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Week 3 Postgame Reaction: Seahawks Defense Crushes Dolphins · Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

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>> Brandan Schulze: This is the Sea Hawkers Podcast,
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live and Uncatfished. Fished. I'm Brandan
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Schulze of the Military Sea Hawkers, joined by my good buddy and
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Montana Sea Hawker Adam Emmert, as our
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Seahawks have gone to 3-0, beating
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the stupid Miami dolphins
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24 to three. How's it going,
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buddy?
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>> Adam Emmert: Hey, it's going great, man. What a fantastic Sunday. Got to
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go over to my buddy James's, new rental cabin that
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sits on top of this beautiful vista and
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watch it on the big screen and watch the
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Seahawks. I mean, they cruised to victory,
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but it could have been more cruise. We can get to that. but then also
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to see that the Niners go down and the cards go down,
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and everything in the world is just
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rosy and everything's a little greener. the Lacroix
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tastes a little better. What a day.
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>> Brandan Schulze: It was a fun day watching our Seahawks get out to
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a 17 point first
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half, because I don't know, I've always.
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After going through many years of not being able to win the
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game until the fourth quarter, I like to get out to
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that early lead. They got out to that early
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lead, and maybe I would have liked to see them keep the foot on the gas
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a little bit longer. I feel weird being too complaining
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now that our Seahawks are three and. Oh, Adam. But
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there were some ugly football kind of in between,
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the 17 point quarter
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and then the final quarter where they. They
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come back after, you know, Miami nearly is.
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They're on the goal line, they're about to score. We get the
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stop on the goal line, and then we drive it down the field.
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No safeties, but everything in between that,
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I could forget about.
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>> Adam Emmert: Yeah, there was that stretch there from about
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second quarter to beginning of the fourth, where it got
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real rugged offensively, but if we don't want to be super complex right
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out of the gate, let's talk about the defense. Look, I understand that
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they're playing a offense without their starting quarterback
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and a backup that isn't
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highly heralded or anything like that, but you
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still got to beat these dudes. You got to go out there and do it. You would expect
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the defense to perform like this
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against that sort of team, but you still got to go out there and do
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it to meet that expectation. And, boy, did they do
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it. I mean, you think about Gino throwing the
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pick out of the end zone and setting
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them up right there, cracking on the goal
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line, and the defense said, no, they kept him
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out, held him to three there. So Gino didn't take the
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safety, but we still ended up giving up three. But
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my goodness. Like, the defense all day long
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just stood up and said no all day. It was fantastic.
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Flying around.
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>> Brandan Schulze: A lot of good play from the defense. We've got our Ryan
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911 coming in with our live
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executive producer donation 999
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super chat. Three and oh, with a shutout
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caliber. 60 minutes of defensive
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domination. And that is a good place to
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start with the defense. We had Derek hall with two sacks on
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the day. We had Dotson, who, came in
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with a nice sack up the middle to shut down a
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drive that had gotten started moving a little bit. And
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unfortunately, it was also that hit that took out Skyler Thompson. And.
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And maybe we ended up seeing the better quarterback come
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in and play, but I don't
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know. I I was almost to the point to
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where I was feeling a little bit bad for
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our opponents. And I was also, like, kind of happy it
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wasn't to, back there. Cause I didn't want to see anything bad happen to him
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again. The, defense definitely punished the Dolphins.
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>> Adam Emmert: Today 100% in early in the game. The
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Dolphins were able to get on the perimeter a little bit here and
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there, and you finally saw
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them take that away, set that edge nice and
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hard, keep them inside. They did get us on a couple inside run plays,
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but nothing crazy. And at that point,
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then you get up a couple scores, and they got to
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drop back and pass it a little bit. And then that's when you saw the pass
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rush really come to life. And holy smokes, they
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were all over the quarterback today, and
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it was a ball to watch.
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>> Brandan Schulze: Another thing that is something we should
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celebrate right out of the gate is I,
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see Corey Coolman in the chat saying, love the outcome this
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weekend. Saw the Cardinals lose to the Lions. We saw
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the Rams beat the Niners on a last second field
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goal. And that, that part of it was fun,
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too.
