just
22:13
Speaker 3: really excited to see what these guys can do. And
22:15
Speaker 3: then you add in JSN solid rookie campaign. Remember he
22:18
Speaker 3: started the year with a broke kind of a mess
22:20
Speaker 3: up risk, but he found his way towards the end
22:22
Speaker 3: of the season, had some game winning touchdowns, finished the
22:25
Speaker 3: year you know, sixty three receptions, second most receptions in
22:28
Speaker 3: for a rookie and franchise history bump. So, as you mentioned,
22:31
Speaker 3: these three receivers can't be the best in the NFL.
22:34
Speaker 3: You add Ryan Grubb, Gino Smith, I'm excited about what
22:36
Speaker 3: they can do.
22:37
Speaker 6: Metcalf has sixty six for eleven hundred, Lockett at seventy
22:40
Speaker 6: nine for eight to ninety four. Then you sprinkle in
22:43
Speaker 6: the rookie last year JSN sixty three for six twenty eight.
22:46
Speaker 6: There's gonna be an upticking all those numbers. I believe,
22:49
Speaker 6: And I'm not just saying that because I support the Hawks.
22:51
Speaker 6: I'm looking at preseason, what happened in practice, the way
22:54
Speaker 6: Grub is calling things, and I think the sky's a
22:56
Speaker 6: limit for this group.
22:57
Speaker 5: Man, they could be.
22:59
Speaker 6: Now, there's only a couple of the trios that I
23:01
Speaker 6: think about that can rock with these guys. You got
23:02
Speaker 6: one in Houston that's pretty good. Yeah, you got one
23:04
Speaker 6: in Philly that's pretty good. And then the Dolphins have
23:07
Speaker 6: a trio that's pretty good. But Beckham's banged up. So
23:09
Speaker 6: we'll see. These three can be right out there with them,
23:12
Speaker 6: and if Gino spins it, the ole line protects, ken
23:15
Speaker 6: Walker runs all comes together boom division.
23:19
Speaker 4: I don't get it. I hope so. And they're going
23:20
Speaker 4: against this never defense bump. We talked about it.
23:22
Speaker 3: They struggled last year, man, and it was headlined by
23:25
Speaker 3: that seventy to twenty beat down in Miami. I almost
23:27
Speaker 3: forgot about that. Yeah, and I think that really for
23:30
Speaker 3: anyone who knows anything about math. I'm not a good
23:32
Speaker 3: math guy, but when you throw one of those in,
23:34
Speaker 3: it's like your GPA.
23:35
Speaker 4: I think I've talked about this on this show.
23:37
Speaker 3: I had one really bad semester sophomore of college, huh,
23:40
Speaker 3: and mycume GPA was messed up right, never got back.
23:43
Speaker 3: I never got it fixed, even though I was okay.
23:45
Speaker 3: I was a three point zero for most of it,
23:46
Speaker 3: but that one sophomore year messed up. That really hurt
23:50
Speaker 3: the Denver stats last year, giving up a seventy burger
23:52
Speaker 3: against Miami.
23:53
Speaker 4: But they just struggled.
23:54
Speaker 3: They're twenty second overall against the past, and now they're
23:57
Speaker 3: having to replace Justin Simmons, all safety, who did a
24:01
Speaker 3: lot of good things for them.
24:02
Speaker 4: He's now in Atlanta.
24:03
Speaker 3: But they just got the man you just talked about
24:05
Speaker 3: who got paid Patrick Sutan, the second father of Is
24:08
Speaker 3: played in the league as well in twenty twenty two.
24:12
Speaker 3: Not that it's apples and Oranges Termber comparison, but DK
24:15
Speaker 3: only had thirty six yards in that game, so he's
24:16
Speaker 3: a guy that can obviously play and be physical and
24:19
Speaker 3: do some good things. They're gonna line up essentially a
24:21
Speaker 3: rookie at the other corner, which I'm interested at.
24:23
Speaker 4: Riley Moss. He the kid out of Iowa.
24:26
Speaker 3: He mainly played special teams last year, but everything I'm
24:29
Speaker 3: hearing coming out of Denver is that he's probably gonna
24:30
Speaker 3: start at corner.
24:31
Speaker 4: Yep, So that's a matchup.
24:33
Speaker 3: I want to see the Seahawks exploit test this man,
24:35
Speaker 3: because not that DK or anyone's afraid of certain and
24:38
Speaker 3: they're gonna throw the ball who's open. But I feel
24:41
Speaker 3: like we can get after Moss, who's really under the
24:43
Speaker 3: bright lights for the first time at this level and
24:45
Speaker 3: under fire.
24:46
Speaker 4: So I'm excited about what it can be. Bump.
24:49
Speaker 3: But man, let's tell everybody you've been waiting for, how
24:52
Speaker 3: are the Seahawks gonna win this game?
24:53
Speaker 4: Pat the victory.
24:56
Speaker 2: After forty five waits for the staff, Michael Dickson puts
24:59
Speaker 2: it there that kick is away.
25:01
Speaker 4: If that kick.
25:02
Speaker 3: Is gun, good, say off when bitch.
25:05
Speaker 1: Gun, it's a pass, it's a victory On Hawke Talk.
25:08
Speaker 6: Here's how the Seahawks are gonna get this thing done.
25:11
Speaker 6: It all starts with Mike McDonald. He's been preaching it
25:14
Speaker 6: from the top of Mount Rain near. I want to
25:17
Speaker 6: play a style of football that people just don't want
25:19
Speaker 6: to play against.
25:19
Speaker 5: And what does that look like.
25:20
Speaker 6: Is efficient a line of sign execut They're gonna pop
25:23
Speaker 6: you in the mouth. They're gonna take advantage of every opportunity.