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>> Adam Emmert: Hey, I can't complain a lick other than if you could
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somehow give the Rams a loss in there as well. But,
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hey, man, that's the way that games, work. But
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it's about as perfect as you could hope
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for, a, start to the season being three and, oh, I
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honestly expected this team to struggle record wise
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out of the gate, just with the new coaching staff and trying
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to make everything fit. And I think it's helpful that
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we haven't played world beaters, you know, Broncos, Patriots,
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Dolphins here, but you still have to go out
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there and win those football games, and they got
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it done. And three and o, a nice
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little lead in the division out of the gate.
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That feels nice.
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>> Brandan Schulze: Well, and especially too, when you look
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at. Yeah, I'll go back to the defense
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and their ability to shut things down. Yes,
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it does help going up against backup level quarterbacks,
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but when you hold Skyler to just 107
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yards passing, I guess the other thing that was impressive, and I saw someone
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mention this in chat, you know, when you make some of their
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stars feel irrelevant. And so when you look
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at Devon a. Chan, eleven carries, 30 yards
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under three yards per carry. Tyree kill,
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40 yards on the day shoot d
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escrit on his one catch almost surpassed everything
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that, Tyree kill had today. And then you
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also out of the backfield, 28 yards on
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three catches. Waddle only 26 yards. So
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yeah, when you look down that list and you see just
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how, how much you took away in terms
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of their star performers, it
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really was a good performance by the defense.
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>> Adam Emmert: Really, the only weapon I was super afraid of coming into
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this game was a Chan, just because
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he is an effective runner in a heck of a back
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in with all the speed in the world. But I did figure if
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they could figure out how to keep him contained in between the tackles, that
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that would be something that we could actually
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rally around and kind of shut him down on. Now, with
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Tyreek, I didn't worry about him in this game
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only because, I mean, I worry about Tyree kill otherwise in every
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other game only because it was going to be difficult for them to push
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the ball down the field. I mean, really, of all
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the quarterbacks that could have been starting this weekend, the only guy that
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can't push the ball further down the field into it is
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maybe Skyler Thompson. So it was going to be difficult
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for them to get him involved that way and really stretch
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the field vertically. And then
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it was both. I kind of root for it and I'm happy for
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the guy, but a little annoying to watch d Eskridge
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come in and catch a 30 yard pass. I think that was more than he did
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for the Seahawks in his entire time here, and a guy that
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I always kind of rooted for. So, but yeah, at the end of
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the day, waddle didn't do much except for a couple of little
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crossers in. It was a dominant
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performance by the.
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>> Brandan Schulze: Defense all the way around, Matthew Phillips and chat saying
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clearly, escridge is their best wide receiver. The
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unfortunate part is that Eskridge has that one catch and now
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he'll be on IR for the next six weeks. And that's
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unfortunately what you deal with with regard to d, but
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maybe, maybe he'll buck the trend now that he's down in Miami,
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hey, rooting for him.
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>> Adam Emmert: Really, the only bad news out of, today is
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something that Amy brings up here, defensively
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speaking, is the injury to Leo
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Williams and Byron Murphy. ribs. That's
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something that I look at and I go, well, okay. I mean, that's something
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that a guy's going to come back from. Maybe he needs to sit out
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a week or something along those lines, but it's usually not too
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bad. What worries me is the hamstring
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for Byron Murphy. Like,
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soft tissue, man. Hamstrings and
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calves and that sort of thing, that gets me a little
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spooked.
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>> Brandan Schulze: Yeah. And when you have a couple of the guys in the middle of the
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defense, that fortunately, they do have some
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depth there with Hankins, with Jay Reid
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and Miles Adams, even. But,
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yeah, those are two guys that you want to make sure that,
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yeah, you aren't missing for all that long.
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And with ribs, I guess we'll wait and see.
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But neither of those guys ended up coming back into the game
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in terms of some of the star defenders, though.
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Derek hall, two sacks, one tackle for a
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loss. Interesting. I guess we only had a quota of
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one tackle for a loss per defender. Like, you couldn't go over that.
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But, several guys registering that with Jared Reed,
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we've got Jones, we got mafe
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love, Dotson, hall and knight,
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all getting a tackle for a loss.
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>> Adam Emmert: M this must mean that Mike McDonald is a
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communist defensive, coordinator. Like, nobody can
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hoard all the tackle for losses. Everybody has to have an equal
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outcome. Yeah, that's what we can take away from that.
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No, look, I think that really just shows, like,
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how versatile the system is in how
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everybody can eat at any given time, depending,
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on the situation. And I think that's why the players
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have so much buy in to this defensive scheme, is
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that they know that Mike's got them in position.
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When the offense does something that actually plays into
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the scheme that is going to allow them to make the play, they've
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got easy decisions to make. It can play fast. And then the
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tackling, my buddy James talking about it all throughout the game,
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just how much better the tackling has
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been this year in comparison to the last
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couple in. Boy, it just, it is a breath of
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fresh air.
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>> Brandan Schulze: Speaker. Two, while we're on defense, though, one, I will say that
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I saw something I don't know if I've had ever
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seen before in the NFL with regard to
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defense. I don't know if I've ever seen a one man, pass
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rush at the end of the first
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half, it was a little bit fun because you're
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like, well, what's the quarterback going to do? He can't just dance around back
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there all day. But, it almost made you think that
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maybe that's what he was going to do.
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>> Adam Emmert: I just really enjoyed watching that because obviously all the
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receivers are now off the screen, so all you really get to watch is Drake
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Thomas trying like hell to, like, get through
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five dudes and, man, give him an a for
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effort. Like he was getting smacked around by two, three guys
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at a time. He didn't care. Just still putting his nose in there.
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That was a lot of fun. but what I did like about
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it is just the idea of, like, look fine. Like,
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I don't have to rush anybody, really. We'll put
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everybody back. You're not scoring here. You're just not scoring
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here in, oh, yeah, that was,
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that was cool.
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>> Brandan Schulze: I felt a little bad for the guy because he didn't have any help at
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all, but, and thank goodness,
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some of the offensive linemen just stood there because they could have all,
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just all four of them. How many were there?
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Five, six? just ganged up five and, and put
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them on the ground. Yeah, five makes sense because that's how many offensive linemen
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there were. But I couldn't remember if somebody else stayed back to help too or
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not.
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>> Adam Emmert: I like how some of the dudes on the right side of their line, like,
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still kind of fanned out that way, pretended like there was somebody
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maybe to guard there. That was
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interesting. I, never have seen that in my life. That was,
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that was cool. Yeah. A lot like seeing 236 people
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in here at this point, this early in the pod. I don't know that we've ever
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seen that. That's awesome, man. We appreciate you guys. If you
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neat. hit subscribe because of awesome defensive play
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today and that our Mikey M. boy, just
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floundered that our Mike McDonald better than their,
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Mike. So that was fun.
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>> Brandan Schulze: Our Mike Mac better than their mike Mack here. I helped you out
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just a little bit.
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>> Adam Emmert: Wow. Fail. It's like,
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it's like I played offense for the Seahawks in the second
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and third quarter. It was just a failure there.
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>> Brandan Schulze: Mike Mack, though, was, very gifable all
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day, so that, he had that going for him. Yeah.
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When you talk about offense,
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one thing that I don't know if I've ever
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seen on the offensive side is
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when you're up two scores for
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almost the entire game and yet
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go 75% pass
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to run ratio. I don't know if I've ever seen that, in
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the NFL either.
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>> Adam Emmert: It's interesting. We talked about that a lot in
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the Patriots matchup about the run pass ratio
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and how we want to get to maybe something a little bit different, because I think
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it's more sustainable. But with that
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said, in this particular game,
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I hold grub a little less accountable
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for that. Only because the players didn't help him
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out here. I mean, how many times we in second
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and 23rd and twice there was a, ah, something in 20
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on, I think, five drives in a row.