25:26
Speaker 6: I can't wait to see how fast these guys fly around,
25:28
Speaker 6: because we got to see the starters for a little bit.
25:30
Speaker 6: If there's anyone that we saw on the defense side
25:33
Speaker 6: of the ball, we saw the starters more than the
25:34
Speaker 6: offense side of the ball. And those guys were flying
25:36
Speaker 6: around with a sprinkle of twos and threes in there.
25:38
Speaker 6: So I can't wait to see what it looks like
25:40
Speaker 6: when they're all out there at the same time. And
25:42
Speaker 6: then defensively, the Seahawks need to make the young QB
25:45
Speaker 6: look like a young quarterback, make him uncomfortable.
25:48
Speaker 5: You gotta blitz him, you gotta stun him. Do all
25:50
Speaker 5: of that stuff.
25:50
Speaker 6: Make him use those sixty one games right he had
25:53
Speaker 6: in college and put him to the test.
25:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, and stop the run. Right.
25:58
Speaker 3: The Broncos are very young, right back. They let go
26:01
Speaker 3: of some veteran guys, and this is where the Seahawks
26:03
Speaker 3: really got hurt last year. They got beat up in
26:05
Speaker 3: the run game all season long. And I think this
26:07
Speaker 3: is one of the biggest improvements that this defense will
26:09
Speaker 3: look to make in twenty twenty four, especially with Mike
26:11
Speaker 3: McDonald coming in. I feel like there's a big emthaths
26:14
Speaker 3: on that they're gonna stop the run. That's what they
26:15
Speaker 3: need to do on Sunday. There should be no big
26:18
Speaker 3: numbers in the run game for the Broncos. And then
26:21
Speaker 3: I said, at the beginning of the podcast, Unleash Mike
26:23
Speaker 3: McDonald his genius.
26:24
Speaker 4: Right, we've heard about it.
26:26
Speaker 3: We're finally gonna see it preseasons vanilla, right, Mike McDonald's
26:30
Speaker 3: it was French vanilla. Though it was good vanilla. Oh,
26:32
Speaker 3: I mean not basic vanilla. I mean, don't get me wrong,
26:34
Speaker 3: I like vanilla. You feel me French. But now we're
26:37
Speaker 3: gonna get We're gonna max some sprinkles, maybe some some cookie.
26:40
Speaker 3: Though you know what I mean, some mint chocolate chip.
26:42
Speaker 3: I don't know all the things like you, but no,
26:44
Speaker 3: it's gonna be I'm excited to see what kind of pressure,
26:46
Speaker 3: what kind of stunts, what kind of games, what kind
26:48
Speaker 3: of different coverages are gonna throw out these guys, especially
26:50
Speaker 3: the young quarterback bump.
26:52
Speaker 4: So I'm excited to see.
26:53
Speaker 3: We're not gonna get the whole package, but just what
26:56
Speaker 3: different looks that Mike McDonald could come up with and
26:58
Speaker 3: see what happens on Sunday.
27:00
Speaker 5: Set that foundation and offensively start fast.
27:03
Speaker 6: Take care of the rock now interceptions, no fumbles, no
27:06
Speaker 6: procedure penalties. That's the thing, man, I would love to
27:09
Speaker 6: watch a game of no penalties. What's probably gonna happen.
27:11
Speaker 5: You know, this is it's football. What six happened? It's
27:13
Speaker 5: the first week.
27:13
Speaker 6: But let's limit those things and then establish an identity.
27:17
Speaker 5: Grub says that he wants to run the football. Let's
27:19
Speaker 5: see that.
27:20
Speaker 6: I love the counter that they put in the RPOs
27:23
Speaker 6: that we got a glimpse of with Sam Howell over
27:24
Speaker 6: there backing up Gino during the preseason.
27:27
Speaker 5: It was a great situation. And then get it to
27:28
Speaker 5: K nine.
27:29
Speaker 6: Let him loose my man's thighs are as big as
27:32
Speaker 6: that door right there.
27:33
Speaker 3: Let them things go to work, man, canine this it's
27:38
Speaker 3: I'm excited like the you know, we talk about this
27:40
Speaker 3: all the time the beginning of the year. There's all
27:42
Speaker 3: this optimism, all that stuff, But I'm excited from what
27:45
Speaker 3: we've seen. We've got to see it from when Mike
27:46
Speaker 3: McDonald and his staff stepped in. John Schneider hasn't gone anywhere.
27:50
Speaker 3: He's been running this thing forever. He knows what he's doing.
27:52
Speaker 3: So it's finally exciting to see all the work the
27:55
Speaker 3: scouts to all the work, the pro personnel guys, to
27:58
Speaker 3: Nolan Teasley, John Schneider at Barry, all those guys, then
28:01
Speaker 3: the coaches down to the guys you're gonna see on
28:03
Speaker 3: the field on Sunday. People are putting the work in
28:05
Speaker 3: since I don't know, February bump.
28:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we're good job giving them do some love too. Man.
28:10
Speaker 3: There's so many people that stuff in this building that
28:12
Speaker 3: people know nothing about. Man, but everyone's gonna get to
28:15
Speaker 3: see what that be displayed hopefully on Sunday, and hopefully
28:18
Speaker 3: that's where the Seahawks win. Give the twelve something to
28:20
Speaker 3: go crazy. About and the new era of Mike McDonald.
28:23
Speaker 3: Start one to oh get man, Bump. It's so good
28:26
Speaker 3: to be back with you, job back on video. Appreciate
28:29
Speaker 3: y'all for watching and listening. This has been Hawk Talk.
28:32
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Speaker 4: Sit Your Serious, x M, and more. Till next time.
28:41
Speaker 3: We will be with you next week, hopefully recapping a
28:43
Speaker 3: Seahawks victory over the Broncos.