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>> Brandan Schulze: We never got to fourth and 39 like the Dolphins did.
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So, we at least had that one at that going for us as far
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as officiating. And I guess it impacted both
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teams because it really was, it seemed
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like every time a team, whether it was us or the
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Dolphins, would run on first down, there would be a holding
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penalty called, and then it would be first and 20 or second
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and 20, and both teams are dealing with that
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offensively. So, yeah, we got Marty
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gately in the chat saying, cross seems to be the only part of the o
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line that I can trust. It felt that way. He did
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get beat on one sack on the day, but cross has
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been the most consistent of the offensive linemen all day.
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Getting a push inside the run game. It
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wasn't really there up until the fourth quarter, and. And so
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you end up with a stat line that looks pretty decent. You got
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charbonnet, 18 carries, 91 yards, an average of five yards
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per carry. Like, that's a solid stat line with the two
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touchdowns. And even with Gino, 26 at
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34, 289 looks relatively efficient until you get
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to the int part of it. But, you know, those weren't
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necessarily on G. No, either. That was guys getting their hands
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up, tip passes go into the defense. maybe a
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little on Gino, just in terms of trying to make things happen where
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he didn't need to.
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>> Adam Emmert: Gino was awesome today, except for on one decision.
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>> Brandan Schulze: Just one.
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>> Adam Emmert: And to me, yeah, that was the one out of
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the end zone where he decides
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to try to not take the safety and, like, just dirt it at
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his feet. Like, don't try to actually complete it to
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charbonnet. Ends up high,
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charms, bumps, it up into the air, picked
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off. That was super frustrating. Cause you felt
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like at any given point after that first quarter, you're like,
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just one more score in this game is over, like,
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just completely over. Otherwise, you
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can around and find out what this team and let them
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hang. But, that was the one part
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of Gino today that I was, like, the first one on
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him. Second one. Look, Clay is
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Campbell. He's been terrorizing our organization for who knows how
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long, and, probably for the rest of time, too. I don't think he's ever
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going to retire. And he gets his big paws up
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right as Gino releases the ball. Not a lot you can do about
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that. That's just bad.
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>> Brandan Schulze: Okay, so you said one
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bad decision.
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I guarantee you I can find one other one that you will agree
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with me on. And that is when he was getting pressure inside the
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pocket, he tried to
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just throw, the ball. Even though there
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was no wide receiver there. It was clearly an intentional
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grounding penalty, and it didn't need to be taken.
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Just take the sack there.
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>> Adam Emmert: Yeah, sure. I mean, you were in second or third and
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20 plus again either way, so who gives a crap?
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Like, yeah, but you're right, it wasn't the perfect decision.
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But I don't think that is nearly as impactful
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as the interception.
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>> Brandan Schulze: I just. I had to find one other one because you said just one, and so
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I. I had another one that immediately came to mind.
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>> Adam Emmert: So I appreciate you taking the challenge
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to it, man. Yeah. Neener. Neener, you win.
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Yeah.
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>> Brandan Schulze: DK Metcalf for catches, 104 yards
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and two. Just, what? One, the wild
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catch on the sideline where it catches it over the
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top of the dude and not only gets 2ft in
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bounds, I think he gets them those same 2ft
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down twice in a row and, stays
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in bounds. So incredible play there. That helps set up the
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charbonnet touchdown. And then he gets the touchdown
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of his own, getting behind the defense and then just pulling
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away.
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>> Adam Emmert: DK again, the huge shot downfield
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in those contested catches, man, that's what we want to see out
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of him. That's what we've been begging for out of him on the
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regular, and it seems like
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he has worked on it over the offseason. It feels like it's
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more of a strength than a liability, say, in
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years.
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>> Brandan Schulze: Previous, no offense, six catches, 60
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yards. It was nice to see the tight end getting involved a little bit, too.
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Barner, three catches, 13 yards. Yeah.
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Sugar bizkit. Noah Fant finally showed up today.
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Yeah. Okay.
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>> Adam Emmert: Yeah, he had a couple catches here, right?
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>> Brandan Schulze: You poo poo and no offense. Game for. That was a nice day by
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him.
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>> Adam Emmert: Yeah, it was fine. Yeah. I'm not doing a
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backflips over that one, like. But then again, I don't
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know how much of it is his fall. I just don't
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see a history with grubs play calling
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that shows me the tight ends are going to get, a bunch of love in
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his offense. And so for as many opportunities,
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I guess it was six receptions. Well,
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fine. That was a very good game by Noah fat. He showed up
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today. You guys are all right. Good job.
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>> Brandan Schulze: I think where it changed up was
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in the second half. We had that long period of
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where every single drive, it seemed like there were penalties. It
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was killing the, just the, any kind of sense
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of tempo that either team had going on.
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And finally, grub kind of, he went to that quick
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passing game, which, you know, for the longest stretch, it
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felt like, okay, we're not running the ball, we're trying
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all these deep passes. And yes, the
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offensive line isn't holding up, but are we doing
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anything to help out the offensive line? And
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I felt that finally, it was when that drive, and they're
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hitting no offhand over the middle, they're hit some shots to lock
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it. Jason finally got involved. It felt like they
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went up tempo, they went with the short throws,
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and it kind of took us out of that couple of
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quarters where it felt like the offense was doing nothing.
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>> Adam Emmert: I'm curious if they could get
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downhill, a little bit, that they would
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actually be able to, you know, sustain
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the drives and actually do it on a more regular
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basis. I think that's really it is. What we've seen through the offense
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through the first couple games here is that it's very
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streaky, and I think maybe that's what I
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was trying to allude to when it came to some
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of the concerns I
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had coming into this season with the way the offense might go
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and run pass ratio kind of things. And I
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think we're seeing that play out here a little bit. Again, we're
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going through dubs here, and if they can learn
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while stacking the Dubs, then that'd be
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great.
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>> Brandan Schulze: Third down efficiency, not the greatest today. Theory
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of eleven for 27%. A big part of
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that was they were into so many third longs
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and penalties having to do with a big part of
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that. Again, both teams having to deal with that.
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But, yeah, third down efficiency, not great
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for them. Even worse for the Dolphins. One of twelve,
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only 8% on third down and 0%
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on all of their fourth down attempts. They had three of
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them.
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>> Adam Emmert: Yeah. again, it's credit to the defense and, you know,
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keeping them from converting there and really shutting
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the door on them, really coming back, since he did let
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him hang around for so long. you know, I saw sugar man.
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They're talking about how he thought the play calling is
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elite. Okay. if you're, if
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you're into, you know, just throw it all over the yard kind of football,
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and that's your thing. then, yeah, I'm sure it was
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elite, just not for me. It's not my taste.
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And I think that there's some more consistency to be had within the
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offense if they can get to running the football, which,
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again, will help the offensive line, which had
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another really up and down performance today.
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>> Brandan Schulze: If the offensive line is struggling and
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it is that clear, you got to make a shift a
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little bit sooner away from some of those long
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developing plays and not just hoping that one of those
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shots is going to hit once again, that pulls you ahead. I
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want to see more m ball control, sustained
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drives, rather than, yeah, just going for the big
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play consistently.
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>> Adam Emmert: Hey, I like the explosiveness. You're going to need to have
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those. That's one of the biggest, difference
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makers for top level offenses is the amount of
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explosives. But with that said,
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yes, you do need the meat and potatoes of the playbook
19:53
to kind of get you going. And
19:56
my concern is, is that
19:58
in the colder months of the year, when we get towards the end of
20:01
the year, that if you're meat potatoes is a short passing
20:04
game, it gets a lot harder for a team.
20:06
>> Brandan Schulze: Yeah, get Kenny McIntosh a little bit more involved. He only had
20:09
three carries, but it was nice to
20:12
see Charbonnet kind of punishing
20:14
that Miami defense toward the end of the game and
20:17
then picking up a second touchdown, for sure.
20:20
>> Adam Emmert: getting the executive producer Ryan's comment
20:23
here, that is a true fact that they
20:26
ran the ball more than 50% of the time, in
20:29
game one. It's also a true fact that they, ran the ball
20:31
around 25% to 30% in the last
20:34
two. And then also in game one, that was
20:37
the game where, if you recall, Gino was under
20:40
freaking siege, like, they couldn't block anything,
20:43
and so they almost were forced to
20:46
go to the run game to get things going, rather
20:49
than it being something that's setting up the rest of the offense and being
20:52
a complimentary part of their offensive play
20:55
calling. So, as far as that being a data point that
20:58
I look at and say, yeah, that's what they want to be, and that's where they want to get
21:01
to, I'm not sure I see it that way.
21:02
>> Brandan Schulze: But again, I'll just go back to just my surprise that
21:05
when you're up by 14 points
21:08
that there wasn't a little bit more running mixed in. But I
21:11
think you countered that with the penalties thing. So I, that would be
21:14
one thing on rewatch that I'd want to go back and check and just
21:17
see how many of those drives were killed
21:20
by, you know, early down penalties
21:23
that put them behind the sticks to where then they were having to
21:26
pass so frequently.
21:27
>> Adam Emmert: Yeah.
21:28
And again, I'll be
21:31
thrilled to see what they do against the Lions. I think it's going to be
21:34
fascinating to see with. I
21:36
imagine that canine's back for that game. He's got to be back. He's going to be back.
21:40
Right? He's going to be back.
21:41
>> Brandan Schulze: Yeah, we, we want k nine back. We
21:44
want to back because this could be
21:46
the Nuosu return game. The reason why he didn't go on
21:49
IR because it would be four weeks. We kind of thought
21:52
that it would be around the Lions time
21:55
before he could get back and,
21:58
yeah, without those two guys, then I don't like our
22:01
chances as much. It'll be fun watching the Lions. We got Derek
22:04
in the chat saying, the Lions worry me. It'll be a good test for our
22:06
defense. Hey, the defense has shown that
22:09
they're up for any test versus any team,
22:12
but they haven't quite yet been tested
22:15
by an above mediocre quarterback.
22:18
>> Adam Emmert: That's exactly right. So with that said, brandon, at, three and o,
22:21
do you feel like a legit 30 or do you feel
22:24
closer to a fraudulent three and. Oh, how do you, where's your gut
22:27
on this?
22:27
>> Brandan Schulze: Oh, I feel closer.
22:30
Just my personal feelings. I feel closer like,
22:33
I, I feel like it could go badly at some point
22:36
to where we come back down to earth. Whereas
22:39
a Vikings fan, after a game like today, I'm
22:42
thinking maybe, the Vikings are legit.
22:45
Saints fell back to earth a little bit. I
22:48
think we have that ability because the offense,
22:51
I think, can score and play with anybody in any
22:53
defense. And then it's, it's a
22:56
hard, it's hard to say because, Dude, you're putting me in a tough
22:59
spot here. Come on.
23:00
>> Adam Emmert: That's okay. I just was curious what your feelings. Cause I,
23:03
For me personally, yeah. I know that
23:06
the other NFC west fans and that sort of thing are
23:09
you. Come at you. Oh, yeah. Who'd you be, your bunch of frauds?
23:14
And look, at the end of the day, are these good
23:16
teams? Absolutely not. Like, I don't think the
23:19
Patriots are going to be actually good, but they're tougher than you
23:22
think. And this version of the
23:25
Dolphins is just bad. It's,
23:28
they're in a tough spot. They emotionally, as a team, had to
23:31
be pretty low coming into this game with losing to the week
23:34
prior. you know, as far as the Broncos rookie quarterback
23:37
on the road, first go, none of the wins
23:40
are super impressive. And it's not like the Hawks went out
23:43
and just beat the brakes off of each and every one of these teams either.
23:46
So I'm not going to say it's fraudulent, but I'm not
23:48
like, we're three and o in, we're coming for
23:51
everybody scalps. Like, it doesn't quite feel that
23:54
way to me yet, but this could be the game where
23:57
they go out and really prove it. They go to four
24:00
and o here, and all of a sudden I'm
24:03
thinking division title. Like, it's within
24:06
their grasp.
24:07
>> Brandan Schulze: Yeah. They have the ability to show that they're
24:09
legit. Stopping an offense. Yeah. Because if the
24:12
defense stops an offense like the Lions and they
24:15
get after Jared Goff, which I think this defensive
24:18
line absolutely has the ability to do. Yeah,
24:21
I can feel a whole lot better. So maybe, maybe it is just
24:24
guarded. I'm not really, you know, ready
24:27
to go on one side of the fence or another, Adam. I'm
24:30
just staying guardedly optimistic that this team
24:33
is legit.
24:34
>> Adam Emmert: Yeah, that totally feels like your mo. They're not going to make a
24:36
decision, not going to, you know, do anything and have
24:39
a declaration about it. But, yeah,
24:42
I mean, these garbage teams I was seeing on one of the comments here, there we
24:45
go. From Derek. Yeah.
24:48
didn't it feel like in the, at least the last couple of years
24:51
that we'd have one of those losses,
24:54
inexplicably to a team where you're like, you got to get that one? Oh,
24:57
yeah, these were those teams and we got them all,
25:00
and that's really.
25:02
>> Brandan Schulze: A big deal, I think, and putting the
25:04
defense in tough positions and
25:07
watching them pull out of it, that's been.
25:09
>> Brandan Schulze: That's been another fun part of this, too. And then you
25:12
look over and see how the Ravens are doing. I think. Did they
25:15
actually get the win over the Cowboys? I know it got awfully close there toward
25:18
the end. They, the Cowboys pulled within three, I think, right
25:21
before we had to go live and, okay. Yeah,
25:24
they made a game of it, so it was real close.
25:27
That Ravens defense has definitely changed without Mike
25:30
McDonald there calling the shots.
25:31
>> Adam Emmert: Yeah. I mean, it's not just coach Mike,
25:34
either. Like, there's some brain drain there, right? Anthony Weaver, who we
25:37
just faced, you know, he, he left as well.
25:40
And we should probably give the Dolphins defense some
25:43
credit for making it hard on the offense there for a minute, but I'm not
25:46
going to.
25:46
>> Brandan Schulze: Well, our seahawks, they get the win at, 24 to three,
25:49
Adam, and we got this Lions game to look forward
25:52
to. And the fact that it's now going to be in
25:55
prime time. This is going to be just yet another
25:58
new test for a Mike McDonald team,
26:00
a relatively new coaching staff all
26:03
working together. They get to go and play under the
26:06
lights and do it against the Detroit Lions.
26:09
>> Adam Emmert: Yeah. Into Clinton's point in the chat,
26:12
isn't that Gino north, isn't that.
26:14
He owns Ford Field. He. He lights it up there
26:17
every single time. And, yeah, defense
26:20
plan well. Gino playing well. Just get that run
26:23
game going a little bit, and all of a sudden,
26:26
I'm, I'm dreaming.
26:27
>> Brandan Schulze: Big mike in the chat. Holy flag fest. Yes.
26:30
That.
26:30
I feel like that describes this game perfectly.
26:33
It. For two quarters, it was almost
26:36
unwatchable with the number of
26:38
flags that came in. A, number of. I forget
26:41
how many were just procedural penalties
26:44
on the day, whether it was. Yeah. Dudes lining up, whether it was
26:47
special teams, whether it was offense. So
26:50
many penalties.
26:52
>> Adam Emmert: Yeah. Some weird officiating moments throughout the game,
26:55
too. For example, like, did it help that
26:58
they didn't call roughing, out of bounds at all today?
27:01
Yeah, that helped. how many times did we push their
27:04
dudes while out of bounds and never a flag? That was nice, I
27:06
guess. and then watching Mike McDaniel have a
27:09
freaking hissy fit meltdown, over
27:12
another procedural penalty. Plus, they kind of whistled it dead.
27:15
And you could see him, on the screen. It's like, that's catfish
27:18
twice and, like, so bad.
27:21
It was fun.
27:21
>> Brandan Schulze: Eleven penalties for 85 yards for the
27:24
Dolphins. Eleven penalties for 92 yards
27:27
for the Seahawks. 22 penalties
27:30
called, and those are just the accepted
27:32
penalties?
27:33
>> Adam Emmert: Yeah. Yeah. I I wish the Seahawks could
27:36
have gotten it together a little bit more and scored just one
27:39
more time, you know, before going into that fourth quarter to
27:42
really make it an easy cruise. And not only that, but up
27:45
17 three at the end of the first quarter. I had the
27:48
Seahawks for over 24 and a half on our betting show this
27:51
week, and I was like, oh, I'm hitting that
27:53
easy. Here we go. Nope.
27:56
And then they kneeled out at midfield right at the end of the game, too,
27:59
so it hurt my feelings.
28:01
>> Brandan Schulze: Yeah, that's a tough one when it's when, when
28:04
you get 17 points in the first quarter. And I think
28:07
that Seahawks fans as a whole were kind of feeling
28:10
that, too, because if you were able to put up that many points
28:13
right away, you're like, why don't we just keep scoring? Can
28:16
we just not keep scoring? Because we, we did it in the first quarter. Let's just keep
28:19
doing that.
28:19
>> Adam Emmert: Yeah. but no, we, we couldn't keep doing that.
28:22
We had to let, the dolphins hang around, maybe just
28:25
give them some false hope so that you could crush, it going
28:28
down the stretch and make it even tougher plane ride back
28:31
to Miami. And honestly, on the inside, that gives me a
28:34
warm fuzzy. I don't even mind that so much.
28:36
>> Brandan Schulze: You must be feeling crushed as a Dolphins
28:39
fan after a game like this because, yeah,
28:42
I mean, you, you watch Skyler Thompson come in and be,
28:45
you know, he completed some passes, 13 to 19, and then
28:48
Tim Boyle comes in. Now you're down to Tim Boyle. Yeah,
28:51
I'm with Sojin. I wanted a 40 burger to hang it on the
28:54
Dolphins with the three points. That would have felt like a more
28:56
complete game.
28:58
>> Adam Emmert: Absolutely. But, hey, we get another
29:00
dub and it was honestly a fairly
29:03
easy watch, in terms of stress. I'll
29:06
take that. When's the last time we've had that? And watching
29:09
everybody else in the division except for the Rams,
29:11
winning. I mean, it's a perfect day, dude.
29:14
Perfect day.
29:15
>> Brandan Schulze: Perfect day for our Seahawks, perfect day
29:18
for Seahawks fans. And we will be back next
29:21
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29:24
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29:27
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29:52
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29:55
Lots of stuff coming up as we lead into
29:58
going toward four and o.
29:59
>> Adam Emmert: Adam hopefully going to four and o. And
30:02
if, I just wanted to give james's little
30:05
airbnb a shout out, only because he just finished it. It's
30:08
brand new. It's ready to rock. If you're coming to montana and you're
30:11
looking for a killer place to stay. Hilltop cabin, lookout
30:14
at rock creek. Check it out. And, hey,
30:16
man, we won big today. Maybe I have to
30:19
go over there again next weekend, because maybe that's where the good
30:22
juju is.
30:23
>> Brandan Schulze: You never know. You, you always, always want to make sure that you keep up those
30:26
streaks, though, because one of us may have
30:29
the impact, may have the good juju, and you
30:32
never want to lose it.
30:33
>> Adam Emmert: That's right. So, man three and o. It
30:36
feels damn good. And I think with that, there's only one
30:39
thing left to say. Go, Hawks. Go,
30:41
Hawkshe.